When rushing head first into solving a problem, it is unlikely that a thought out course of action has been developed. This lack of planning can lead to unfortunate issues that could have been avoided with proper time spent creating a game plan. Most children are unable to see long term repercussions, allowing them the freedom of diving into their own ball pit of problems. However, adults are able to see the big picture, creating a sense of need for careful planning. In Homer’s…
Was Alexander the Great all that great? Alexander was a Greek born in 356 B.C in a city located in Northern Greece in a Kingdom named Macedonia. His father, King Philip of Macedonia, was the king of this kingdom where Alexander was born. Alexander inherited the throne when his father was assassinated while Alexander was 20 years old. Alexander the Great does deserve to be a great.…
Homer's reason for including this into his story, was because many Greek people in ancient times believed that the gods had chosen the fate of everyone who lived. This meant that…
Alexander the Great lived for just 33 years, but he left a mark on history that has survived for over two millenia. Born in 356 BCE in Macedonia, Alexander spent his childhood envious of his father's conquests. He watched his father, Philip of Macedonia, head off to great battles and Alexander read of Greek heroes who were celebrated for their bravery. All the while, he wished that he too could become a hero in history.…
The Hmong Journey and The Odyssey In 1963, the CIA recruited the Hmong people in Laos to fight in the “Secret War” using guerilla tactics in order to halt the spread of communism. But this war would bring the Hmong people much suffering and hardships. In order to escape, the Hmong people would try to immigrate to America, but the many obstacles and hardships would block most of them. Like the Hmong people, a man named Odysseus in a poem called “The Odyssey” by Homor, fights in a bloody war for ten years, and they win, but the real trouble starts when he tries to go home. He spends another 10 years trying to get home from Troy to Ithaca, where his wife and son were waiting.…
Have you ever read a book or watched a show and thought, “gee I sure wish this guy would just get what he deserves, he is really asking for it?” Sometimes it can get very annoying. Apparently Homer felt the same way. This helped greatly in making The Odyssey more enjoyable to read. Homer did a very good job of giving people what they deserved in the end.…
One of the questions often asked about a work of literature is whether the principal characters grow or develop as the story progresses. The theme of spiritual growth is central to The Odyssey, especially as it relates to Telemachus and Ulysses. When the epic opens, Telemachus is at a loss as to how to deal with the suitors who have taken over his home and seek the hand of his mother in marriage for primarily political reasons. His own life is in danger; as a pretender to the crown, he is nothing more than so much excess baggage to the men who would be king.…
The Theogony as Role of Citizenship by Kyle Herman The Theogony should be required reading in the Ohio State freshmen curriculum over The Odyssey because the Theogony better demonstrates the role of citizenship through the importance of cooperation and the freedom to choose. The Theogony should be required reading in the freshmen curriculum over The Odyssey because it emphasizes the importance of cooperation. In the Theogony, Typhon plans to rule over the Gods and humans.…
The Life of a Single Mother I wonder how it felt to be in Penelope’s shoes with Telemachus. She was a single mother raising Telemachus threw out his whole life because his dad Odysseus had go to the Trojan war. She was a very indepent women and responisble when Odysseus was gone. I bet she had a hard time, but she was a good mother.…
Humanity includes all of the beings in the world, where they are righteous without influence. One way humanity is shown as intrinsically ethical is throughout Homer's Odyssey. Homer depicts many qualities of being a naturally good person through different aspects of the novel. Odysseus's self-control is one of these many aspects showing how human is naturally good. Another very important quality of the characters in the Odyssey is their own hospitality.…
Homer’s The Odyssey, published by Mentor, New York (1946). The Odyssey is a book about a man named Odysseus and his struggle to return to his home in Ithaca after the Trojan War. Odysseus, a strong fierce warrior is best distinguished as devious for his schemes he devises in order to return to his…
Human excellence is in a person who achieves perfection. Perfection is the process of striving to become what one was indented for. Therefore, an excellent human is a person who has become what they were created for. In The Iliad of Homer many characters show aspects of this excellence. However, one character especially lives according to his purpose.…
However, if one were to look deeper, one would see that Homer is actually trying to teach a life lesson on many topics that one can use to improve his or her life. The Iliad is a great book to teach life lessons using critical thinking skills. It has helped me to improve as well as change my life for the better. The insight and brilliance that Homer gives will always be admired and should be used for the education of future…
Mortality in Homer’s Iliad Mortality is one of the main qualities that set humans apart from the gods in the Iliad. The human characters of the Iliad are limited by their transience.…
Homer’s epic poem, the Iliad, speaks about the great deeds of the Mycenaeans in the Trojan War. More specifically, it is about Achilles’ conflict with Agamemnon. The Greeks claimed to be heralded from Mycenaeans; this is definitely true. Mycenaeans were the earliest Greek-speaking peoples in the region, as opposed to the Minoans of Crete, and the civilizations from the Cyclades speaking their own languages. Homer was born into the Dark Age of Greece, a few hundred years after the bronze age Mycenaeans.…