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The Powerful Women and Their Influence in the Odyssey
Title: The Powerful Women and Their Influence in the Odyssey
Category: Literature / English
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The Powerful Women and Their Influence in the Odyssey
The Powerful Women and their influence in the Odyssey.
The odyssey by Homer is the second work of western literature.It is a heroic poem about the return of Odysseus from Troy to reclaim his treatened home in Ithaca.He suffered great anguish and suffering on the high seas in his quest to reconcile with his beautiful wife Penelope and son Telemachus. It is a superb story rich in incident,adventures,character,reconciling the heroic …showed first 75 words of 1365 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1365 total…poem. Many other early epics are characterized by coldness, morbidity, and brutality, caused by the subjects with which they dealt. It is only in the Odyssey, among early Greek works that such familiar ideas as love, family loyalty, devotion, and other such important ethical attitudes are both illustrated and advocated. It is the presence of these unconscious moral lessons that makes the Odyssey so unique in its genre and produces its humanitarian and optimistic outlook.
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