Two Similarities Between Antinous And Odysseus

When Odysseus came home his wife and son didn’t recognize him. His wife had suitors that were in his house, but she didn’t want any of them. When he came home disguised as a poor old beggar all the suitors gave him food, accept for Antinous. All Antinious did was make fun of him and threw a stool at him. Needless to say he won the first battle.

Returning to Ithaca he finds that wooers are trying to take his wife. First off, his action was justified because after 20 long years away he comes to a house full of men trying to steal his wife. He was hoping to go home and see his wife after 20 long years. The men keep going and going after her. They don’t know Odysseus is alive so when he learns of their persistent he gets madder and madder. So at the end when he does finally reveal himself he kills all of the men due to the shear fact of him taking out all of his angry on them. Also, when Penelope was talking and the men found out they trapped her inside of his house.

Cyprus is the birthplace of the goddess Aprohidte, which means that Antinous could be threatening Odysseus to send him to the feet of Aphrodite, trying to scare Odysseus into thinking Aphrodite will torture him. Antinous directly calls him out as a pushy panhandler who is someone who makes a living through their life from other people’s handouts. Odysseus is nothing but a stranger to Antinous, yet he still treats him so terribly, showing that this is no game to him, this is his genuine personality. Antinous is not afraid to tell anyone how he really feels, which is interesting due to the way he treats Penelope with such care and love. If it was true that Antinous wasn’t in love with Penelope, he would be treating her just as he treats everyone else he interacts with, calling her out on her flaws and threatening to torture her.

Odysseus remembers Antinous’s severe disrespect when Antinous cries, “Now you won’t get out of these halls unscarred, I swear, / not after such filthy string of insults” (17.507-510). The suitors then begin to start to wonder where this beggar came from. Odysseus uses his deceptive ways and makes up a backstory for his character as if he were in improvisation. However, Antinous interrupts him and rudely throws a chair at his

Near the end of the book, when Odysseus is back in Ithaca, he must pretend to be a beggar in order to plan the suitors’ demise without their knowledge. When Odysseus sees his old dog, Argos, wait until the moment he saw his master once more before dying, Odysseus must hold back his tears so that Emmaus the loyal swineherd won’t realize the old beggar is, in fact, Odysseus. Not only was he forced to hide his identity, but he also had to endure very demeaning situations as well, such as when he is humiliated by the very suitors he despises. For example, when Melanthius the unloyal goatherd kicked him, instead of killing Melanthius on the spot, Odysseus stayed quiet. Or when Odysseus begged for food from Antinous, only to have the suitor throw a stool at him, square in the back. In the end though, Odysseus’ restraint payed off, and he earned his revenge. For Melanthius, Odysseus strung him up on a plank and then dangled him from the rafters before cutting off his extremities. For Antinous, Odysseus gave him the gift of an arrow through the throat. Thankfully, my show of restraint (or lack of it) did not end in death, and instead I was rewarded with success for my hard work. While studying, there are many chances to get distracted. Sometimes I’d feel thirsty, so I go downstairs to get a glass of water, then I end up talking to a members of my family, and before I knew it my one minute trip downstairs has turned into thirty. Or I’d check my phone, and that would turn into a fifteen minute ordeal. All of these distractions lead to a great deal of procrastination. During the course of this year, I had to resist the temptations of texting friends, playing outside on a sunny day, or sleeping. These were my Sirens calling out to me as I stood strapped to the mast of my

Around the 1200 B.C., Odysseus was sailing the Mediterranean Sea for the purpose of reaching home. In his long narrative poem, The Odyssey, Homer conveys how Odysseus desperately wishes to go home to Ithaca. However, he faces brutal treatment and obstacles from several different antagonists, and more obstacles appear when he reaches home. Odysseus came across many external conflicts, which he dealt with intelligence, determination, and loyalty.

A major part of being a hero is trying to protect the ones you love from any harm, hurt, and danger. Odysseus, however, does not protect his family from harm because he leaves Ithaca for so long. In particular, Odysseus does not protect his wife from hurt when he cheats on her. Every minute of each day that Odysseus was gone, Penelope was mourning the absence of her husband, not knowing that he was deceiving her. Odysseus not only cheats on Penelope once, but twice. First, Odysseus is held sex captive by Calypso, a nymph goddess, on her island for many years. This means that at some point Odysseus had fallen for temptation. Odysseus then cheats on his wife yet again with another goddess named Circe. Although this affair does not last as long, Odysseus still sets

“As calves in stalls when cows come home, droves of them herded back from the field to farmyard one they’ve grazed their fill-as all their young calves come frisking out to meet them, bucking out of their pens, lowing non stop, jostling, rushing round their mothers-so my shipmates there at the sight of my return came pressing round me now, streaming tears. So deeply moved in their hearts they felt as if they’d made it back to their own land, their city, Ithaca's rocky soil where they were bred and reared.” (book 10, 452-461)

