1) It took Odysseus 10 years to return home from the Trojan War when it should’ve taken him 2 weeks.
2) It should’ve taken him 2 weeks to return home from the Trojan War
3) The Trojan War occurred around the twelfth century BCE.
4) Homer composed The Odyssey in the eighth century BCE.
5) An epic poem is a long narrative poem; on a serious subject; written in a grand of elevated style; centered on a larger-than-life hero.
6) Odysseus wife is Penelope.
7) Odysseus son is Telemachus.
8) Cyclops begins to eat the soldiers but in response Odysseus gets him drunk and blinds him with a flaming spear.
9) Odysseus is indeed a hero, to Greek’s heroism didn’t mean perfection but it meant you had to have an extraordinary attribute or ability and Odysseus definitely does.
10) One of the most powerful lines of homer is “And she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband her white arms around him pressed as though forever”.
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