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"Homer's The Odyssey is among the most durable and malleable stories ever told. It seems natural for The Odyssey to be recast as a Canadian film. This essay will not discuss casting or directors in detail, but rather be a light treatment of the story for the film. With a major film-adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road hitting the screen this year, the time is ripe for The Odyssey to enjoy a similar retelling. Set in a post-apocalyptic Canada, Odysseus has been seeing action in Ottawa for the last decade. Ottawa is Troy, and Victoria, BC, is Ithaca. "

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Homer's The Odyssey is among the most durable and malleable stories ever told. It seems natural for The Odyssey to be recast as a Canadian film. This essay will not discuss casting or directors in detail, but rather be a light treatment of the story for the film. With a major film-adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road hitting the screen this year, the time is ripe for The Odyssey to enjoy a similar retelling. Set in a post-apocalyptic Canada, Odysseus has been seeing action in Ottawa for the last decade. Ottawa is Troy, and Victoria, BC, is Ithaca. There is no more digital communication or standardized national

Tags:homer, odyssey, setting

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This paper examines the different moral values presented in the epic poem, "The Odyssey" by Homer and the ways in which these values are presented through some of the characters. It shows that while the "Odyssey" is indeed a moral epic, the moral position of the main characters themselves, namely Odysseus and the Gods, can at times be questionable. It evaluates how the "Odyssey" seems to portray the idea that obstacles and hardship arise out of moral weakness, self-control is overwhelmingly important and sufferings come about when a person gives in to temptation as well as love and the importance of family and home.

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"Another moral element present in the poem is "dike". Justice. In the end, evil will be punished. Good will triumph. Odysseus murders all the suitors and his disloyal servants. It has often been debated whether his actions were justified. Based on the moral value of "dike", the poet obviously meant the murders to be justified. Evil must be punished, and what better way than to have evil punished by good. The suitors had broken many moral laws. They courted the wife of a great hero, made themselves at home in his palace, ate his food, slept with his servants and conspired to kill his son. They had to receive their punishment, their "nemesis"- retribution from the Gods. "

Tags:epic, odysseus, odyssey, god, evil, temptation

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The paper questions whether the "Odyssey", the second volume of Homer's work about the Trojan War, was written by a woman. This paper examines the question of the authorship of the "Odyssey", and the "Iliad", by citing examples from the latter, and analyzes if they show thinking and assumptions which might be more likely to come from a woman. Finally, the paper concludes that Homer, whoever he or she was, or they were, gave us something to think about.

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"Was the Odyssey, the second volume of Homer's work about the Trojan War, written by a woman? The basic assumption behind this debate lies in the fact that historians know virtually nothing about Homer, the assumed author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey". What little we know comes from Greek writers several centuries later. Homer is described as a blind poet, or singer, one of a group that traveled around ancient Greece reciting long narrative poetry. Even here, "Homer" is sometimes considered a convenient..."

Tags:odyssey, iliad, women

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This paper discusses a stanza from Homer's "Odyssey", Book 11, identifying the meter and talking about the symbolism and other features of the stanza.

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"This stanza starts with Odysseus' mother talking to him and explaining her death and then Odysseus relates to Tiresias how he had tried to embrace her but could not hold onto her spirit. What the stanza reveals about Odysseus is that he has strong family ties and both loves and respects his mother. The significance of the encounter within his journey is essentially as a plot device to update the reader on what has happened in his absence, without introducing lengthy additional verbiage. It is..."

Tags:The Odyssey, Homer, Book 11, meter, stanza, poet, poetry, epic poem

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This paper includes a summary of Homer's "The Odyssey" followed by summaries of four essays by various scholars critiquing some aspect of the book. This is followed by a section in which a response is mounted to the four essays.

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""The Odyssey" is an epic poem by Homer that features a struggle by Odysseus to get home after a lengthy adventure at the same time that his wife Penelope and son Telemachus are dealing with problems of their own at home. Odysseus has fought in the Trojan War and has been gone for so long that Penelope is besieged with suitors offering her their hand in marriage and consuming the household's food and drink. Telemachus, just a baby when Odysseus left, is now coming into..."

