Similarities Between The Odyssey And Perseus

King Acrisius was king of Argos. He had an amazingly beautiful daughter, but he wished deeply for a son, so he prayed to the gods for them to give him a son. Apollo,the god of culture and prophecy, told him that he will never have a son in all his days and that the son of his daughter will slay him. Acrisius thinks of just killing his daughter,Danae, to prevent his prophecy, but fears of the punishment he will receive from the gods for this act, so he instead locks his daughter in an entirely bronze house and guards it closely. What he did not expect is for the king of the gods Zeus to come directly to his daughter and impregnate her. From this comes a son named Perseus. When Acrisius learns of his daughter's offspring, he puts both Perseus and Danae in a trunk and sets it off into the ocean. By luck or by the will of Zeus Perseus and Danae wash up onto a small island, where a kind hearted fisherman named Dictys takes in the two strangers. They live contently with Dictys until Dictys' brother, King Polydectes, fell in love with Danae. He decides to construe a plot to get rid of her son,Perseus, so that he can have her. The plan he comes is to convince Perseus to go and slay the woman-beast Medusa. He thinks this feat impossible by a mortal man, because any man who lays eyes upon her turns to stone. To aid him on his quest Hermes gives him a sword stronger than that of Medusa's scale. He also told him he would need equipment from the nymphs of the north, who's location was unknown by all except the Gray Women who are ray and live in gray.The three sisters share one eye between them all and

Hades as the shadow, who represents the bad guy, and tries to defeat the hero and prevent him to achieve his goal, appears and massacred the soldiers. While he destroyed them, he also destroyed the fishing boat which led Perseus' family to death. Perseus tries to save his family, but with no success. That event took his life out of balance and led him to his journey, chasing Hades to avenge his family's death.

On Perseus’ journey for Medusa’s head it was very much expected that he would fail and die, which was Polydectes goal. But in the end he prevailed and completed the mission, due to the fact that he had the luck and support of the Gods on his side. Throughout his voyage he was aided by the support of Hermes and Athena. This can be seen in Perseus’ use of Athena’s shield and Hermes’ sword that he used to attack Medusa. Also, without the help of Hermes, Perseus wouldn’t have been able to find the nymphs of the North, whose gifts (winged sandals, magic wallet, and an invisible cap) also aided him in the defeat of Medusa.

He also took one cyclopes eye out of the socket. Book 10 summary In this book Odysseus and his men first landed on the island of Aeolus and stay there for a month with the wind king. Odysseus is given two gifts from King Aeolus: west winds to blow their ship towards home and a bag to hold the stormy winds. Odysseus' men opened the bag while Odysseus slept and this causes them to sail back to the island where Aeolus refuses to help them again because he believes Odysseus has been cursed by the gods.

When he is almost home, Poseidon sees him and sends a storm that destroys and sinks his raft. Ino helps Odysseus by giving him her veil, which protects him from the water. After two days of swimming, Odysseus reaches the Phaeacians and their kind king, Alcinous. The king’s daughter, Nausicaa, finds Odysseus and takes him to the king. Odysseus expalins how he and his crew first saw the Lotus-Eaters, then they docked in front of a cave to search for food. There was wine, food, and pens full of

The fable is “Heroes Every Child Should Know Perseus” this fable had the people cherish their things and use them appropriately like Perseus. Perseus had to go on a quest to defeat an evil enemy named MEDUSA she was a very ugly lady who had lots of fangs on her head and Perseus had to cut her head off. He was nervous about it but he accepted the task so he was given lots of equipment to help him like a sword that can cut off medusa’s head and some sandals that could make him fly all the way to Medusa. When he was fighting Medusa he remembered everything that he had and the advice he got so that in the end he had cut off Medusa’s head and had survived this very frightening mission. In this myth Perseus used his things appripriatly and use them usefully, unlike the other fables that had people disrespecting their things.

Odysseus and his men land on the shore of cyclops island. They get trapped in a cave by Polyphemus, the cyclops son of Poseidon. Odysseus tells the cyclops

So, when it came to giving a gift to the King for his wedding he was poor, and could not give a gift. Instead of a gift, he offered his services to the King. The king decided to send Perseus off to slay Medusa. And bring her head back as a gift. Perseus uses his shield to see

After reaching the island, the time has come for him to reach his ultimate boon, to kill Medusa. With the help of Athena Perseus “cuts through her neck and… seized the head.” (Hamilton 204). With that one slice, Perseus is now known as a hero, and can even rescue his mother. The head also allows Perseus to get revenge on Polydectes, and bring Dictys to

There was a king named Acrisius, he had a beautiful daughter named Danae. The oracle of Apollo told Acrisius that Danae's son would

Within the myth of Perseus, the plot generally follows the structure of the archetypal hero’s journey. These aspects can be clearly identified throughout the lifetime of Perseus.

In like manner, when Odysseus and his men were on the island of Thrinacia and were

In Ovid Metamorphoses, the Roman literature described the ruthless act of Pluto of rape, to seize and carry away Proserpine without the consent of Ceres and in parallel in the Homeric Hymns of Demeter; Persephone was seized and carried away by Hades without the consent of Demeter. The invariant theme that was identified in both the Greek and Roman literature was the loss of innocence of Persephone/Proserpine. Despite the various differences the story was presented, it reinforced the innocence that was stolen from the god of the underworld, Hades or also known as Pluto. Throughout this paper, it will discuss the similar characteristics of the two myths such as the motive that led and encouraged the god of the underworld to kidnap

King Acrisius of Argos was told that his daughter, Danae, would have a son that would kill him. So, to avoid being killed, he locked Danae up in a bronze chamber. One day, in the form of a shower of gold, Zeus visited her and she later bore his son, Perseus. When Acrisius found out that Perseus was born, he cast them away at sea in a chest. after floating for a while, they reached land where a man freed them from the chest and they lived on the island. The island’s leader, Polydectes, didn’t notice them at first until Perseus was all grown up. Polydectes fell in love with Danae but didn’t want anything to do with Perseus. So, he told him that for a wedding gift, he wanted a gorgon. Perseus agreed and set off on a journey to cut off Medusa’s

After assisting Telemachus, Athena ventures to the Island where Calypso lives to free Odysseus. Odysseus is then given a boat by Calypso to return to home. On the way home, he lands on a strange place which is unknown to him. Athena, cognizant of Odysseus' arrival, travels to the palace of Alcinous disguised as one of Nausicaa's friends. Athena enters the palace and gives Nausicaa advice to venture to river so she would clean herself up to make her presentable to men. In doing this, Athena has sent Nausicaa to meet up with Odysseus at the river. It was then Odysseus' turn to be disguised.