The Odyssey - Book 12

The tapestries of superannuated texts are woven with the duds of someones and immortals. The Bible, Koran, Epic of Gilgamesh, Emerald Tablet of superannuated Egypt, and the disk of Enoch are save a few among the populacey a(prenominal) standing testaments to ancient mans yearning for soul and belonging, ofttimes discovering answers outside of the visible and logical. In turn, the myths, songs, poems, and stories of ancient Greece image solace and kin to former(a) ancient writings. Their culture and beliefs maelstrom within words, revealing the thoroughfare of humanity and its inevitable intertwining with the heaven-sent, exemplified by the narrative of the Greek hero, Odysseus in homing pigeons The Odyssey. As highlighted in Book 12, Homer depicts Odysseus as a mortal struggling to tame and overcome a fate fare course by gods, whose firmness and abilities find favor and move with the same gods, and reveals Homers stimulate convictions of the divine and its bure au within human lives.\nThe superhuman is an un rescindable element in the epic The Odyssey, and is equally of import to Odysseus fate as his own decisions and actions. The foundation for the roads roach in motion for him was often the handiwork of the god Poseidon, tempestuous at Odysseus success at Troy, and the blinding of his son. It is by Poseidons divinity, fueled by his thirstiness for revenge, Odysseus is pitted against the mythological (McLeish p. #). period the hurdles placed before Odysseus were based on divine choices, it is his reactions to those hurdles which ultimately steered his fate. Odysseus repeatedly uses his wits, ruses, deceptions, and analytical thought to chafe himself out of scrapes (Lawson p. #). In Book 12, Odysseus is warned of the Sirens, Skylla, Charybdis, and the dangers of the Thrinaian island by Kirke. All of these obstacles are beyond his control, but he is given advice on how to avoid them, or how to suffer the least(prenominal) amount of lose. In his control are his own actions, lea...