Odyssey and Aneid
...o guide Telemachus and Hermes rescues Odysseus from Calypso. The men leave women behind, whether it was Odysseus leaving Penelope or Aeneas leaving Dido, the two went to take part in their journeys. The heroes in the stories are leaders who are able to motivate their men in the face of adversity and are compassionate and sympathetic, capable of delivering speeches to their fleets to keep the men’s spirits high. Compassionate and sympathetic in the way Odysseus weeps with the reuniting of his men after they were turned into pigs and back into men, always going back for them and fighting for them. Aeneas shows a softer side when he allows those who were cripples or unwilling to stay behind and not have to make the journey. Hold values true in tradition Aeneas -Piety; evidence of this when Aeneas carries his father out of battle. Odysseus -cunning; especially when he schemes a design that will save their lives as well as use the Cyclops stupidity as their advantage. Odysseus and Aeneas must fight the suitor of the one they love, killing them in the end. Antinous and the others in the Odyssey and Turnus in the Aeneid. Have sons with the goal to display bravery and leadership in the footsteps of their fathers Both Odysseus and Aeneas have supportive fathers. Even after Anchises’s death in the Aeneid, he continues to help Aeneas. Laertes in the Odyssey really supports Odysseus in the end by putting a stop to the attack of the family members of the slain suitors on Odysseus and his family. Adversaries or antagonists throughout the books who out of spite continuously try to sabotage their missions Aeneas -Juno , Odysseus -Poseidon with a bitter grudge against Odysseus for blinding his son Polyphemus, a Cyclops and Juno due to the verdict of the beauty contest and Paris denying her superior. Women as seductresses, Juturna and Calypso. The books incorporate a female god that watches over and offers a special divine protection from the harm brought on by the gods that oppose them, Aeneas -Venus , Odysseus - Athena, Worthy of the honor and favor the gods bestow upon them because they both in spite of emotional impulses that conflict with their duties keep on track. Many...