... over the centuries. The eccentricity of the supernatural world is what makes it such a popular genre for audiences to enjoy. In many epic stories and poems, authors have been successful in conveying basic human concepts through intricately crafted supernatural characters. For example, some supernatural beings can ... a mighty thunderbolt that could smite any mortal or god instantly. These mythic figures were later used in many Greek epic poems and some of them were portrayed as the mortal hero's adversaries and sought to destroy him. This is most evident in Homer's The Odyssey. In Homer's...

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... nature of this subject as I am focusing it than other do, albeit most scholars believe that "The Odyssey" is a compendium of three different myths, sagas, or legends in one long epic by someone named Homer. In the very first line of "The Odyssey," Odysseus is described as "the man of many ways." Lying is clearing one of these many ways, and ... of the narrative to me appears much as the writings of William Shakespeare. Homer, (if he is the true and only author) like William Shakespeare enjoyed a tale which was of epic purportion, involved rich characterizations, and indeed the line betw...

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