A study of the characters Odysseus and Poseidon as depicted in Homers Odyssey

An investigation of the characters Odysseus and Poseidon as delineated in Homer's Odyssey After the occasions of the Trojan War, Odysseus and his men headed back home to Ithaca. In transit, they unwittingly halted at the island of the Cyclopes to accumulate supplies for their long excursion home. Shockingly, the occupants of the island were not agreeable †especially one Cyclops named Polyphemus. While trying to avoid different mammoths, Odysseus and his men stowed away in Polyphemus’s cavern. Polyphemus then caught the men inside with a huge stone hindering the main path in and out. Individually, Polyphemus ate Odysseus’s group. Odysseus, keeping a level head, thought of an arrangement to get away. Odysseus had some undiluted wine with the rest of his personal effects, and cunningly offered it to Polyphemus without revealing to him how solid the wine was. Polyphemus energetically took the wine, got alcoholic, and quickly nodded off. Odysseus and his outstanding men warmed a wooden stake in a fire, and continued to dazzle Polyphemus’s one eye. Subsequent to crying in torment, the men stowed away under the giant’s sheep, where they couldn't be felt and eaten. The following morning, when Polyphemus let his sheep out to touch, Odysseus and his men escaped underneath the sheep’s wooly paunches, and ran away to their boat. Polyphemus understood that the men had gotten away after Odysseus was at that point adrift. Polyphemus tossed an (ineffectively pointed) rock at the boat, and shouted to his dad Poseidon for retaliation. Poseidon, in his wrath, annihilated Odysseus’s transport, just a s his whole group, over a ten-year venture back to Ithaca. Odysseus just endure in light of the fact that he had Athena’s favor and security. Odysseus’s Argument: Odysseus was carrying on of self-protection. As skipper and ruler, he had an obligation to ensure himself and his men no matter what. He utilized his brains to get away from a dangerous circumstance. He additionally didn't have a clue about that Polyphemus was child of Poseidon. Notwithstanding who Polyphemus was, Odysseus didn't slaughter him, in spite of the risk against Odysseus and his team; it would have been similarly as simple to execute him while alcoholic or sleeping. Poseidon, being a divine being, carries on of extraordinary feeling, and concludes that the injury of his child warrants mass-murder. Odysseus thought reasonably and saved the man-eating Polyphemus; Poseidon acted unreasonably, and annihilated Odysseus’s group. Poseidon could have been increasingly kind and cleared out Odysseus and his group rapidly. Rather Poseidon broadened Odysseus’s discipline and made him endure as he watched his whole beyond words the course of ten years. Besides, this all-i nclusive excursion caused disturbance in Odysseus’s Kingdom of Ithaca. At the point when Odysseus left for Troy, his child, Telemachus, was too youthful to even consider taking the position of authority. This left Penelope running the whole nation. While Odysseus was gone, admirers came to court Penelope, assaulting his royal residence while they were there. Since there was no verification that Odysseus endure the Trojan War, the admirers continually constrained Penelope to remarry. She would not like to, rather slowing down the admirers until Odysseus returned in light of the fact that she accepted that he was as yet alive. Poseidon’s Argument: Before Poseidon did anything to Odysseus, he needed to get his thought endorsed by Zeus, lord of the divine beings. Moreover, Odysseus was in Poseidon’s area, the sea, for the greater part of his excursion, which places Odysseus in a tricky position as of now. Poseidon’s expected objective was Odysseus; the remainder of the team was blow-back, yet additionally genuinely hurt Odysseus. Odysseus realized he was in the area of a god that could wreck him on each level; he had a lot of chances to prepare himself on the off chance that things turned out badly. Poseidon, as a divinity, requests more regard than a run of the mill human. In Poseidon’s mind, this exceptional treatment stretches out to his child. Harming his child Polyphemus was viewed as an individual affront. Obscure to Odysseus, he had divine security from Athena †an adversary god to Poseidon. Consequently, Poseidon previously didn't care for Odysseus; wounding Polyphemus in the eye just added to Poseidon’s scorn. Poseidon didn't hurt Odysseus, yet caused him to endure, much the same as his child, by executing his men gradually. Let the discipline fit the wrongdoing. In addition, there are times when Odysseus was narrow minded, however truly disrespectful. While Penelope was maintaining her marriage pledges, Odysseus had an unsanctioned romance with Circe, a sorceress who had transformed his men into pigs while he had his indulgence. He additionally purposely went past the island of the Sirens, since he needed to hear their melody for himself. At long last, he permitted his men to eat holy cows of the god Helios for seven days. This one demonstration denounced his whole armada, boat and men, to annihilation. Zeus hit the boat with lightning, compelling Odysseus to swim to an island and live with a Calypso, an ocean sprite, for a long time. The remainder of his men suffocated. This shows Odysseus didn't generally regard the divine beings, and acted egotistically at whatever point it fit him.