Midlife Crisis: Iliad and Odyssey by Homer

Academic Paper from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Comparative Literature, University of Cooperative Education Villingen-Schwenningen, language: English, abstract: Midlife crisis is a phenomenon characterized by much turmoil in one’s life on the realisation that mortality is inevitable and achievements and desires have not been satisfied. The Greek poet, Homer, in his two poems, O...