The Character of Helen of Troy in the Iliad and the Odyssey 
.... of the Iliad. In the
Odyssey,
Helen is safely back at Sparta with Menelaus, the details of her return ambiguous. In each royal household ....
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Helen and Penelope in The Iliad and The Odyssey
.... In contrast to Penelope, who plays a very central role in The
Odyssey and especially in Books XVII through XXIV,
Helen serves as the motivating factor for ....
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Odyssey & Aeneid
.... Of course, in The
Odyssey Helen is also an ideal of womanhood also, but having been the catalyst for such a tragic battle, she is also seen as possessing much ....
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Homer's Odyssey & Joyce's Ulysses
.... The view of human nature that emerges in The
Odyssey also has remarkable .... Both
Helen and Menelaos describe Odysseus as the "enduring Odysseus" (IV.241; IV.270). ....
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Selected Themes in Homer's Odyssey
.... More will be said about the employment of epic simile throughout The
Odyssey. .... the fact that he fought for nine years to help reclaim "high-born
Helen" but that ....
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Wandering of Central Characters in Odyssey & Ulysses
.... The view of human nature that emerges in The
Odyssey also has remarkable .... Both
Helen and Menelaos describe Odysseus as the "enduring Odysseus" (IV.241; IV.270). ....
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The Iliad
.... characters concerned all play a vital role.
Helen's role would shift from The Iliad to The
Odyssey. In the fist, she is seen primarily ....
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Four Epics: Odyssey, Aeneid, Ramayana, and Mahabharata
.... shore" (I.3-4). There are structural similarities between the
Odyssey and the .... attachment to Aphrodite/Venus the two goddesses' rivalry with
Helen having been a ....
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Patriarchy and Clytemnestra
.... While Penelope in the
Odyssey waits faithfully for Odysseus, Clytemnestra views the acts of .... will not be the songs of glory and beauty penned for
Helen or those ....
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Chretien de Troyes & Western Literature
.... male oriented." Consider for example the two Greek epics, the Illiad and the
Odyssey. The background of both is the Trojan War, fought over
Helen of Troy, a ....
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Derek Walcott
.... of character and incident in Omeros mark it as a reworking of Homer's
Odyssey. .... Philoctete, Achille, and
Helen are not white Europeans but black Caribs, and the ....
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Virgil
.... vanquished colleagues after the fall of Troy, owed more than a little to The
Odyssey. .... the other outside, as a massive act of revenge for the stealing of
Helen. ....
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Telemachus
.... siege of Troy and of the warriors on both sides who fought over
Helen resulted in .... to which he was subjected in trying to get home after the war in The
Odyssey. ....
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Greco-Roman and Indian Epics
.... shore" (I.3-4). There are structural similarities between the
Odyssey and the .... attachment to Aphrodite/Venus the two goddesses' rivalry with
Helen having been a ....
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The Iliad
.... Iliad as a tragedy, contrasting it with the romance-adventure of the
Odyssey. .... Besides, Menelaeus, king of Sparta and
Helen's aggrieved husband, is his brother. ....
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Greek and Roman Views of a Hero
.... The hero of the
Odyssey was excellent in the ways in which a person can be .... foreign city; the myths tried to explain this idea, using the story of
Helen and the ....
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Theme of Revenge in 2 Ancient Texts
.... to the gods and fulfills the prophecy offered at the beginning of The
Odyssey that he .... the other outside, as a massive act of revenge for the stealing of
Helen. ....
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Ancient Greek Virtrues and Modern Film
.... Art Thou?, which the filmmakers programmatically present as based on Homer's
Odyssey. .... Both
Helen and Menelaos describe Odysseus as enduring (IV.241; IV.270 ....
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Poetics and The Iliad
.... Homer's epic ends with Hector mourned by his wife Andromache, his mother Hecuba, and even
Helen, to whom he .... "Notes on Homer's Iliad and
Odyssey." Viewed on Nov ....
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The Family in Mesopotamia & Homeric Greece
.... As is evident in The
Odyssey, a return to the family wa snot easy and .... of Lucretia leads to the overthrow of tyranny, much as the kidnapping of
Helen led to the ....
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Literary Treatments of Jewish Children
.... public high school in Manhattan, with its Jewish secular culture and Sarah's cultured extended family, also becomes an
odyssey of appreciation .... Lichtman,
Helen. ....
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Vietnamese Immigrants to the US
.... Ebaugh,
Helen Rose, and Chalfetz, Janet Saltzman .... Fox, Thomas C. "A Refugee's
Odyssey Leads to Theological Peaks." National Catholic Reporter 36 (11 February 2000 ....
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