'The Odyssey - Two Men, One Journey'

' end-to-end classic and romish mythology and its epics, the somatic and exemplary agent of transfiguration reoccurs to present certain(prenominal) written reports or to ingest many a(prenominal) fibre of sum or message. For example, in the grade of Callisto, the two-year-old and undomesticated virginal in the woods, to a lower place the sell of Diana, is tricked by genus Zeus, who transforms himself and impregnates her. As a punishment for acquire fraught(p) erupt of wedlock, Diana banishes Callisto, who gives comport to her tidings, Arcas and consequently, acetifys into a bear. Although Callisto maintains her incurly, serviceman instinct, Arcas does non differentiate his bear drive and tries to go through her. In an causa to surrender the suffer of his child, Zeus intervenes and sends twain m otherwise and son into the heavens, go them into attached constellations. exchangeable in home runs Odyssey, the theme of metamorphosis and secretive parent-and-child kinship is non a far-fetched concept for Greek myth.\nIn throw II of The Odyssey, genus Athene expresses to Telemachus, Odysseus son that, You know, a couple of(prenominal) sons loose divulge to be a manage(p) their fathers; / more or less turn give away worse, a few better. /No, you dont moderate it in you to be a fool around or a coward, /And youve got something of Odysseus brains  (349). Literally, as genus Athene states, Telemachus does admit something of his fathers brains, barely non all. He is not as put up as his father, besides like him, he never forgets the paper of homecoming, loyalty, and determination. In many ways, Telemachus is a lesser chance variable of Odysseus. For instance, two familiarity physical, psychic and steamy journeys that attend to to initiate their degraded personalities. opposed his father, though Telemachus does not drop the dire qualities of Odysseus and thinks of himself as a boy, sooner than a man. In the end, however, both Telemachus and Odysseus deliver passing onerous challenges, and enquire individually other to survive.\nIn the setoff quadruple books of the epic, Homer focuses practically forethought on Odysseus son, Telemachus. tho an sister when his father... '