Scylla

Throughout The Odyssey, the audience often feels sympathy for Odysseus and his men: our idealistic minds want to root for the long lost king to make it home to his true love and his kingdom. His return home takes priority in our minds, causing us to root for the fall of anyone and anything that may come in between him and his happy ending. At a closer glance, however, it seems that Homer does not want us to blindly root for the human adventurers. It may be his intention to reveal the humanity and

A few years back I was sailing the open ocean with my leader, Odysseus, and the rest of the crew heading home when Odysseus informed us that we would be taking the long route home. As we grew closer to a strange island, the wind stopped and the water became quiet. “Tie me to the sail post!” Odysseus yelled to us. I thought this was a bit odd of him but we followed orders. We began rowing and quickly as possible to get away from the dangerous song of the Sirens. We were rowing so fast the water

The tale of four outcasts sent into the world to find their place, not the first or last of this kind of story but still entertaining audiences. They all struggled and found their place in the world, away from all others. One fateful day they were brought together to start a journey to acceptance. Our scene is a maple syrup bar in deep Canada. “Tell me sir, what brings you here?” the bartender asked, “I didn’t come here to chit chat buddy” Shrek said in his signature Scottish accent. “I was simply

This speech, which begins in book twelve of Homers The Odyssey, is given by Odysseus to his crew aboard their swift ship as they are about to head into the strait of Scylla and Charybdis. However, he makes no mention of Scylla to his crew in this speech as to not scare the men into hiding away from their stations, since without the men at the ores and a man at the helm they could never pass through the strait. Without this speech, the crew would not have had the courage to sail into this extremely

Leadership is all around us—in our everyday lives. It can be as simple as helping a friend with homework or as complex as the president of the United States. Drum majors conduct the marching band, the quarterback on a football team makes win or lose decisions, a friend helps a someone who doesn’t quite understand the math homework. None of these have to be complex—a few words of encouragement often do the trick. Most definitions of leadership say general things like “Someone who leads” (Dictionary

The main character in the Odyssey, Odysseus, displays many valuable traits throughout the novel, which helped support the main idea that cunning, endurance, and loyalty are more valuable than brute strength Odysseus was incredibly clever and cunning. He solved many problems this way which was different than other heroes who relied on brute strength. Odysseus recalled the horror in a telling of his encounter with Polyphemus his story is a gruesome story of cannibalism "...but starting up laid hands

Scylla Sea Goddess? Scylla, the child of Phorcys and Ceto, was once a sea nymph but is now a monstrous sea goddess. She was born in Italy and now lives in a cave. The backstory of Scylla begins with a fisherman named Glaucus. One day, out of nowhere, the dead fish Glaucus caught began to revive and swim back to the ocean. He noticed there were some strange looking herbs on the ground. Glaucus picked some of this mystery herb up off the ground and ate it. Then, he too had a sudden urge to run into

‘In your opinion, what makes the story of Scylla and Minos so successful?’ In my opinion I think there are many aspects of the story of Scylla and Minos that makes the story so successful. Firstly, Ovid uses many vivid descriptions and rich, creative imagery. For example, Scylla entering her father’s room to cut off his lock of hair is described as, “Nature’s most potent feeder of heartache, night, came on, and our heroine’s boldness increased with the darkness”. Ovid does this to set the scene

Scylla or Charybdis? In the Odyssey, Odysseus had to make many difficult choices throughout the epic. There is one choice in particular that was hard for Odysseus to make. Which of course it was how Odysseus had to choose was to go towards Scylla, who is a big sea monster, or go towards Charybdis which is practically just a huge whirlpool. Odysseus has to make a choice to lose all of his men, the ship, and himself, or he can just lose a few men. In order to make this decision, Odysseus would have

Courage is seeing the light and acting on it despite all the darkness. Invitation To The Game by Monica Hughes, is about a group of eight teenagers. Lisse, Scylla, Alden, Brad, Trent, Karen, Paul, and Katie, who live in the year 2154 when the world is overpopulated, and robots have taken over most jobs. After being released as unemployed from a government school, they learn about ‘The Game’ which is only by invitation and considered an honor. They start getting interested and interacting with the