JLE#17: Topic Research Sinbad
Sinbad
Sinbad Research:
Just by reading the Wiki for Sinbad the Sailor I have come to find a lot of Arab writers were influenced by Greek writing when the story was written. The voyages of Sinbad have a lot in common with the adventures of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
In this story, Sinbad finds himself on an island with his crew in search of adventure and riches. He takes nap only to find when awakens that his entire ship and crew have left him. He has to escape large predatory birds from attacking him and finds a way to hitch a ride on one of them. The bird (Roc) takes him to a dangerous valley full of diamonds and large snakes. Another merchant crew was there and he is then able to join with them and return to Baghdad. There is a lot to work with in this particular voyage of Sinbad because he travels to multiple locations. The encounters he has are surreal and leave it open to the imagination when it comes to writing a story off of the current information.
In this story Sinbad goes on his third and most riveting voyage yet. Sinbad and his crew arrive on an island in search of more fortune only to find that the island is inhabited by things that seek to destroy to them. The crew then encounters small, but numerous dwarves who capture their ship from them and escape with it. The men then encounter one of the most famous fairy tale creatures, a cyclops. During my research of this topic, I found that this voyage is very similar to that of Homer's Odysseus. Upon further inspection it is said that the third voyage of Sinbad is in fact based off the adventure of Odysseus and his men and the cyclops Polyphemus.
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