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Homer mentions the haze that builds in the sky which indicates to me that Odysseus has not found a place in his own world where the underworld exists but has instead passed into another spiritual world.
The underworld is a strange place. When Homer was describing it, it seems almost like a dream. The rules of [...]
In my freshman year of high school, I read an abridged version of the Odyssey for class. It told the tale of a classic hero that was intelligent, insofar as it came to planning battles and tricking monsters, but that was not likable. However, my opinion of Odysseus does not change his status as a [...]
Odysseus is a perfectly formed tragic hero, but he is also something more than that. While some classic heros seem one-demensional, Odysseus is real. He misses his family, longs for them actaully, and his family pines for him as well. He is not the separate, aloof hero Perseus is. Odysseus made a mistake. Even with [...]
