In the Odessey, Odyssues is shown and proven to have the proper traits for a good leader. Homer in a way tried his best to capture the fact that Odysseus knew his place when it came to being a leader, and knew what he had to do to keep everyone safe. He had to show his respect to the gods and kept his promise all throughout the story.A leader should be able to communicate effectively to their followers, lead everyone to safety, treat everyone equally, and know the difference between good and bad. Odysseus knew that in order to respect the gods he couldn’t eat the cattle. Knowing something bad would happen if the men did, he warned everyone. He was committed and didn’t eat for days. Although we all know and expect certain actions and responsibilities …show more content…
Leaders like Odysseus know what their responsibilities are and know there places. The author of the Odyssey gives us a leader who knows how to lead everyone. The only problem is the crew didn’t listen to him. “Eurylochus had been giving evil counsel to the men. ‘Listen to me’ said he, ‘my poor comrades. All deaths are bad enough but there is none so bad as famine.” The crew wanted to listen to Odyssues, but famine was too strong and easy to give up by eating the cattle. (Second paragraph in “The Odyssey, book XII”)After Odysseus found out about the betrayal they brought upon themselves and the gods, days pass and the men continued to feast on the cattle. Odysseus couldn’t do anything about it, however, he didn’t bother to eat. “For six days my men kept driving in the best cows and feasting upon them” This continued until they were tricked to put out to sea, where all the men except odyssues were killed. (Ninth paragraph in “The Odyssey, book …show more content…
In this case the king had control over all civilians and people he loved. The author explained that the king was semi-barbaric and had large, “florid, and untrammeled” ideas. Although he knew the responsibilities he had to overtake, he believes that they should all choose their future. (First paragraph, “The Lady and the Tiger”)With the semi barbaric ways he would express the anger of fate. Fate lead the person convicted of a crime to their future. It’s between death and a hilarious wedding. However, his power was the control of love and hate. The control blinded him which lead to him expressing the outcomes of using power to the wrong of his
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The reason for this is because his pride gets the best of him. Another reason is he does not listen to the advice he is given. Some may think that he is admirable because he’s saved his men, but they are wrong because he has also puts his needs before theirs constantly and this results in situations that endanger the lives of his men. All these traits go against what a hero is and prevents him from being a good leader, or person in general. A hero does not have to be perfect, but Odysseus’ enormous flaws make him far from the hero he could
When people think of Odysseus, they think of a great, cunning, warrior. Who wouldn’t see him that way, he fought his way through Troy and embarked on a journey back home to see his son and wife again. On the surface Odysseus seems like a genius but in Homer’s, The Odyssey, Odysseus shows many instances where he outwits his foes but his foolishness heavily outweighs his smarts; he becomes boastful after a victory which leads to more hardships, he leaves precious cargo in the open for his brutish crew to mess with, and refuses help from the gods which nearly leads to his demise.
Odysseus is one of the most renowned warriors of all time. However, many historians argue that he was one of the worst leaders in all of literature and humanity. Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus has shown traits unbefitting of a leader and king. Odysseus is a lousy leader because he is arrogant, disloyal, and selfish.
Odysseus is strong, loyal and brave. Odysseus is referred as being strong and hard working. He is the friend you'd want to call for help to finish all the tasks you need to finish. Odysseus is strong and hard-working, but above it, he is the hardest working for anyone else. Odysseus has never ordered his men to do something he won't or can't do. He manages to constantly challenge himself more than his men. Odysseus is a born leader based on all of his qualities. He isn't ruling his men around him because he wants power. Odysseus was born to become a great leader and have control and powered. He is not a lazy slacker who is bossing his servants around; instead, he is next to the building and cutting on whatever task needs to occur to complete his ship. Eurylochos could have complained about overworking and not having time to relax, but Eurylochos recognizes Odysseus work ethic and respects him for
...at he has to say. Honestly I think that Odysseus was is a great leader because, he tried his best to keep his crew safe, he never gave up on them; even if they were in a bad situation.
