Throughout Odysseus’ adventures he encounters many challenges, but with intellect and guile he manages to escape them all while teaching the reader a lesson. This epic is known as the Odyssey. The Odyssey was originally written by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald. This epic is based on a mortal known as Odysseus who has to overcome many complications in an effort to reach home. He had to face these problems due to his first adventure, the island of Cyclops where a cyclops prayed to Poseidon that Odysseus would not reach home. Which eventually lead to The Land of the Dead, Scylla and Charybdis, and The Cattle of Lord Helios. The challenges that Odysseus face present many lessons that he and his crew must learn from and continue on their
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Odysseus and his remaining men landed on the island inhabited by the cattle of Lord Helios and there he gave specific orders for his men not to kill the cattle. When a gale keeps Odysseus and his men on shore Eurylochus says “Comrades, you’ve gone through everything; listen to what I say. All deaths are hateful to us, mortal wretches, but famine is the most pitiful, the worst end that a man can come to” (pg 981). This quote from the Odyssey shows that if men want something enough they will get it no matter what the cost. Odysseus later states in his account of the Odyssey that He “had [not] yet seen the worst of it” (pg 985). The event that Odysseus spoke of in his quote was the complete wreckage of his ship, which happened when zeus threw a lightning bolt at it to punish his men for eating the cattle. This was Odysseus’ most sorrowful adventure because he lost all of his men, but a lesson can be learned from it, that lesson is that greed is never good it can overrun man’s soul and is given into very easily. This was Odysseus’ final adventure before he returned home where he would learn more lessons
Odysseus and his remaining men landed on the island inhabited by the cattle of Lord Helios and there he gave specific orders for his men not to kill the cattle. When a gale keeps Odysseus and his men on shore Eurylochus says “Comrades, you’ve gone through everything; listen to what I say. All deaths are hateful to us, mortal wretches, but famine is the most pitiful, the worst end that a man can come to” (pg 981). This quote from the Odyssey shows that if men want something enough they will get it no matter what the cost. Odysseus later states in his account of the Odyssey that He “had [not] yet seen the worst of it” (pg 985). The event that Odysseus spoke of in his quote was the complete wreckage of his ship, which happened when zeus threw a lightning bolt at it to punish his men for eating the cattle. This was Odysseus’ most sorrowful adventure because he lost all of his men, but a lesson can be learned from it, that lesson is that greed is never good it can overrun man’s soul and is given into very easily. This was Odysseus’ final adventure before he returned home where he would learn more lessons