The Odyssey Long years after the Trojan War the Greek hero Odysseus still hadn't arrived to his home and wife in Ithaka. Many thought he was killed in battle. The auther of The Odyssey informs us differently though. According to Homer, the author, Odysseus is a sex slave on an island where the goddess is Kalypso. The god of sea, Poseidon, does not like Odysseus and intends to keep him captive..
Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus displays many different traits of the hero’s journey. He refuses his very journey, saying that it is impossible to return home. He is faced with many trials, including being attacked and trapped by the giant cyclops and being sent in the wrong direction by Poseidon. He meets the goddess and is tempted by a woman when he meets Calypso and and stays with her for a few years. He finally achieves his goal when he returns home.
For example, when Odysseus and his crew go out and pillage the former allies of the trojans like a bunch of pirates. He and his crew in the midst of celebration, are caught off guard by their reinforcements. In the end, Odysseus must retreat back to the boat with a little less men than before. Odysseus and his crew didn’t even need to go and pillage the island, they simply did it because it was there, and the inhabitants were former enemies. And as a result, are pushed back due to their overconfidence.
Unfortunately, because of the length of time that Odysseus is away from home, the situations that he must face causes his loyalty to weaken, as well as the strength of his various motivations. On his journey back to Ithaca, Odysseus faces many challenges, yet he us willing to accept these challenges which sometimes cause a conflict between his men and his loyalty to society. One of the places he encounters is the land of the Cyclopes which wasn’t exactly home sweet home. When they arrived his men
Because of this, Romulus went to neighbouring towns and tried arranging marriages, but because Rome was full of unwanted and poor people, all of the women refused. Another legend recorded by a Greek historian called Dionysius of Halicarnassus , said that price Aeneas led a group of Trojans on a sea voyage to find a new Troy, as the original Troy was destroyed in the Trojan War. After a long time the Trojans landed at the banks of the Tiber River. Not long after they landed the men wanted to get back on sea, but the
He wants to return home to his family and once again rule over his kingdom at Ithaca, but the gods and goddesses play a large role. Odysseus angers Poseidon, the god of the sea, when he tortures the Cyclops Polyphemus, who is Poseidon’s son. Odysseus’s fatal flaw is hubris or excessive pride. It is this excessive pride that causes Odysseus to belittle the Cyclops after he has blinded him. Odysseus had no need to yell at the blinded Cyclops; he had already escaped from the Cyclops’s harm.
When Odysseus and his men are clearly safe away from the island Odysseus brags about his successful feat. Polythemus hears this and launches giant boulders in the direction of the ship. Some came very close to sinking the ship, yet that was not enough for Odysseus. Blinded by his pride he unwisely revealed his identity to Polythemus. With that Polythemus called upon his father, Poseidon, to seek revenge on the man who had harmed him.
The Muses-Daughters of Zeus, goddesses of music, literature, and dance Penelope-Odysseus’s faithful wife Polyphemos Cyclops, son of Poseidon; his cure of Odysseus, who blinded him, is the rot of many of Odysseus's troubles Poseideon-Brother of Zeus, god of the sea. Hates Odysseus for blinding his son. Seirenes- Sea nymphs whose singing beguiles sailors to an island strewn with the bones of their victims Skylla- A six-headed dragon-like monster who eats sailors and lives in a cave opposite the whirlpool Charybdis. Telemachus-Odysseus’ son Archetype-elemental pattern of myth and ritual which recurs in the legends and ceremonies of diverse cultures EXAMPLE: faithful women, disguised hero, trop to the
For instance while on his way to meet Circe, Odysseus runs into Hermes the messenger of the Gods. This point is also when Athena starts to intervene in Odysseus life. The last part of the separation is the descent, the point when the hero voyages into uncharted territory. When Odysseus blinds Polyphemus the Cyclops and is leaving the island Polyphemus prays to his father Poseidon. Which starts the curse where Poseidon does everything he can to not have Odysseus make it home.
Poseidon is mad a odysseus because he blinded his son the king of the Cyclops Athena disguised herself as an old friend of odysseus, then as a captain among the soldiers, then as the son of anchialus and an old friend of odysseus. Athena advises telemachaus to look for his father. If he finds his father he kills the suitors if not they have a proper funeral and his mom can remarry penelopie says that she cannot choose a husband until she finishes weaving which she unravels each night An omen is a sign of what is to come Zeus sends eagles as a sign Athena took the shape of telmeachus and gathered a ship and crew. Nestor has opinions of odysseus Nestor was amazed when he realizes that telemachos’s companion is Athena he says telem.