Phoinix and the heralds to Achilles tent to ask him to come back to war and fight if he gets twelve gift in return. On this very night, Achilles refuses and shows no pity for the unsuccessful Achaean army. Achilleus reveals that his mother, Thetis advised him that if he stays in Troy, he will have a short but glorious life, but if he goes home, he will have a long life without glory.
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of both Agamemnon and Achilles is so much they can never make an agreement and are continually arguing. They both believe they are better than the other, and always seem to find something to conflict about. The rivalry between Agamemnon and Achilles affects the conduct of the Trojan war because they make the war longer, they cause the killing of other men, and them hating each other causes more conflicts than the original reason the war even started. Agamemnon and Achilles make the war last longer
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The Odyssey, written by the poet Homer, examines the theme of xenia and the importance of following cultural norms throughout the texts. Xenia demonstrates the way guests and travelers should be treated when they arrive at a host’s house or land, including and not limited to feeding the guests, providing them with entertainment, and giving a sacrifice to the gods. Essentially, it is a form of politesse and hospitality imposed as a social norm for travelers and hosts in Greek mythology. Violations
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A portion of The Odyssey that creates a train of thought for me is Odysseus’ journey into and the escape from Polyphemus’ cave. In this cave, the reader can see many of the elements that make Odysseus into the nuanced protagonist that he is. When Odysseus first enters the cave of Polyphemus, he expects that he and his men will be treated to xenia, the Greek custom of hospitality to guests. However, his men had encouraged him to “let them help themselves to the cheeses and be off” (104). His men
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The book of The Odyssey starts off the ninth book with Odysseus introducing himself of his traits and what he did. It then skimmed through the war and talked about overcoming obstacles that the movie didn’t show. Some obstacles were explained less drastically making it calm compared to some of the other ones. The text version was lengthy compared to the movie since the movie only featured the scenes with action, suspense, and story. The book also shows Odysseus doing actions that would require
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You will lie and steal and kill and all that would be pardoned, reciprocated or paid for. The shield of Achilles warms the reader with luxurious detail and painstaking rhetoric of the land of Greece? Where women are seen dancing and waiting for the men on the threshold of the houses and where the heavens are blessed by the cosmos and the sun and the moon with no quarrel or envy between them. The city is described as full of bustling citizens alive and bursting with emotion. One of those emotions
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Odysseus is he a great leader or not? Some people may argue that odysseus is a great leader or a terrible one. As a tragic hero, Odysseus contains tragic flaws, which include pride and quick tempered; these flaws negatively impact the story by getting his men and boat killed on their adventure and he was lost at sea for 20 years. A tragic hero is described as a selfless and heroic person. Odysseus is a tragiv hero because he fights his temptation to eat circe's food to save his men from her spell
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Emotions at any given moment can cause one to act against one’s own morals because powerful emotions have the ability to overthrow common sense and control. Emotions are part of human nature and may benefit someone, but they become detrimental when they trap a person’s mind. In Homer’s Odyssey, the flawed epic hero, Odysseus, acts against his morals because of his emotions. In one example, Odysseus escapes the island of the Cyclops and taunts Polyphemus as his ship departs. Odysseus loses control
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1. Both Helen and Menelaus described Odysseus was a courageous and impressive hero. Additionally, they refer to him as a wondrous person who can achieve (and already has achieved) extraordinary feats. When Helen described Odysseus, she told Telemachus how Odysseus disguised himself as a poor slave to hoodwink the Trojans. "He had, first, given himself an outrageous beating and thrown some rags on–like a household slave–then slipped into that city of wide lanes among his enemies." (pg. 60) Odysseus
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In The Odyssey, Odysseus shows many heroic traits. The one heroic trait that stood out the most to me was self-sacrifice. The first episode that Odysseus shows self-sacrifice when he goes last out of the Cyclopes cave. He comes up with the plan to tie his men to the bottom of sheep to escape the cyclops (personally I would rather be crushed and eaten by the cyclops in the most brutal way possible than be tied to animal but that’s irrelevant). Odysseus also held on to the leader sheep and went last
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