In Homer's The Odyssey, Odysseus portrays the perfect Homeric hero in possessing all the defining traits of an admirable hero and leader. Not only does he display courage, strength, and a mentality for glory, but also intellect and cunningness superior to other men. His personal flaws and errors i...
In the Penelopiad, Penelope unashamedly calls her husband a 'liar' and it is obvious when she mocks her husband's credibility 'Many people have believed that his version of events was the true one, give or take a few murders, a few beautiful seductresses, a few one-eyed monsters.' ...
After colonizing their own peninsula the Greeks set out across the Aegean and started encountering the many different cultures and peoples that occupied these lands. Mariners came home from these voyages with tales of wondrous lands and strange peoples and these tales influenced the storytellers of ...
