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Lessons Learned From Odysseus

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In the Odyssey, Odysseus's goal was to reach home. Even though he wanted to get back to his home and family, he learned many lessons along the way. Odysseus gained most knowledge from his journey, not his goal to get home. Odysseus learned a lot on his journey and his journey made him become a better person. Odysseus learned on his journey to resist the temptations of evil, he learned that being greedy would just set them back, and respect for the gods.

Odysseus learned to resist temptation. The first temptation Odysseus was tempted with was the lotus plant, from the lotus eaters. Eating the plant would not have harmed them in anyway, it would have just made them want to stay there, but him and his crew made the decision to resist eating it. If they had eaten the plant, they would have never gotten home. Another temptation they had to encounter was the Sirens. The Sirens would tempt them with their music. The Sirens were half bird half humans and they were very dangerous. The biggest temptation that Odysseus had to deal with was Calypso. She was a goddess that was madly in love with Odysseus. She wanted to have Odysseus as her husband, but Odysseus just wanted to get back home to his family. If he had not resisted temptation, he would have been on the island of the Lotus Eaters, dead, or without his true wife. …show more content…

After they visited Aeolus he received a bag of wind from the king of the winds. His crew thought Aeolus gave Odysseus gold so they became very jealous because they did not get anything and they thought Odysseus was being greedy and trying to have it al to himself. They snuck into Odysseus' room when he was sleeping and opened the bag. When they opened it, the wind came out and blew them back to Aeolus' island. Odysseus and his crew learned that being greedy would not help them through this journey at

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