Discuss the relationship between man (freewill) abd tge natural and supernatural world in the Odyssey?
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I don't understand what are you meaning but i think if you want to discuss it try to go in a forum...
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I've always been fond of Odysseus. I like his intelligence and self confidence, although he does have his flaws.
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Actually, there is a mythology character...Morpheus, the god of sleep, was imagined as a shape changer...hence the term, Polymorphism. He could appear in dreams in any shape he chose.
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The Odyssey and the Iliad are usually attributed to Homer, but scholars are still trying to determine whether or not he actually wrote these epic poems.\n\nOther literary works have been falsely attributed to Homer such as the Homeric Hymns and the Margites and The Battle of Frogs and Mice.
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Well, in the Odyssey, as I recall, he built himself an android robot capable of firing subatomic laser particles out of its eyes.  When the Cyclops (named Harry) comes back from a hard day of herding sheep, WHAM, the android makes Harry-Barbecue and they all run away to Tahiti, the home of Odysseus's estranged wife Carmen Electra.\n\nActually, they blind the Cyclops with a stick and then sneak out under the cover of lambskins, the Cyclops feeling them as they pass out of the cave to make sure they're only his sheep.  But I think my idea has merit, too.
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Sorry to disappoint, Odysseus is a mythical character in two of the Greek poet and story teller, Homer.  He interacted with the Gods and even went to Hades (the land of the dead) in his travels.  He was portrayed in Homer's works "The Odyssey" and "The Iliad"\n\nOther mythical (not real) characters are Hercules and King Arthur.
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I clicked on the link, but I saw that you had already been helped!\n\nPerhaps Odesseus/Ulysses was a comic hero?  I mean, come on!  A big wooden horse to defeat the Trojans?  Somehow I think this was a play on Trojan ego...  Was the giant wooden horse compensating for something?  Sorry.  I love double meanings...
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Man experiences his Dual Nature all the time.  In the world, there is light and Dark, Cold seasons and Hot seasons, Up and Down.  In his mind there is right and Wrong, Good and Bad, Past and Future, Smart and Dumb.  In his actions there is Strong and Weak,  Conscious and Unconscious, and again, Right and Wrong.\nIn Occultism ( which means "Hidden Knowledge") it is represented in the equation "0=2".  Out of nothing comes our dual nature.  It goes way back to Adam and Eve.  Where they both ate from the tree "of Knowledge".  In doing that they lost the understanding of the ONE.
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(The river god, Alphaeus, pursued the nymph Arethusa; she begged the goddess Artemis for help and was turned into a fountain which flowed to Suracuse under the sea ; the two waters, River-Alphaeus and Fountain-Arethusa, rose in Ortygia where they mixed.\n\nARETHUSA\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOne of the nymphs of the fountains, who attracted the ardor of Alpheios, the river god, who pursued her with such persistence that she had to turn to Artemis, who caused the stream that Arethusa represented to flow underground, thus eluding the river god.
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One glance at the back synopsis would reveal that Odysseus is the hero of the Odyssey. (And it is spelled: Odyssey!)\n\nThe epic tells of the story of Odysseus' journey back home to Ithaca from the ruins of Troy. \n\nTrivia!  ~Odysseus is known as Ulysses in Roman Literature.
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Hello again....\n\nI was always intrigued by the story of the Minotaur and the great Labrynth of Knossos....or was it Crete, nope that was the king, I believe....anyway, I digress...\n\nThe story of Perseus and Medusa also struck a chord - as a girl I was busting to have a horse just like Pegasus.\n\nThe first movie I ever went to see (that I remember) was Clash of the Titans and I don't think I ever got over the romance of it all......
