How Did Homer's Odyssey Have On Ancient Greek Society

In an epic as powerful as Homer’s Odyssey, it is often times challenging for people to understand the true impact it has had on readers still to this day. Not only do readers, critics, historians, etc, forget about this impact, they forget about the significance and impact it had on ancient Greek society as a whole. Homer’s Odyssey was created during a time where the Greek people were proud of the array of achievements they had to hold and could only boast to the rest of the world the pride they took in their history. This epic is so much more than “man vs. nature”. This epic and everything about it provides a deeper look and allows an a better understanding of ancient Greek society as a whole. When questioning Homer’s Odyssey, people as …show more content…
Homer’s Odyssey provides the epic to the subject matter in almost a short handed version. Thus allowing the muse to decided where she would like to pick up or drop off the pieces of the Epic. Throughout the entirety of Homer’s Odyssey there is a constant back and forth between settings, people, etc. With all the back and forth and an epic that starts in the middle of a confusing narrative, the reader can only ask one thing. Why the hell did Homer create this? Homer’s overall purpose in creating The Odyssey was to teach the ancient greek lessons. Not just one lesson should be taken away from Homer’s Odyssey, but many. This is what motivated Homer in creating The Odyssey. Homer wanted the ancient Greek people to take away something so much more than one man's journey against nature and everything that happens in between. Homer wanted to educate the ancient Greeks on the lessons of a story of mankind's strengths and failures along his treturous, journey, courage, the God’s, and piety. This is everything and more that both motivated Homer in writing The Odyssey and what he wanted people to learn from