Homer the Bard and Odysseus the Husband
The Odyssey is a beautiful epic written by Homer a long time ago, but it never stops being the subject of modern-day remaking and remixing. The epic details the journey of a man’s homecoming, starting out with Odysseus’ son Telemachus. The first four books of the epic focuse on Telemachus’ journey in search for his […]
The Odyssey blog post
Something about the Odyssey that immediately struck me was the diverse, sophisticated diction of the text. Despite being thousands of years old and having been translated multiple times, I found the Odyssey to be very understandable.The broad vocabulary Homer seems to use makes his story impressively precise and convincing. The rhythm of its poetic […]
Odysseus Would Be Horrible to Take on Roadtrips
So, the Odyssey. It was really interesting reading this, especially right after Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling is very analytical, and I found it very hard to read. I kept on having to stop and make notes to make sure I actually understood what Kierkegaard was saying. With the Odyssey, I had to make myself stop […]
The Odyssey
Over the course of reading The Odyssey I noticed a couple of interesting things the foremost being the prominent role of women within the story. Women within the poem held a great deal of power, often surpassing the power held by the male characters. Athena stands as the most active female figure in the poem, being […]
Birds in the Odyssey
While reading the Odyssey, one of the key things I noticed was the use of birds as a means to foreshadow the outcome of the final conflict between Odysseus and Penelope’s suitors. As the epic begins, two eagles are seen flying through the sky until they begin to attack one another and then eventually tear […]
Odysseus vs. the Modern Hero
If people nowadays find it difficult to understand why, as little as 30 years ago, fashion had them wearing neon leg warmers as a part of their everyday attire, imagine how much our views have changed since the time of the Ancient Greeks. Back then, it was considered to let random strangers into your house, offer your […]
We are most amused.
His Imperial Majesty The Emperor of Celestria most graciously welcomes you to His blog, dropping some formalities aside, this is our blog, and we may tend to refer to ourselves as we as fitting for a monarch. We will be able to explain further about the Empire and our interests in future posts. His Imperial […]
Me.
Reflection is a task that I find to be simultaneously both intensely invigorating, and acutely enervating, and it is a task whose importance I often seem to under-value until having completed it. This is my first attempt at completing this task … Continue reading →
Intro
Hello everyone! Being in Arts One has so far been the icing in the cake of my university experience and I really hope it continues to remain so as we plunge deeper into the course. I was drawn to it because the reading list had many books that I always told myself that I would […]
Intro Post
Hi everyone! My name is Regina and I’m from Coquitlam. Yes, it is a long commute, thanks for asking. I was born in Kyrgyzstan (I bet that none of you know where that is), and moved to Canada when I … Continue reading →