...In Homer’s The Odyssey, Telemachus shows many emotions, a few of these being helplessness, encouragement, and then he finally shows the abandonment of hope, also, other people commented on the fact that Telemachus has no one to protect him from the world without his father. Telemachus shows helplessness when he first spots the goddess Athena in Odysseus’ halls, “He could almost see his magnificent father, here… in the mind’s eye- if only he might drop from the clouds and drive these suitors all in a rout throughout the halls” (1. 134-136) Telemachus shows helplessness by imagining that he sees his father in the halls, instead of Athena because, he believes that his father could drive away all of his mother, Penelope’s, suitors who wish to marry her since they assume Odysseus is dead....
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...In Homer’s The Odyssey, Xenia is a reoccurring topic between characters. While sitting with the suitors and Athena, Telemachus is daydreaming with grief. When he looks at Athena, he stands up, holds her right hand and says “Greetings, stranger! Here in our house you’ll find a royal welcome. Have supper first, then tell us what you need.” (1.144-6). Telemachus is very welcoming in giving Athena food and anything she needs from him. Nestor and his sons are sitting while friends are setting up the banquet with roasted meats and skewered strips. As soon as they see the strangers, “all came crowding down, waving them on in welcome, urging them to sit. Nestor’s son Pisistratus, first to reach them, grasped their hands and sat them down at the feast...
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....Homer’s life is a shadow in the mists of ancient history. All that we know for certain about him is that he composed two of the greatest epics in world literature, The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as several hymns to the gods. The content, ideals, and style of his epics formed the basis of Greek education in the classical age of Socrates, Plato, Sophocles, and Aristotle and influenced the course of western literature for centuries to come. .......The Iliad and The Odyssey stand as two of the greatest works ever composed. They have influenced writers throughout the ages for the beauty and power of their imagery, for their character development, for the universality of their themes, and for their extraordinary stories. They take their place alongside the Bible, Sophocles’ Oedipus the Rex, Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Tolstoy’s War and Peace as among the most popular and most highly praised literary works in history. Remarkably, Homer had no authors to imitate, no prototypical literature to guide him, for literature—indeed, civilization itself—was still in its infancy when he composed his works. He was the world's first great writer, a model for others to imitate. .......Scholars conjecture from scraps of evidence that Homer was a blind poet who may have been born on the island of Chios (also spelled in English as Khios) in the Aegean Sea; in Smyrna, a seaport in western Turkey; in Colophon, near Ephesus, Turkey; on Rhodes, an...
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