Cyrus Maximus: The Tragic Hero Of Homer's Odyssey

Once upon a time there were a band of caravan raiders. They had banded together to survive the street life of orphans. Now older they still were friends and relied on one and another as a team.
Cyrus Maximus, their acting leader was born in Saudi Arabia. He was traveling with his caravan when a desert storm hit them, panic was soon followed by chaos when the camels where knocked of their feet from the weight of the trading items and the wind. Cyrus while trying to escape the camel’s hooves fell, and was quickly covered in sand. A while later when he came to he was greeted with the sight of sand. He started panicking but forced himself to stop. He tried to understand his predicament and came up with the notion that he was buried in sand; his surroundings emphasized that, he thought as he looked around. He dug himself out inch by inch till finally, he …show more content…
Titus’s father woke up and grabbed the machete that always laid beside his bed, went down the hall in a flurry of movement and struck out at the soldiers. The soldiers looked up at him from their feast, with the madness in his eyes that came with the abundant taste of wine, and quickly killed him. Titus’s mother awakened by the sound of the racket down the hall, jumped up and raced down the hall, where she was met with the sight of drunkards raiding her kitchen. She picked up her iron skillet that rested beside the wall and laid waste to the bottoms and elbows of the men. Only after they had beaten her and tied her to a chair did she notice the body of her dead husband, and cried out in lamentation. She kicked and struggled to no avail in the end the soldier with a grisly beard silenced her permanently with a swift slice of her neck with her own kitchen knife. Titus woke in the morning to the sight of the torn up house and bodies of his father and mother splayed on the kitchen