Overview of Odyessy
"The Odyssey,' written by Homer in the Bronze Age, sometime around the twelfth century B.C., begins where the "Iliad," ends and covers the ten years after the fall of Troy. In the story itself, Odysseus travels around the Aegean and surrounding seas and for the climax of the story, he returns home to Ithaca. Every great story, always has popular and important themes that may or may not have hidden morals and beliefs. Popular themes in "The Odyssey," are the "power of cunning over strength, the pitfalls of temptation, the tension between goals and obstacles, and the misery of separation.""The misery of separation" is shown clearly in book XXIII. In this book Homer describes Odysseus' long awaited twenty-year reunion with Penelope, the hero's wife. Odysseus has returned to Ithaca and the nurse believes it at first and goes to tell Penelope. A brief excerpt from th
Another popular theme shown in this book is the "power of cunning over strength. They can put chaos into the clearest head or bring a lunatic down to earth. In book XXIII, Odysseus is talking to his son, Telemachus about a battle they might soon be in. Telemachus says, "I stand ready to follow you and to fight. " This is a perfect example of what makes Odysseus' cunning way more powerful than his strength. "Wake, wake up dear child! Penelope, come down, see with your own eyes what all these years you longed for! Odysseus is here! Oh, in the end he came! And he has killed your suitors, killed them all who made his house a bordel and ate his cattle and raised against his son!" says Eurykleia. " Penelope had convinced herself that her husband was either dead or he just simply would return for her and when she finally got word of Odysseus finally returning she wouldn't allow herself to believe it. " Odysseus replies, "Here is our best maneuver, as I see it: bathe and put fresh clothing on, order the women to adorn themselves, and let our admirable harper choose a tune for dancing, some lighthearted air, and strum it. Oh, leave me! Back down stairs! If any other of my women came in babbling things like these to startle me, I'd see her flogged out of the house! Your old age spares you that. " Odysseus' wife, Penelope was in such disbelief of her husband's promised return that threatened her own caretaker to be kicked out.
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