Eaters In The Odyssey

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Author blind poet Homer an epic is a novel about a journey and actions of a protagonist who most often has a goal and from the story lessons are learned
Odysseus went off to the Trojan War (in Troy), reason: Helen was stolen away from Melenaus (Greek king) by Paris (Trojan prince)
Trojan War lasted 10 years; Trojans vs. Greeks
Achilles’ heel is weakness, or can be considered as a “fatal flaw,” and Odysseus found it in the Trojans; used wooden horse to take advantage of it after fight try to return to wife Penelope & to rule his home however, had to go to defeat and survive many obstacles (can’t control how fate works)
Lotus eaters offer a fruit, muddles the minds of the sailors (all they do is sit there, eating like cows in a way) if Odysseus didn’t fight against the Cyclops (Polyphemus) then he would have died (hence the fact that one of his men was killed by it) …show more content…
neighbor come but leave since says Nobody is killing him had to cling to underside of goats (... sheep) so that when Cyclops counting & feeling the backs of sheep he wouldn’t be able to detect them (since is blind can only use sense of touch) after go to the island of Aiaia, encounter goddess/sorceress of magic (seductress, but deceptive)
Odysseus becomes Circe’s lover and stays with her for about a

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