External Conflicts In The Odyssey

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Three thousand years ago in a beautiful part of the world that is now known as Greece was a remarkable story about a man named Odysseus king of Ithaca and his odyssey home after the ten-year Trojan War. In the story,"The Odyssey ", by Homer,Odysseus a cosmopolite, brave, courageous, and heroic man is struggling to get back home to Ithaca after the ten-year war with the Trojans, he faces many external conflicts on his journey home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus but he first must face all the obstacles the gods put in his way. The external conflicts Odysseus faces on his way home such as sea monsters, giants, enchantress, sirens and being held captive by a goddess reveal and examine his many character traits as a hero.
Odysseus has

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