After listening to the Psychiatrist Counsels Vets With Odyssey Audio, what are you thinking about the The Iliad And The Odyssey? Please specify your thoughts using a dynamic topic sentence and supporting evidence. After listening to the audio clip, please respond during class. Blog response due by Fri., May 14th.
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The struggles of soldiers seem to be the same from different wars, but in the Greek hero world, they all follow the almost same "Heroic Code." In this way, the soldiers can be compared to heros that journey across the world. They are also supposed to travel together to maintain decent mental states and happiness, which in the Greek world if travelers are split up in any way, it tends to have a large impact.
There are many similarities between "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" and these books can help soldiers. The soldiers feel validated because they know that what they feel is okay. They can see similarities between soldiers from Vietnam and the people fighting in "The Iliad" and that can help our world help our soldiers.
The Illiad and the odyssey are simalar. Both have god's influence on the story and both make mistakes along the way to get them to the resolution. We might not take the right path along the way but it's how we learn and how we get to the main goal in the end.
Theres lots of comparison in this podcast. Talking about WWII vets and odyssey in the same context is kind of crazy considering how many of the comparisons are actually correct.- Mia M
Natalia- in this podcast he talks about how he is an influential voice in the pentagon and studies greek mythology. his views mostly come from the Iliad and odysey. especially since the veterans were in war they can relate to the heroes just as odysseus. He read the book achellis in vietnam which is obviously a fiction but shows the hero aspect. He says most of the struggles are the same in most of the soldiers and even goes back to all of Ancient Greece. He also talks about how scenes in the odyssey relate to our life today
The podcast he speaks about the affect of perception on a person. People form a perception of things they may not be completely familiar with. It shows human nature of creating ideas in your head. - Zeke
The trial and hardships that soldiers go through can be related to what Odysseus goes through in the Odyssey. Odysseus is also in a way told how he should have felt when they write his story which is similar to the vets when they returned from war.
The feelings and experiences of those involved in war are constant throughout history. Civilians who have not experienced war cannot understand the struggle of those who have been through war have been through combat. The fact this appears in the epic works of Ancient Greece authors serves as a way for returning veterans to feel as through they are not alone in their struggle.
After listening to the audio, I am thinking that greek literature, specifically "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey", are very similar to what veterans and people in general experience. What veterans go through during and after war compares to what the characters in "The Illiad" go through. For example, in the audio, Joseph Shapiro talked about how veterans understood the feelings of loss and guilt that the characters in "The Illiad experienced. "The Odyssey" compares to what people experience because it is a story about adventure, choices, and hardship, all things that people have to go through in life.
The harsh conditions of soldiers during the Vietnam war weren’t just the fatalities and wet climate, but also the separation from the known. In the podcast, the extremely revered professor talks about how soldier’s shouldn’t of been thrown into a loop of different barracks. With evidence dating back to the odyssey and the illiads, the professor believes that war is absent of continuity by itself, and a concrete group of soldiers would help endure through this continuous unknown.
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