Life Lessons Learned In Homer's The Odyssey

All heroes around the world go through a journey of their own. Those journeys can be a physical, , mental, emotional journey, and lots more. These types of personal journeys are demonstrated in an epic poem, The Odyssey, by Homer, an interview, The Hero’s adventure by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, a short poem, Courage by Anne Sexton, a graphic novel, The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds. They all show how journeys can be transformative and show a person’s strengths and/or weaknesses.

A hero isn’t shaped by his strengths but by the values he possesses. Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, reveals the moral and ethical constitution of the ancient Greeks. Over time, certain cultures have grown to value a number of human characteristics. Those who acquire such values become respected heroes. After the fall of Troy, the protagonist of the epic, Odysseus, set sail for his home, Ithaca, where his faithful wife and son were waiting for him. Over the course of his journey, Odysseus faced some of the most ferocious opponents known to the Greeks. Even through this formidable journey, Odysseus and his family have stayed true to the diverse aspects of the ancient Greeks. The Odyssey exemplifies the human ideals of hospitality, loyalty and

The monsters of Homer’s The Odyssey as written by Robert Fitzgerald all share traits in common, but there is always the small differences which make each close encounter more gripping than the last. When the not-so-glorious Odysseus, son of Laertes just manages to elude the cannibalistic clutches of the blinded Kyklops (IX) and takes to the high seas, he becomes arrogant and taunts his nemesis. He does not realize this, but the very words he uttered then sets the holy executioner upon the necks of his crew. Every island he passes or makes port at, his men become feasts for native monsters; however upon the beautiful island of Aiolia his men are not eaten, nor do they die at the hands of any mortal or immortal foe. What is so significant

Sometimes life lessons are learned the hard way. Unfortunately for me, this is how I learned mine. I do not mean to make this sad and depressing, but this is the truth.

In college, one of the big things you end up learning is life lessons and also learning from your mistakes in general. In the book “The Odyssey of Homer” by Richard Lattimore, there are many life lessons that Odysseus and his crew show to the readers. One of the main life lessons that college students learn is the lesson of self control.

T. shows the theme of relationship of man to God when he prayed to Athena to retrieve her help, and as a reward of doing all good she appears to help his cry. “…

The Odysseus who leaves Troy changes into a completely different man before he arrives at his home in Ithaca. The hero endures many trials and tribulations induced by the menis of Poseidon, but learns from his mistakes and matures much through his trek. Poseidon serves as a symbol of the supernatural and the threatening. In a way, he is the abusive, but pedagogic father. It is Poseidon who keeps Odysseus in the face of danger, and it is Poseidon who keeps him suffering. Until the seventh year of Calypso, Athena does nothing and observes patiently. She is the gentle and guiding mother. She stops the father from killing the son, but lets the son gain wisdom through his suffering. It is only when the hero gains enough wisdom that she allows

In the book The Odyssey, by Homer(translated by Robert Fagles), the main character named Odysseus has just fought in the Trojan War. He has traveled many places, showing the reader many different aspects of his personality. This includes his positive and negative characteristics. Throughout the novel the most common trait was his incredible wisdom.

Things were looking dire from the second the ship left the hangar. Great, he's flying me to my death. Surely this was all part of his plan. Steal a ship, sneak out in the confusion of the attack, and rejoin his kind with whatever military secrets he managed to steal. Hades really did want to follow through with his earlier threat, but he doubted he could fly the ship by himself, and the emergency autopilot wouldn't be able to get him away from this mess, anyhow.

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.

The Odyssey: Wisdoms not Heeded Through both the raging seas and curious lands Odysseus traverses in the Odyssey, wisdoms can be found from both gods and mortals alike. Yet, often these wisdoms are ignored and disaster strikes because of it. One such occasion is faced when Athena advises him at the horizon of his journey home. She looked upon his crew and warned that they would someday be his folly, and that he loved them too much. Odysseus scoffed at the idea, but soon he would see them in the same light as the wise goddess.

“I'm not a fighter, only a blacksmith and I do not care to live forever, however, I do believe in your dream and I will gladly forge new weapons for you, if it becomes essential to fulfill your vision.”

People learn lessons every day. They can either learn them the easy way, or they can learn them the hard way. Homer documented Odysseus’ journey back to Ithaca in The Odyssey. In this journey, Odysseus learns several life lessons that applied to our lives.

Odysseus left Calypso’s Island and began his journey back home. His odyssey might be described as one’s own life struggles. There are ups and downs to every situation, and through reading The Odyssey, readers can connect parallels between Odysseus’ experiences and lessons learned in their own life. Human weaknesses can still prevail through even the strongest men you may think of; examples of this are shown in this epic. Even though there is a large gap in space between Odysseus’ travels and the present, human nature and weakness still share the same obstacles.

Odysseus, lord of the isle of Ithaca, has been missing from his kingdom for twenty years. The first ten were spent fighting in the Trojan War, and the next ten were spent in continual wanderings en route home from the war. His wife Penelope, meanwhile, has been harassed by dozens of suitors who have come to win her hand in marriage. Penelope, desperately clinging to the hope that her husband is still alive, tries to stall the suitors by making them an idle promise: she will choose a husband from among them when she has finished weaving a burial shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes, who presently lives on a farm removed from the main city. However, when alone at night, Penelope secretly undoes the work of the shroud so that the fabrication