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As I recall the story her owes absolutley nothing to them...however we may not be talking about the same Agamemnon here T,T Which story is this from the Odyssey or a different one?\ndamnedatehist@gmail.com -e-mail me if u need help
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Every human person is endowed with a spiritual soul, with intellect and with free will. Man is rational and therefore like God; he is created with free will and is master over his acts. \n\nGod created man in his image and established him in his friendship. A spiritual creature, man can live this friendship only in free submission to God. The prohibition against eating "of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" spells this out: "for in the day that you eat of it, you shall die." The "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" symbolically evokes the insurmountable limits that man, being a creature, must freely recognize and respect with trust. Man is dependent on his Creator, and subject to the laws of creation and to the moral norms that govern the use of freedom. \n\nAlthough set by God in a state of rectitude man, enticed by the evil one, abused his freedom at the very start of history. Man, tempted by the devil, let his trust in his Creator die in his heart and, abusing his freedom, disobeyed God's command. He lifted himself up against God, and sought to attain his goal apart from him. By his sin Adam, as the first man, lost the original holiness and justice he had received from God, not only for himself but for all human beings.
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I tell you now a story of beauty and tragedy. It begins with Orpheus, the best musician that ever lived. One strum of his lyre, one note sung, and beasts would crawl to him, rocks would move to be closer, trees would leave their places to be near to him. They called him a sorcerer for his power, and perhaps he was, for he was the son of the Muse Calliope.\nHe lived his life simply and carelessly until the day he met Eurydice. She was a Dryad, and their love was perfect and unbreakable. Aristaeus, who saw Eurydice's beauty and desired it, tried to take her unwillingly. She ran from him. Ran in terror, without thought to her step, and so it was she stepped on a viper in her flight. The venom of its bite killed her at once, and Orpheus was inconsolable. His grief was bitter, but he did not let it lull him into a stupor. He decided to take action.\nWith his lyre, Orpheus descended into the Underworld. A normal mortal would have perished any number of times, but Orpheus had his lyre and his voice and he charmed Cerberus - the three-headed monster dog of Hades who guarded the Underworld - into letting him pass. Facing Hades and his cold Queen Persephone he played for them his sorrow at the loss of his love. The heart that was frozen by Hades' abduction melted in Persphone's breast and a tear rolled down her cheek. Even Hades could not help weeping. They let Orpheus through to Eurydice, but warned him very carefully: Eurydice would follow him into the light of the world and once she entered the sunlight she would be changed from a shade back to a woman. But if Orpheus doubted, if he looked back to see her, she would be lost to him forever.\nOrpheus heard and rejoiced. He turned and left the dark hall of Hades and began his ascent back to life. As he walked he rejoiced that his wife would soon be with him again. He listened closely for her footfall behind him, but a shade makes no noise. The closer to the light he got, the more he began to believe that Hades had tricked him to get him out of the Underworld, that Eurydice was not behind him. Only feet away from the light Orpheus lost faith and turned around. He saw Eurydice, but only for a moment as her shade was whisked back down among the other dead souls. She was gone.\nOrpheus tried again to enter the Underworld and demand her return, but one cannot enter twice the same way - and no other way was open to him. All that was left to him was death.\n\nHere the story changes. There are different stories of his death. Some say he played so mournfully that his songs called for death, and that the animals who surrounded him tore him apart, weeping as they did. Some say it was Maenads in a frenzy who ripped the singer to shreds. Some say he was struck down by Zeus for disclosing mysteries that were meant to be kept sacred. Either way, he was torn apart, and much of him was thrown to the winds. But the Muses mourned the death of their son and prodigy, and saved his head to sing forever.
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I like Greek mythology better than any other.  Every character seems to come alive.  Every story fits in with the world as it is.  It is not really about, say, how spiders came to be, or why there are echoes, it really is a guide to life and how to live it.  Oh, and by the way, the boulder guy's name was Sisyphus.
