Troilus And Cressida In The Odyssey

Despite Calypso being a character who defies typical constraints, she is not always the model of a defiant woman. In spite of the fact that she is repeatedly used by Homer to show disobedience against the role that is expected of her, she still shows characteristics of a normal female character in an epic poem. When Hermes comes to visit her, she sets “a table with ambrosia” and “a bowl of rosy nectar” (Homer, p. 386). Setting the table for a man is a sign of respect and shows that she accepts her role of catering towards the opposite sex. This is a crucial moment as Calypso has continuously shown contempt for a woman’s conventional duties. When she is introduced, she is described as sitting in her home “singing in a lovely voice as she wove at her loom with a golden shuttle” (Homer, p. 386). The loom is a direct symbol of a tamed woman, reiterated by Penelope’s extensive use of it throughout the epic. When Homer describes Calypso on her loom, he refers to her as

In a world where today, we can hardly hope for fidelity and allegiance in the one we choose to give our love to, it might be difficult to understand the plight of Penelope and Telemachus. Even

Chapter 1- Ten years after the Trojan War, everyone reached home except for Odysseus. He remained a hostage at Ogygia by Calypso. Meanwhile, Telemachus (Odysseus’s son) is told by Athena, disguised as Mentes, that his father will return home and tells him to dispel the suitors who keep devouring his father’s estate.

Odysseus’ and Telemachus’ journeys or nostos were both very similar and different. They parallel each other in some ways but they are also completely different at other times. Telemachus starts as a younger, less mature boy, and without the presence of his father during his childhood, he becomes a timid, shy and spineless boy who is greatly pampered by his mother. He has even more to achieve, being the son of a world-famous father, and this is a very difficult reputation to live up to. His journey, and after that the killing of the suitors who took advantage of him really show how his journeys and problems throughout the book mature him from being a shy, timid boy into a mature man. Odysseus’ journey also taught him about many things

Many years after the end of the Trojan War, Odysseus still hasn’t returned home to Ithaka. Many believe that he is dead, but the author lets us know that he is being held as a sex captive on the goddess Kalypso’s island. Kalypso has no plans of letting him go to return home either.

Focus on the descriptions of the palaces of Nestor and Menelaus. Find quotations that describe their virtues:

Different types of love and marriage play a significant role in Shakespeare’s twelfth night, whether unrequited like with Antonio and Malvolio; or something seemingly unattainable like with Duke Orsino. Love is prevalent as one of Shakespeare's central theme emphasized in the Twelfth Night. With that, we see Shakespeare communicate different interpretations and feelings regarding the subject. He does this with the medium of melodramatic characters. However, this essay will solely elaborate on the character Duke Orsino and his exploration of love. Through Orsino’s actions, Shakespeare conveys several messages still applicable today, some of which are about the fine line between superficial love and genuine love, love's incoherency, and love's

In the classic, The Odyssey, the male and female expectations for the Greeks are mentioned. Homer and modern day people have very different opinions on what values the perfect man or woman are obliged to fulfill. Odysseus and Penelope had desirable traits and together they were the image of perfection. Today, Odysseus would have been disgraced for his values and Penelope would have been praised for her weaknesses then. Although Odysseus and Penelope were the ideal man and woman in their time, many standards have changed for the modern male and female.

The eight evil thought were created in 375 A.D. They were made so the greeks would know what not to do. In “The Cyclops” Odysseus goes to where the cyclops lives and goes in his cave, the Cyclops finds them and puts a rock in front of the entrance so they could not get out. Then Odysseus gets the Cyclops drunk and stabs his eye then he and his men hid under the animals so when the Cyclops goes to take the animals out of the cave they get out too. Odysseus demonstrates, Kenodoxia(ken-o-dox-ia), Orge (or-guh), and Gastrimargia (gas-tri-mar-gia). (Ken-o-dox-ia), boasting is detriment to humans because when a person brags all of the time people get annoyed by the person who boasts all of the time. Odysseus says, “If I could take your life I would take your time away(Cyclops.525).” Odysseus boasts about how he defeated the cyclops and brags to the cyclops how he would take his life but he did not.

   Ancient Greek society treated women as secondary citizens. Restrictions were placed on the social and domestic actions of many aristocratic women in ancient Athens.  The women depicted in Homer's Odyssey, on the other hand, are the ideal.  Penelope, Clytaemestra, Athena, and Helen are all women with exceptional liberty and power.

It is important to keep reading, “The Odyssey.” Even though it is 2800, years old, students still need to learn about it. It is important to continue studying “The Odyssey” because is it a moral story, the historical significance is important, and it is essential to study other culture’s mythology.

Sing I me, Muse, and through me tell the story of the lady nymph goddess Calypso. Oh so beautiful and immortal who lives in the sea- hollowed caves on the island Ogygia. She craved the hero of Troy, king of Ithaka, son of Laertes, a mortal and took him as her own. Nine long years they spent on the island together.

A dying Marcus Aurelius plans to name his most loyal general, Maximus, keeper of Rome. Unfortunately, Marcus’ greedy and neglected son Commodus does not like the idea of another man, especially an unrelated one, taking his place as emperor. Commodus takes matters into his own hands and kills his beloved father and rules as the emperor of Rome. He orders his soldiers to take Maximus too an isolated area to be slain. Fortunately, Maximus escapes and goes to find his family. In hope that he will find his family waiting with open arms, he finds that Commodus’ had already wreaked havoc and destroyed his home and killed his family. His wife and son hanging from a tree as their singed, lifeless bodies hung. A mourning Maximus buries his

    The meaningful term “love” can be applied to differing relationships in Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello. In this essay let us examine under a microscope the “love” that we find throughout the play.

In Antigone and Lysistrata the tension between the polis and oikos is reflected in different ways. Antigone prioritizes oikos over polis, while Creon prioritizes polis over oikos. The men in Lysistrata favor fighting for the state over being at home while the women want their husbands with them instead of being at the war. We find ample evidence of different conflicts and similarities in both plays, but the male's prioritizing polis over oikos and the female's prioritizing oikos over polis causes the central tension in Antigone and Lysistrata.