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    The document compares Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The Iliad focuses on the serious, dramatic portrayal of human nature during conflict between personal desires and community responsibility. It has a complicated plot and depicts warriors rewarded for honor. The Odyssey focuses on the fantastic adventures of a hero who overcomes dangers through strength of will. It has a simpler, episodic plot and portrays the hero rewarded for loyalty despite opposition from fate and nature. The works differ in their genres, themes, characters, and portrayal of divine justice.

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    Comparison of Homer=s Iliad and Odyssey

    Iliad

    Odyssey

    Genre

    Primary Epic - Realistic, psychological

    Primary Epic - Romantic, archetypal

    Theme/
    concerns

    Serious
    Dramatic portrayal of humans
    Study of human nature
    Conflicts between a person=s own wishes and
    responsibility to community

    Adventure, perhaps the greatest in literature


    Fantastic portrayal of world
    Exploration of monsters and dangers
    Conflict between a person=s personal commitment and
    effort and the forces of fate and nature arrayed
    against him

    Plot

    Complicated and deep

    Simple and episodic

    Hero

    Skill as warrior
    Reward of honor

    Strength of will, purpose, and mind


    Reward for loyalty and faith

    Moral
    issues

    Complex characters who share a mixture of good and


    evil

    Simple issues between binary oppositions of good and evil


    Heroes and villains
    Attention to others, especially servants and beggars

    Characters

    Aristocracy: Warriors, Priests, and Gods

    Cross-section of Mycenaean world

    Women

    Prizes of honor

    Women in position of power


    Penelope
    - smart
    - creative
    - beautiful
    - loyal
    Bed - tests for Odysseus

    Divine
    Justice

    Gods reward or punish by whim or personal bias

    Divine justice exists


    Gods punish those who act improperly, even Odysseus

    Developed by Linda Reaves. Revised by Bill Stifler, Chattanooga State, 2005

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