Essays on The Odyssey

Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey are poems centered around the events of the Trojan War. The Iliad recounts the events from the Trojan War during the final weeks whereas The Odyssey is a sequel telling the story of Odysseus and his journey back home....

The archetypal villain is crucial for the story to continue because the villain guides the hero to the next part of their story, the villain reveals the hero’s weaknesses and faults, and without the villain, the hero wouldn’t be a hero.  Any form of literature...

One of the most common translations of the First Noble Truth of Buddhism is “existence is suffering”, implying that to exist, to be alive, brings on pain, loss, grieving, and suffering. Reading Homer’s Odyssey and analyzing the characters, one thing is evident – human suffering...

Stories are often passed down from generation to generation. Literature was often taught verbally rather than written in olden times, like the author Homer. Homer was an author mostly known for his Epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. These literary works were primarily passed down...

The story of Niobe, as told by Achilles in book twenty-four of the Iliad, is related to Priam for the purpose of making the latter eat, though he is grieving the loss of Hector, whose body he has come to ransom. This tale can be...

In both Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid, destiny and free will are both significant. Destiny is unchangeable, it may seem like a coincidence, but it is something no person controls for oneself, but within the destiny, you do have a choice. Free will is defined...

“Greece, sound, thy Homer’s, Rome thy Virgil’s name…”(Milton 16). Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid were important books to the cultures of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. Homer and Virgil were both classical poets and authors who utilized various techniques to enrapture their audiences...

Homer is the staggering maker of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic melodies that are the central works of old Greek composition. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year assault of the city of Troy by a partnership of Greek domains....

People relate to various things throughout their lives. One of the most common things that people relate to is characters they see in movies, read about in books and poetry and view in theatre. In part it is how we learn and interact with one...

More specifically, what exactly Herodotus is trying to achieve when including Homer and his works. Although Herodotus highly praises Homer throughout his Histories, he also establishes critical distance, separating himself from Homer. This is likely to appreciate the genius of Homer whilst setting himself off...