Odysseus, now home, must keep his true identity under wraps until he gets rid of the suitors. He also wants to find out for himself how faithful Penelope has been to him. He enters his old palace under the disguise of a beggar; in fact, he gets help from Athena to help him change his physical appearance. Once in the palace, he sees how the suitors have totally overrun his home. He also finds that Penelope has been faithful to him, even using trickery to hold off the suitors for all this time. Odysseus gets his revenge near the end of the story by killing the suitors with his great bow. He also kills every maidservant who has gone to bed with a suitor. This is also a great example of how Zeus puts doom on someone (or in this case a whole group) who abuses the host-guest relationship. With this deed now

Often through great literature, there is an epic hero. In the Odyssey, Homer tells the journey of one man’s journey home from the Trojan War. The protagonist of the epic poem Odysseus is often regarded as a great hero. However, Odysseus is not quite the glorious soldier that people often see him as. Odysseus shows that he is an antihero through his pride, disloyalty, and bloodthirstiness.

Unlike Odysseus Penelope is confined by the gender roles of her time and cannot use physical strength against the suitors or even direct verbal rejection, instead Penelope resorts to her emotional resilience and wit in order to challenge the suitors. She wrongly reassures the suitors that once she finishes weaving a gift for Odysseus’s father, she will choose someone to marry her, “’Young men, my suitors, let me finish my weaving, before I marry’…every day she wove on the great loom but every night by torchlight she unwove it.” (II. 103-104, 112-113) Penelope’s actions are strategic and well calculated. Her main goal, like Odysseus, is to successfully overcome her situation. She understands that she may not be able to physically fight the suitors but she can trick them until Telemachus or Odysseus are able to. By crafting a lie that delays the suitors from marrying her immediately, Penelope restrains the suitors from seizing Ithaca, her household, and posing a threat to Telemachus or Odysseus. Her lie gives Odysseus a crucial advantage in the physical fight against the suitors as he comes back to a city and household where Penelope

During his journey Odysseus used what he has learned from is mistakes to return home and kill the suitors of his wife. On the island of Cicones,and with his encounter with Polyphemus, Odysseus learned that bragging can bring great misfortune. On Ithaca Odysseus never brags to the suitors and is able to enter his house with the Antinous and the other suitors knowing his real identity. He takes the punishment of Antinous and the other suitors without saying a word and is able to see those who have invaded his house. Odysseus is able to see who is loyal and who is not and take his revenge with the suitors never knowing who

Odysseus has no reason to save his men’s lives but for his own convenience. Finally, Odysseus is home and after a long journey in which he shows no heroic actions and yet proves to be nothing but a villain, he once again proves throughout his actions that he is a villain. Odysseus is finally home, on Ithaca, and is then helped by Athena and disguises himself as an old beggar. He proves then to be a villain by seeking his revenge for the suitors and maidservants that once betray him (696, summary). Another way in which Odysseus shows he is a villain is when he finally reunites with his wife Penelope and reacts with rage when she tests him. This reveals Odysseus is a villain because he reacts as if he was innocent and some way being betrayed by his own wife. Of course, though, he never tells his loyal wife Penelope about his love affairs with Calypso and Circe. In conclusion, Odysseus throughout his actions proves to be not only veil but a villain. He leads his men into trouble, kills the suitors and maidservants without mercy, and betrays loyal wife. This allows readers to truly see Odysseus other side. He was a villain and there is no doubt about it. However, think about his so called heroic actions and the way he made everything work out for his own benefits. He knew he was a villain and somehow still got away with

Often through great literature, there is an epic hero. In the Odyssey, Homer tells the journey of one man’s journey home from the Trojan War. The protagonist of the epic poem Odysseus is often regarded as a great hero. However, Odysseus is not quite the glorious soldier that people often see him as. Odysseus disproves his title of a hero through his pride, his disloyalty, and his bloodthirstiness.

Penelope and the maids have contradicting personalities, which is one of the highlights of the epic poem. Penelope’s nature is that she is strong, independent, and does not give in to their constant woo, whereas the maids bring dishonor to the royal family by prejudicing Odysseus in his beggar outfit, and sleeping with the suitors. Penelope is originally depicted as weak and frail, however, this is a ploy for her primary intentions. The suitors had approached Penelope, after years of Odysseus being away at war, and finding his way back home. Eventually, they decided that one should secure the king’s throne of Ithaca, and become Penelope’s husband. Her actions are shown as cunning and manipulative, “‘There she was all day long, working away at the great web; but at night she used to unravel it by