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The world is familiar with Egyptian hieroglyphics.  The world also knows, that things familar to humanity as represented in these writings are not to be taken literally, but represent rather, things spiritual.\n\nThese writings are a derivative of the science of correspondence.\n\nThe science of correspondence, is the science that uses things in nature to represent spiritual truth.\n\nIt for this reason, many scriptures are written in the language of the science of correspondence, but which meanings must be learnt.\n\nIt delighted the ancients to write like this, as they understood the spiritual significance of everthing in their environment, including humanity - in relation to each other and the Creator.\n\nTheists, East and West proclaim a triune God.\n\nAmong humanity, He created womanhood as representing His Divine love (and His greatest creation).  And He created manhood as representing His Divine wisdom, and presented him with His greatest creation to ACT in unison, like Himself.\n\nBecause a woman is the love of a man's wisdom;  a man is the wisdom of a woman's love.  Together they make ONE and ACT as such in harmony with Divine law.\n\nGod therefore, did not "assign" specific roles to men and women, but intended they should both unite as one - as He intended - in serving society in whatever manner they can, each according to his/her abilities.\n\nSpecific roles, based on gender, is man-made and divisive.\n\nPeace,\nSharing
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Well, I have studied mythology from a lot of various religions and the story of a great flood seems to be the one mythological story that is universal (the characters are always different and sometimes they don't build a boat, they climb a certain mountain or hill as instructed by the divine with all the creatures, but it is always basically the same story).\n\nScholars say that the oldest version of the story, atleast that is recorded, would be the one told in Hinduism about a man named Manu who finds a fish in a stream while bathing there. It is little and the fish asks Manu to take it home for safety to help it. So Manu does and the fish continues to outgrow its home and is transfered from one container to the next before finally being so large that Manu finally takes the fish to the ocean to set it free (not sure why the fish went from being a fresh water fish to a salt water fish, but it's a mythological story so let's just accept the story for what it is). Anyways, the fish thanks Manu and then tells Manu that there is going to be a great flood because waters from the North are coming and the ocean is going to rise because the waters of the North along with the rains will cause there levels to rise higher than normal. He advises Manu to gather up two of each animal and two of every seed (plants are included in the Hindu version) and to put them on a boat. Manu builds the boat and does as he is asked and just as the fish predicted, the waters start to rise. Well after a month of the ocean rising, the waters start to recede. The fish returns, but this time with a horn on its head. He calls out to Manu to tie a rope to the horn on the fish and so Manu does. The fish then toes the boat to the top of a nearby mountain and tells Manu to let everything go (the mountain in the story is not specified). Manu, having realized that the fish is God (the aspect of Vishnu) offers praise to God and is grateful for the help. (It is important to remember that in this story God is not punishing mankind or nature, but instead that the flooding is caused by natural things. the waters of the north are thought to refer to the ice melting and this along with the rains, implying that it is the normal cycle of rains, is what made the waters rise. Thus in this story God is preserving all life not punishing it. It's important to remember that Hindus believe that life reincarnates so more than two of the animals and seeds; male and female; would have been sufficient just to repopulate that type of creature and the others that may have perished would have been reincarnated. A bit different than the later versions, the Biblical version, where the flood is a punishment from God and only two of every animal are also spared; apparently even the animals were being bad??). This story is in one of the oldest Puranas of Hinduism (the only books older are the Vedas and the Upanishads). \n\nNow, many scholars believe there may be older versions of the story. However, being a practicing Hindu there is one aspect I can't help but overlook and that is that when Hinduism tells a mythological story then it isn't to be believed that the things actually happened just as the story is telling you. In fact, most Hindu mythological stories have a deeper meaning to them. The symbolism of the story represents aspects of our inner self and all the various symbolism is describing things about ourself and the processes we go through on our spiritual journey. That said, the flood may have in fact never happened and that the flood may be a symbolic tool used in the story (along with Manu, the fish and all the containers...because the story makes a point to describe all the containers which seems excedingly boring to read actually and sort of over makes the case that the fish is getting bigger). \n\nFrom Hindu India, the story then changed when it entered Zoroastrian Persia (Zoroaster is actually mentioned in the Hindu Vedas as a teacher that later it say