Before letting him leave the island, Circe tells Odysseus that he must face Scylla, a sea monster, and Charybdis, a whirlpool. Circe says, “Better by far to lose six men and keep you ship” (274). Odysseus is told beforehand that no ship could pass unscathed, but he chooses to not to tell his crew. He knowingly sacrifices his crewmembers’ lives and has no qualms about it, which shows his inner selfishness. He makes sure to protect his own life, but he sees his crew as disposable. Homer characterizes Odysseus this way in order to convey his views about humanity: humans are instinctively selfish. Odysseus also carelessley kills his remaining crew when he taunts the Cyclops. After hearing Odysseus’s name, Polyphemus prays to Poseidon and asks that Odysseus “never reaches home” but if he is destined to return, make sure he returns “a broken man—all shipmates lost, alone in a strangers ship” (228). If Odysseus had never told Polyphemus his name, he and his crew might have made it home more quickly and safely. Instead, his hubris causes an inescapable curse. Odysseus cannot bear the thought of forfeiting his fame, which leads to even more hardship on his quest to return home. Homer uses Odysseus to demonstrate the danger of egotistical
In The Odyssey, book nine and ten written by Homer, Odysseus constantly embodies the principal characteristics of a hero which are : cleverness, leadership, and selflessness. Thus, this character is regarded as an idol among the other characters and greatly captures the reader’s sympathy for his choices and the fruit to his actions in life. First, Odysseus displays cleverness in Book Nine when he tricks the Cyclops Poluphemus that his name is “nobody” in order to escape the horrors of the cyclop’s cave. He states: “Nobody--so my mother and father call me, all my friends” (Homer, 18). Second, Odysseus is a brave leader of his army especially in book ten when he displays leadership by motivating his comrades in keep trying to sail despite the
When Odysseus visits the land of the dead in book 11 to consult the dead seer Teiresias, Teiresias gives him several pieces of advice. One main thing he tells Odysseus is, “If only you have the strength and will to control your men’s appetites. And your own from the moment when your good ship leaves the deep blue sea and approaches the isle of Thrinacie. There you will find at their pasture the cattle and the fat flocks of the Sun-god, whose eyes and ears miss nothing in the world. If you leave them untouched and fix your mind on returning home, there is some chance that all of you may yet return to Ithaca, though not without suffering. But if you hurt them I predict that your ship and company will be destroyed, and if you yourself contrive to escape, you will reach home late, in a wretched state, upon a foreign ship, having lost all of your comrades.” (Homer, The Odyssey, 143) When Odysseus and his men land on the island of Thrinacie, Odysseus warns his crew not to butcher any of the cattle they see. However, his men do not follow Odysseus’s advice and butcher several cattle out of hunger. As a result, when Odysseus and his crew finally leave the island, Zeus blasts their ship with a lightning bolt (as revenge for Helios/the Sun-god) causing every man to perish with the exception of Odysseus. In short, Teiresias gives advice to Odysseus to not butcher any of
As part of the hero profile, one would have to be determined, and Odysseus certainly was. If a hero is determined, they only have one goal in mind. To be determined, the hero goes through perils and challenges and most importantly they can never lose hope. Likewise, Odysseus has a goal: to make it home to Ithaka to see his family. Even if Odysseus faced the most life-threatening things, he wouldn't back down. "I long...trial come." (Book V, Lines 229-233). Odysseus has his mind set straight, and he won't let anyone or anything change it. Also, Odysseus never doubted himself as a leader. He had an sufficient amount of failures, yet he wouldn't put himself down and give up. For example, He neglected to take the advice from his crew member, Eurylochus. Eurylochus told Odysseus not to send men to see what was on Circe's island and because he sent them anyway, they ended up being turned into pigs. Odysseus made a mistake, but that didn't stop him from venturing on. Although Odysseus has failed as a leader, he was still determined to become better. For example, when Odysseus and his crew arrive at the land of Ismaros, he specifically tells them to not touch the sheep. Odysseus warns his crew, yet he fails to establish a connection with them. They disobey Odysseus and butcher sheep after sheep, which ...
After Eurylochus and his men decided to kill the cattle, they knew their was gonna be consequences. There was no reason to kill the cattle. By Eurylochus and his men killing Helios’s cattle, Odysseus was furious once he found out. They broke their oath, which meant their destruction. Eurylochus and his men should have never killed Helios's cattle.
Even though they are starving, Odysseus tells his men not to eat the cattle, but they end up eating it. Lord Helios is very angry and loudly expresses, “O Father Zeus and gods in bliss forever,/punish Odysseus’ men! So overweening,/now they have killed my peaceful kine, my joy/at morning when I climbed the sky of stars,/and evening, when I bore westward from heaven” (12.908-911). Odysseus falls asleep and blames it on the gods because he couldn’t watch to make sure his men don’t eat the cattle. After he wakes up, Odysseus realizes the men are eating the cattle, and Lord Helios is extremely upset.
The challenges that Homer give the protagonist is all a test of character. Odysseus continues to pass the obstacles with flying colors, but his arrogance is the one flaw that is in dire need of correction. Some of the many challenges Odysseus overcomes on his voyage home is defeating the Cicones, surviving the Island of the Lotus Eaters, outsmarting the Giant Cyclops, saving his men from Circe, Traveling to Hades, passing between Scylla and Charybdis, escaping Calypsos’ Island and many more. Odysseus survives these obstacles and uses his smarts to escape near disaster. Often times he was the only one to survive these things and his crew often lost their lives due to their own stupidity. “‘We left the island and resumed our journey in a state of gloom; and the heart was taken out of my men by the wearisome rowing. But was our own stupidity that had deprived us of the wind.’”(P127 L75-79) Odysseus shows how he is an extraordinary man by being much smarter than his crew and the men that follow him. As a part of this stripping of Odysseus, Homer shows that Odysseus is a collective symbol of Everyman. On the one hand Odysseus is a great warrior, who is extremely intelligent, noble, and a great man. Although he has many god- like qualities he is still human. He shows that he is human and like every man, because of the fact that he still has major flaws. The
Ayrton Senna is the protagonist in his story, the “best” driver to ever walk the earth and best race car (Formula 1) driver to ever come across motorsport. His great skill of driving was supernatural, no one could beat him. Sadly he died on May 1, 1994 in a fatal crash which is very ironic because before the race started, Senna told his team he was wary that he was going to crash and he prayed the night before not to lose his life the next day. But he is still remembered as the best driver on the planet and he will most likely be for a long time. Homer wrote the Odyssey and the main character is Odysseus.
What is leadership, and how do we attain the best and most effective leaders? These are questions that are as old as civilization itself. Bass (1974) wrote that, “from its infancy, the study of history has been the study of leaders” (as cited in Wren, 1995, p. 50). Since the study of history in the West is commonly held to begin with Herodotus of ancient Athens, it is not surprising that we should examine the historical views of leadership through the eyes of two titans of Greek thought: Plato and Aristotle.