Lotus-eaters

Home and Family vs. Fame and Glory The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer are the two major heroic epics of ancient Greece, and the oldest surviving European poems. The poems were originally part of the oral tradition, then written down between 750 and 650 B.C.E., and finally fixed in the 500’s B.C.E. The Iliad tells the story of the ten year long Trojan War fought against the city of Troy by the Achaeans. The Odyssey focuses on king Odysseus, who fought in the war, and his journey from Troy to his

receives the pearls as a gift on behalf of his father for use in a time of trouble. The settings and opponents faced by Percy and his companions, Annabeth and Grover, are the same: Medusa at the Emporium, Hydra at the Parthenon replica, and the Lotus-eaters at the casino. However, the reward for winning in the book is survival, not a pearl as portrayed in the movie. Another example is the scene involving Hades’ Minotaur. Percy is not an experienced fighter at the beginning of the book; therefore

Tommy, and Pappy. At the end of each of their journeys, the heroes overcome hardships and make it back to their homes. The two stories also contain many things that do not usually exist in real life such as blind prophets, cyclopes, sirens, and lotus eaters.

The Odyssey is an epic poem envisioned centuries ago by an individual name Homer. The poem tells a tale concerning a Trojan War hero named Odysseus who after ten years has still not returned home to Ithaca. A large mob of suitors overrun Odysseus’ palace and pillage his land, as well as court his wife the wise Penelope. His return home is dire in order to vanquish these suitors and reclaim his land and position as king. Along his journey home he is captured and imprisoned by a witch/nymph named

thought Polyphemus hurt himself by accident. Odysseus will eventually feel remorse for blinding Polyphemus, the cyclop, because his father is the God Poseidon who will later punish him for hurting his son. Odysseus was fierce on the island of Lotus eaters. He encountered a lot of obstacles like they tried to kill him but he got them back by killing them

Throughout this semester we have explored a variety of cultures and the recurring theme of pilgrimages and the storytelling of these pilgrimages. While every journey is not the same, each of the pilgrimages has a lesson that can be learned. Two of the main pilgrimages that we explored were, Homer’s Odyssey, and Dante’s Inferno, both of which have a strong lesson about fate, but explore the topic in very different ways. In Homer’s Odyssey the story starts ten years after the Trojan War, where we

chopped off its entire heads for two more to grow back in each of their places. In the end they used Medusas head to turn it to stone. The last pearl was located at a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, the Lotus Casino. Once they reach the hotel they are constantly asked if they would like to try a Lotus flower. They take some and continue to eat them. The flowers kept them at the hotel for many days which gives them time to either find the lightning bolt or convince Zeus that he does not have it. With

Throughout the greater part of history, men were typically viewed as head of the family. They were the ones who provided for and protected the family. Certain situations lead to the separation of man from his family, which creates a window of opportunity for another man to gain control. In order for man to remain in his head position, he will face and overcome a variety of obstacles. Both Everett in O’ Brother Where Art Thou? and Odysseus in The Odyssey face various obstacles in their journey home

1. The Vikings had a closely tied relationship between their culture and other cultures. You can see this because some of the stories from different parts of the world were put into their own stories. The story of the creation myth of Ymir is paralleled to the story of the Brahma. The stories of zombies from the African culture can be closely tied to stories of revenants that are in the Viking culture. A reason for some of these resonances may be because of the trade route they had; which was through

BLOW-UP is the story of a successful fashion photographer, Thomas (David Hemmings), who, whilst scouting for fresh subjects in a park one afternoon, photographs a mysterious couple in 'flagrante delicto.' Upon returning to his studio loft later that day, he develops the pictures and discovers that he has inadvertently stumbled upon a murder. Antonioni is not interested in the details of the murder itself, as in a typical detective story, but rather with how the protagonist's perception of the world