Odysseus
Essays

Claude Rawson is best known as a scholar of Jonathan Swift and the eighteenth century, but Rawson's has also used the savage irony of Swift's modest proposal for a series of essays which consider Swift's invocation of…

Ulysses by James Joyce is written in epic style and thus is not easy to grasp in terms of its scope and meaning. The novel can be read in different contexts; sometimes it appears to be nothing more than a commentary on…

Choose three examples of Hamlet's wordplay: puns, riddles, double entendres, insults, jokes and other verbal wit and virtuosity. Please explain what each of your examples means (a paragraph or so) and why each is…

This paper compares Dante's Divine Comedy with Homer's The Odyssey. Dante's struggle is fundamentally an interior, poetic quest for spiritual salvation and Christian understanding. Homer's Odysseus is on a quest to find his home. Odysseus does not embody Christian ideals, but is a clever, heroic figure of the kind admired by the ancient Greeks. Dante the character functions as an everyman.

The story of Oedipus has surpassed the original play in that even people who have never seen or read Oedipus Rex know the basic elements of the story.

The document considers the purpose of life from the viewpoint of various characters from Ancient Greek literature, i.e. Oedipus, Odysseus, Aeneas, and Medea. Each of these characters has a unique and personal ideal regarding the purpose of his or her life. What is particularly interesting is the way in which these purposes can also apply to life today.

Allen Bloom wrote one of the most controversial books of the late-20th Century, in which he denounced the demise of the core curriculum at elite U.S. universities and it replacement by what he considered to be a vague…

Aeneas was a Trojan prince who fled from the ruins of Troy to look for Italy as his new fatherland. In his voyage, Aeneas shatters the heart of Dido - the Carthaginian queen, pays a visit to the Underworld, and finds…

This paper explores the parallels and influence of ancient Near Eastern / Mesopotamian mythology on the more familiar classical Greek myths. It begins with an examination of parallels between the Homeric epic and Gilgamesh, noting that motifs would not have been influenced by readership but by oral transmission. it then examines explicit mythographic writing in terms of the depictions of goddesses in Mesopotamian and Greek myth. The essay includes two primary and three secondary source quotations.

Women in the Odyssey and King James Bible