The Odyssey Themes

What’re the 5 themes in the odyssey?

\-Greek Culture

\-Divine Intervention

\-Hubris

\-Hospitality

\-Revenge

“A poor show, that—hitting this famished tramp— bad business, if he happened to be a god. You know they go in foreign guise, the gods do, looking like strangers, turning up in towns and settlements to keep an eye on manners, good or bad.”

Greek culture because the greek traditions or part of their value is how they act toward people because the person can be a god in disguise testing them. When a guest comes, people should offer them hospitality and provide food and shelter.

Circe helping odysseus get to the underworld to seek the blind prophet. She gives him a ewe and a ram to sacrifice.

Divine intervention, a immortal or goddess is helping a mortal

Aeolus helping Odysseus and giving him a bag of unfavorable winds so that the favorable winds can take him back home.

Divine intervention. A immortal god is helping a mortal odysseus .

Odysseus revealing him name to polyphemus the cyclops letting him know who outsmarted him and took his eye.

Hubris. Odysseus let his pride take over and wanted to let Polyphemus know who outsmarted him.

When odysseus (disguised as a beggar) came to eumaeus and euamus let him to stay and offered the beggar food.

Hospitality

Poseidon gets revenge and makes Odysseus’ journey home difficult because he took Poseidon’s son, Polyphemus’s eye.

Revenge, father and son revenge motifs.

Telemachus helps odysseus kill the suitors and for odysseus to get back revneg for the suitors overunning his palaca, take his food, pestering his wife and child.

Revenge, father and son motifs

Odysseus men performing a prayer and ritual before they kill and eat lord Helios swine.

Greek culture