Topic > Homer's Iliad and Calabin: Homer and Caliban

Here, Homer provides a wide range of descriptions of monsters as they range from monsters to humans. In general, Homer describes monsters as mental or physical and sometimes deceitful and boastful beings. For example, Cyclops or Polyphemus traps Odysseus and his men and eats some of them (IX.402-403). In contrast, Homer describes a villain as mean, disloyal, and selfish like Achilles, who is portrayed as an excessive villain in the Iliad. Achilles is a great villain as he stays at home almost all the time and constantly argues with Agamemnon. In contrast, the mother is described as a sexual object used by men for the satisfaction of physical needs and wealth, as shown in