Homer's Odyssey-Personal Narrative

The story of Odyssey comes from a time when storytellers spread tales of heroes and heroic deeds. The Greeks have been known to tell their stories of their heroes in oral tradition. The first few lines of the Odyssey is the narrator asking a Muse to help him tell the story of Odysseus. The story is also filled with dialogue, which might indicate that it is a form of theatre and that these lines were performed orally. From the first few lines, the Odyssey could be recognized as a story that is told rather then read.

On a ten-year voyage across cold and choppy seas with nothing but the bitter wind at one’s back, physical strength is a necessity. The chances of successfully trekking home with weak limbs are not great. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus is the epitome of power. His brawny physique undoubtedly grants him the strength to swim, climb, run and even kill his way back to his wife. But Odysseus cannot return home on physical force alone, as many of the obstacles he faces are mental. Perhaps the greatest of these obstacles is temptation. The "battle-weary" man’s odyssey is brimming with temptations of the mind, body and soul that he must not only grow out of, but conquer, in order to return home and stake his glory.

“Then, then in the same breath Zeus hit the craft with a lightning-bolt and thunder. Round she spun, reeling under the impact, filled with reeking brimstone, shipmates pitching out of her, bobbing round like Seahawks swept along by the whitecaps past the trim black hull— and the god cut short their journey home forever (Book XII)”. The reason for Zeus destroyed Odysseus ship and killed all his men was because he wanted revenge for his men killing the golden cattle of Helios. Helios gets mad and asked Zeus for revenge, because Zeus is the most powerful

The crew is convinced to do so by a shipmate named Eurylochos.“ “My friends,” he [Eurylochos] said, “you are in a bad way… the most pitiable death of all is to starve. Come along let us drive off the best of these cattle… I choose rather to die once with a mouthful of salt than to be slowly squeezed out in a desert island,”” (Homer 144, 145). In retaliation, Helios asks Zeus to destroy their ship. He says, ““Father Zeus, and all ye gods that live forever! Punish those men of Odysseus Laertiades!”” (145). Zeus replies, ““I will soon strike the ship with a thunderbolt, and smash it into smithereens in the middle of the sea!”” (145). In this case, I believe the vengeance sought is justified because the crew was warned many times and were aware of the consequences, yet they chose to ignore Odysseus’

Since Odysseus wants to return home, he would be most fortunate to have help getting him home quickly. In fact, Poseidon tries to prevent his return entirely or delay it as long as possible (228). Clearly Odysseus is not lucky to have Poseidon’s interference. Furthermore, one would want all of one’s crew to survive the journey. However, Zeus strikes Odysseus and his men with a thunderbolt, causing their ship to wreck (283-284). Obviously, this shows that Odysseus has the misfortune to have Zeus interfere with his life. Odysseus is not lucky to have the help of gods and

As the day I awoke, I've known that my father has died and how it happened was a tragedy. I had a vision last night that I was being taken to Agamemnon. I knew that this was true, it was that I saw it coming. "I will be Agamemnon's to be bride" I shouted in my head. I only thought of what has happened so far. I was panicking over the war. My mother queen Hecuba was worrying over us, I couldn't bare to watch my mother die, as I already saw of her fate. As we all were being taken to a man to tell us what will happen to us all. I heard the man say that my mother was going to be Odysseus slave. I heard her plead as much as she can to not be his slave, but nothing helped.

Conversely, Odysseus feels a weight on his shoulder and I can’t understand why, as I only was helping him reach home. The directions I gave were to sail to Hades and speak with Tiresias, who will aid him from there. Accordingly, Odysseus tells his men the course, and they believe it is neither achievable nor safe. Moreover, Odysseus audaciously decided to trust me and enters the underworld. Considering Odysseus was a courageous person, I wasn’t surprised he went on the mentally and physically challenging journey.

This was the most action-packed day of Daryn’s life. He had been playing baseball for a couple years now. He had really enjoyed it and loved playing the game. Today was the middle of the season for the Trojans. He felt today, something bad was going to happen. His stomach was flipping from side to side. Nerves were getting to him and he was starstruck.

Anastasia and Andrew went through the mirrors to go to earth. They met Jason in Rose and William's cabin. Hello, kids. Jason said. Hello, Mr. Anderson. Anastasia and Andrew said. Please called me Jason. Mom and dad fill me in. Guess Elizabeth did not want to leave her mother. Jason said. I think your brother might have threatened her. Anastasia said. I do not think my brother threatened her. I think one of your uncles might have threatened her. Jason said. Does your brother know where you at? Anastasia ask. No, he does not. Jason said. You see my brother think I am dead. You see we were at war with another dimension in Saturn. The city is called Pearl City. I was in Pearl City to negotiate for your Uncle Alex. Your Uncle James wants to control

Today, on October 11, Mrs.Johnston gave me one of the hardest essays of my life. I have to write about how my life can relate to "The Odyssey." In The Odyssey, Odysseus had trouble getting home and I'm having trouble writing this paper. Everything got harder as i remembered that it was due tomorrow.

So me and Hades start to have a little fight, of course everyone at this, now lame, party is around us in a circle waiting for either someone to get knocked out or to see if I die. I’m going to tell you straight up, I was fucked. And not the fact that i’m wasted, but the fact that it’s Hades i’m fighting and that he can kill me with a single

“No! Why would anyone do that? If this monster Hades has done this he has done it not for me, but for himself. I will not be responsible for the death of millions!” I knew I was being unladylike in my rage, but I couldn’t even fathom what I was hearing. There was

Demeter searches for Persephone but the only person who actually saw the whole ideal was Helios, the god of the sun. Helios tells Demeter the whole story about how Zeus gave permission for Hades to take Persephone. Hades of course very happy to take advantage of the situation. He kidnapped Persephone and took her to the underworld. Demeter is speechless. She couldn’t believe that Zeus had betrayed her and gave away their only daughter.

So he found his cleanest togas and put them on, and set out for a long journey to Mount Olympus. But while he was traveling a young maiden caught his eye. She had beautiful blue eyes, and was wearing a white toga with shimmers at the top, she also had beautiful brown curls that drooped over her shoulders. She was working with her mother with house chores. Hades couldn’t find the courage to talk to her so he just stood in his chariot and watched the young maiden. When she looked up at him she smiled with her very white teeth and went back to the house chores. Hades didn’t know what was going on. He felt nice and comfortable out of the underworld after she looked at him. He quickly rode away in his golden chariot as fast as he could because he didn’t like what was happening to him. Finally Hades made it to the gathering, but he was late, so when he walked in everyone was looking at him. Zeus started the music again and everyone went back to talking. Zeus walked over to Hades and asked why he was, so late, but all Hades could say was ‘’I got sidetracked, sorry.’’ Zeus was very surprised that he heard that come out of his mouth so he didn’t know what was happening to Hades

Perseus, Macaria and Triton had arrived in the underworld to meet Hades. Macaria said to her father, “I need your help father to be able to attack Kronos.” Hades said, “ You do not need my help, because it is not my responsibility.” The three walked away and prepared to go to Tartarus. Before they left Perseus sharpened his sword, Triton prepared his trident and Macaria