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Examples Of Moment Of Glory In The Odyssey

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In Book 23 of “The Odyssey” Homer uses imagery to show Odysseus’s moment of glory after wiping out the suitors. Odysseus was found, “...in the thick of slaughtered corpses;/there he stood and all around him, over the beaten floor,/ the bodies sprawled in heaps, lying one on another.../How it would have thrilled your heart to see him-/Splattered with bloody filth, a lion with his kill” (23. 48-52). The slaughtered corpses made the scene visually appealing, emphasizing Odysseus’s victory at last against the suitors. In the reader’s mind Odysseus is proven to be a hero by defeating the suitors accomplishing the author’s purpose to show a significant moment of glory for Odysseus.
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