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Essay Instructions: Odysseus Character Analysis
Write One sentence(thesis/main idea) intoduction for this assignment. The bulk of your writing will resolve around your defennse of your thesis/main idea with appropriate textual refenced/quotations(book and line). Please use up to page 229 only

By the time you have read the first 150 pages of the text, you will be keenly aware of the number of different adjectives, adjectival phrases and eipithets that are added to any reference to Odysseus.

The man of twists and turns, great,luckless, wise, exile, never at a loss, king, mastermind cunning god's own, great, hearted, lord, flexible, wily, brave.
While there is a legitimate poetic reason for the constant recurrance of these characterizations, they also help us get a sense of the way the narrator regards the central charcater and importantly, the way the other characters in the next regard the central character. I have asked you to keep careful track of the ways in which Odysseus is characterized as you ead, so it should be fairly easy to chooses several of the adjectives or epithlets that appear to occur most often and to write a descriptive sketch of Odysseus, featuring a well-foscused characterizing sentence/thesis and some good evidence to support, your controlling idea. However, in writing yourdescriptive sketch of Odysseus, I want you to think about the accuracy of the characterizations that you have encountered regarding Odysseus. For instance, do we will give your sketches an argumrntative or critical edge and will force you think carefully before you write.

Essay Instructions: In a carefully crafted response of no fewer than 250 words, react to the fact that some scholars have commented that Odysseus was probably the Greeks' favorite hero. Assuming this is true, why do you think this would be the case? In light of what you now know about Greek culture and myth, why would Odysseus's attributes and actions be considered so admirable by the Greeks? In your response, you may want to draw comparisons to other Greek heroes we have studied, but remain focused on Odysseus. You may also want to reference two concepts that were important to Greek culture, metis (cunning intelligence, cleverness), and sophrosyne (self control).


Links to Additional Information about Odysseus:

http://www.maicar.com/GML/Odysseus.html

http://www.odysseus-unbound.org/

Essay Instructions: PAPER STRUCTURE:
Intro: thesis one sentence(Odysseys is not a hero),then 6 different reasons in 6 sentences(example of first 3 reasons: He is disloyal, Odysseus is self-centered. Furthermore he is ignorent. etc.)(these six different reasons must become six diffrent paragraphs).

Each paragraph:
1- must have a topic sentence((topic sentence must repeat thesis and i reason)example: Odysseus is not hero because he is self-centerd.)
2-then explain, prove with short quotes.

Conclusion: repeat thesis in new words



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Essay Instructions: **Please use topic " Odysseus is a hero because.... to start off the THESIS STATEMNET, and to FINISH AND PROVE THE ESSAY: ....."
**Please use ONLY these books to prove THESIS statement and cite quotes from, and also please use examples from 3 of the books listed below, and choose one (or more) of Homer's characters in "The Odyssey" and tell how it affected the success of the entire famous story. BOOKS:

-Book V (calypso)
-Book VI (The princess)
-Book IX (lines 110-593)
-Book X (lines 143-620)
-Book XI (circe)
-Book XIII (athena)
-Book XVII (the beggar at the palace)
-Book XXI-XXIV (revenge and reunion)
**Please cite(work) quotes throughout the writing using MLA
**Please add a conclusion and a work cite page