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A 5 page paper which examines two scenes involving refuge
within a bush in Homer’s Odyssey. The first scene involves Odysseus hiding in a bush
when he lands on Scheria. The other scene involves a boar that Odysseus is hunting who
is seeking refuge in a bush. No additional sources cited.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAodybor.rtf
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quite subtle if not symbolic. Such is likely the case in Homers Odyssey which uses several instances wherein nature is a protector as well as a possible keeper of danger.
In better understanding the possible connections the following paper examine two different scenes from Homers work. The scenes discussed involving Odysseus hiding amongst the bushes, in Book V, and a
boar hiding among similarly built bushes prior to goring Odysseus as a young man, in Book XIX. The Bushes In the first scene to be discussed Odysseus has
just made it to the land of Scheria and is home, though he must still hide for he wants to ensure that he can take care of things before his
people know he is home. He is exhausted and thinks, "If, on the other hand, I climb the hill side, find shelter in the woods, and sleep in some thicket,
I may escape the cold and have a good nights rest, but some savage beast may take advantage of me and devour me" (Homer V). At this point we see
him thinking of the potential dangers, the natural dangers that exist. He is a man who has probably grown in wisdom and caution through his travels and he does not
wish to take any chances, yet knows he must rest. The place he found to hide is described as follows: "he crept beneath two shoots of olive that grew from
a single stock- the one an ungrafted sucker, while the other had been grafted. No wind, however squally, could break through the cover they afforded, nor could the suns rays
pierce them, nor the rain get through them, so closely did they grow into one another. Ulysses crept under these and began to make himself a bed to lie on,
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