Scylla and Charybdis

In a very highly tense and stressful situation, people tend to go as far as they can to avoid the situation at all costs. There are only a handful of people who run towards the problem to solve it in hopes to save someone’s life. These people are risking their own lives to save someone in need of aid, all without any money, fame, or endorsements in the future. In today’s society the concept of heroism can make a huge impact on a person’s or society’s view. Heroes help teach us what is right from

The Odyssey Reading Comprehension Questions Part 1 Part 1 1) Where is Odysseus located at the poem’s beginning? 2) What is a muse? And why is Homer asking the muse to, “sing in me?” 3) Who is lord Helios? 4) What did Odysseus’ men do to lord Helios? 5) Who is Odysseus’ father? 6) Where is Odysseus from? (What city is his home?) 7) Who is Calypso? Who is Circe of Aeaea? 8) What did Circe do to Odysseus? 9) Who were the Cicones and what does it sound like

Greek mythology as it exists today was a culmination of oral tradition that was part of the early Greek civilization. Different regions of the Greek empire had different heroes with their own traditions, and thus Greek mythology was firmly tied to it geographical location. Geography and physical places helped shape Greek mythology to a large extent. Homer’s Odyssey, Iliad and Hesiod’s Theogony are examples of Greek mythology where the myth is tied with the geographical space. With the mention of

(Book 9 Lines 282-285) Odysseus brought his men together and stabbed his eye out and then proceeded to escape with everyone out of the Cyclops cave without any casualties. Finally Odysseus led his men through the challenges of Scylla and the Siren. The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis were very dangerous obstacles to get across although that only Odysseus was the only one who survived these he still did a good job of leading his men. It was a good idea on his part not to tell the men about the challenges

this whole time. When they are going to leave Circe's island to sail home, Circe tells him about the route he should take home first to plug all men's ears with beeswax so they don't get distracted by the sirens, than he should go by the Scylla instead of Charybdis so he does lose all his men just six of them. Odysseus should of told his men that some of them were going to die, but if he did tell them I think they would of gone with

The most extreme example of his hubris is when he is when he insist on fighting the Charybdis, a whirlpool that eats ships, and the Scylla a monster with six arms and a head on the end of each arm. Both of these creatures are unkillable and he wants to fight them both at the same time. As a result he loses six men and almost dies. Another example of his hubris

with strong determination and bravery. No matter what they faced, how much they lost, or whatever situation, Odysseus never gave up, he kept on going. He fearlessly led his men through many obstacles and dangerous creatures like the sirens, Charybdis, Scylla, and the Cyclops. When Odysseus went up against Circe when she was turning his men into pigs he was not scared of her magic and went up against her (with the help of Hermes Moly herb he was immune to some of her magic) He intelligently went around

with the Cyclopes Polyphemus, Son of Poseidon, instead of simply attacking, Odysseus decides to think for a second and decides to get the Cyclopes drunk, blinded, and willing to move the rock blocking the cave entrance. In his encounter with Scylla and Charybdis, instead of choosing one monster and simply surviving the attacks, he chooses to use the olive branch to get across. This is a heroic trait because it’s a superhuman feat or quality, and Odysseus uses it to solve his

Odysseus spent many years travelling throughout the Greek civilization. He has faced many unrealistic creatures that today, would scare everything out of us, and even took a twenty year trip to make it back home to his family. He has saw giant creatures with one eye, flying women, and even more that we would not believe. Odysseus was a person full of different characters, being his own little book. He appeared as a strong, brave man, full of wits and tricks. Homer wrote The Odyssey between about

villain archetype in The Odyssey is “My men all blanced against the gloom,our eyes were fixed upon that yawning mouth in fear of being devoured.”(Homer 807) The six-headed monster,Scylla would snatch up six sailors at a time and devour them while they were still alive. Odysseus had to choose between Scylla and Charybdis,which is where we get the less of two evils archetype. The third and final example of the monster and villain archetype in The Odyssey is the encounter with the cyclopes,Philoctetes