Tags:Homer, The Odyssey, Achilles, The Iliad, epic, poem, poetry, critique

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In this paper, the loyal heroism of Odysseus in The Iliad directly contrasts the far more hedonistic infidelity that is part of the long journey home in The Odyssey. Homer reveals the varying levels of heroism that Odysseus imparts, as he is a different man off the battlefield, as when he is on the battlefield. Homer depicts Odysseus as a man loyal at any cost to the greater good, but when he is not obliged to adhere to this higher authority.

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Tags:iliad, odyssey, war

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This paper examines Arthur Clarke's science fiction novel "2001: A Space Odyssey." This paper considers the three stages of technology described and then analyzes whether the technology is extraterrestrial in origin or not.

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"Analyze in detail the three stages of technology presented in the novel and conclude with your thoughts on the concept that the origin and cultivation of technology is extraterrestrial. In Arthur C. Clarke's novel "A Space Odyssey" the idea of technological innovation is explored in great detail. Clarke presents three different stages of technological advancement and explores the consequences of each."

Tags:clarke, 2001, odyssey, technology, innovation, novel, extraterrestrial, danger

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This comparative paper addresses similarities between the characters, plot, and settings of the two writings. It goes into great detail in each instance of parallelism between "The Mill on The Floss" and "The Odyssey and The Iliad". Temptation and suffering are important themes that both Homer and Eliot consider important aspects of plot development and structure. The writer shows that character parallels exist between the two texts because of Eliot's intentional assignment of roles from other texts to her characters.

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"Parallels deal with the interactions between similar entities. Parallelism is typically defined as the quality or condition of being similar; a corresponding relationship. Further defined, parallelism is also a likeness or similarity in aspect, course, or tendency. Connection is defined as an association or relationship of a reference or relation to something else."

Tags:eliot, floss, george, homer, ilead, mill, odyssey, parallelism

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This paper compares and contrasts the stories of two heroes returning from war, as expressed in Homer's Odyssey. The paper describes the differences in family life in the two stories. The paper explains that Agamemnon left for battle, sacrificing his daughter. As a result, Agamemnon's homecoming is a tragedy. His wife has been unfaithful and wants to avenge her daughter. By contrast, the paper explains, Odysseus goes through many trials and tribulations before he is able to return home. The author explains, though, that once he arrives at home, he finds a faithful wife with whom he is able to rebuild a good family life.

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"Aeschylus and Homer portray two different versions of a post-war homecoming by the central protagonists of the texts "Agamemnon" and "The Odyssey." Agamemnon and Odysseus are both Greek generals who fought successfully in the Trojan War. Both men are kings. While the dramatist Aeschylus portrays an ungrateful homecoming on the part of the central protagonist's wife, and dramatizes a dark prophesy of death that is ultimately fulfilled, as well as stresses the inevitability of fate at the hands of vengeful women, Homer shows a far different possibility for a wartime homecoming. Homer shows how unexpected happy endings can occur, despite the persistent influence of the gods in human affairs. Homer depicts a loyal wife and son waiting for the main protagonist, upon Odysseus' return from the Trojan War. These different family portraits suggest that in Aeschylus' point of view, war destroys family alliances and a true post-war homecoming that recaptures the past is impossible, given the moral as well as territorial destruction of war. But Homer suggests, even though years may be lost, there is still a family bond that can be sustained, despite years of separation."

Tags:Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Homer, Odyssey

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This paper discusses the text of Homer's "Odyssey". The paper suggests that a close reading of the text reveals that Homer favored guests who were well behaved and hosts who were willing to treat their guests with respect no matter their social standing. It uses this understanding of the text to demonstrate just how fickle the ancient Greek gods.

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"To say that Homer's Odyssey portrays different attitudes among gods and men would be an understatement. The suffering that Ulysses endures at the hands of several different gods--most notably Poseidon--is juxtaposed against helpfulness from other gods--including Athena and Hermes. Reading the Odyssey only serves to demonstrate just how fickle the ancient Greek gods were in the eyes of at least one traveling bard. Nowhere is this more evident than in the differing way that guests and hosts behave throughout the epic. It is also clear, given Homer's treatment of this behavior, that the author had his own preference for which kind of behaviors were more acceptable than others. A close reading of the text reveals that Homer favored guests who were well behaved and hosts who were willing to treat their guests with respect no matter their social standing."

Tags:homer, odyssey, ulysses