So, I'm writing an essay about the Odyssey

Watch the Odyssey movie with Christopher Lee (aka Count Dooku, aka Francisco Scaramanga, aka Sauromon). It's pretty hilarious.

As for the book, we read like one chapter in my English class and never touched it again. What's the essay about, though? I know it's about the essay, but what's the specific prompt?

20 pages? That bites. Like what Guild said, what is the prompt?

Just type up 15 pages of the book as a quote to back up your 2 page argument.

Man, I thought you were writing an essay about Etrian Odyssey.

[quote name='ortomedius' post='2569240' date='Jan 31 2010, 04:46 PM']Man, I thought you were writing an essay about Etrian Odyssey. [/quote]

I thought you meant the Magnavox Odyssey...If that was the case, you could have written about it being the first home video game console, or how you needed to use those crappy overlay things for each "game." But I haven't read the Odyssey, so I can't really help with that.

Obviously don't quote Wikipedia in your references, but they have a section on Cultural Impact based on the poem if you've not already seen it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey#Cultural_impact

There's also a Simpsons episode where Homer plays Odysseus, although I can't find the name of it, or the season it was in.

[quote name='Magoo222' post='2569431' date='Jan 31 2010, 05:33 PM']There's also a Simpsons episode where Homer plays Odysseus, although I can't find the name of it, or the season it was in.[/quote]
"Tales from the Public Domain" - 13x14.

[quote name='ProtoKun7' post='2569439' date='Jan 31 2010, 06:36 PM'][quote name='Magoo222' post='2569431' date='Jan 31 2010, 05:33 PM']There's also a Simpsons episode where Homer plays Odysseus, although I can't find the name of it, or the season it was in.[/quote]
"Tales from the Public Domain" - 13x14.
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Aha! Cheers, even though it wasn't really for me it would have really annoyed me!

I will echo the call for an essay title- few would say "the Odyssey..... get to it."

I assume you are reading a translated version, if you are reading the original greek then you can prattle on about phrasing (it is a poem after all and one made for a time when it would have to be spoken) and/or dactylic hexameter. Some translations attempt to keep such things but in my experience come off very forced. 20 pages sounds like big project and/or relatively high level work so maybe comparing translations.

"Cultural Impact" is one thing but if you can work it back and say something about the iliyad or more likely the Aeneid- another book with large sections on a similar subject but from a different perspective (always a winner in any medium).
While not quite as evident as the Aeneid the Odyssey does tie up a fair amount of folklore/legend.

Films, I recall some the other year but in possibly the most stupid deviation from original text I have seen Achilles survived as was in the horse- reading any account it was my understanding that the whole point of the horse was because Achilles was dead (they have taken our best, time for more something other than traditional warfare sort of thing).

As you asked for links though http://www.temple.edu/classics/odysseyho/index.html http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MINOA/HOMER.HTM
Most of the links I have are straight up translations.

If it were the Iliad i would of literally gave you the whole essay.

[quote name='FAST6191' post='2569586' date='Jan 31 2010, 07:43 PM']I will echo the call for an essay title- few would say "the Odyssey..... get to it."

I assume you are reading a translated version, if you are reading the original greek then you can prattle on about phrasing (it is a poem after all and one made for a time when it would have to be spoken) and/or dactylic hexameter. Some translations attempt to keep such things but in my experience come off very forced. 20 pages sounds like big project and/or relatively high level work so maybe comparing translations.

"Cultural Impact" is one thing but if you can work it back and say something about the iliyad or more likely the Aeneid- another book with large sections on a similar subject but from a different perspective (always a winner in any medium).
While not quite as evident as the Aeneid the Odyssey does tie up a fair amount of folklore/legend.

Films, I recall some the other year but in possibly the most stupid deviation from original text I have seen Achilles survived as was in the horse- reading any account it was my understanding that the whole point of the horse was because Achilles was dead (they have taken our best, time for more something other than traditional warfare sort of thing).

As you asked for links though http://www.temple.edu/classics/odysseyho/index.html http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MINOA/HOMER.HTM
Most of the links I have are straight up translations.[/quote]
Thanks! I can write a lot about the Aeneid, we read part of it in class, so I already know quite a lot of it and the comparison shouldn't be much of a problem

[quote name='Maz7006' post='2569595' date='Jan 31 2010, 07:48 PM']If it were the Iliad i would of literally gave you the whole essay.[/quote]
Damn, I knew I should've picked the Iliad D:


Also, I knew about the Simpsons episode, that's the reason I chose the Odyssey as subject But thanks anyways


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