Examples Of Advice In The Odyssey

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Three occasions in the Odyssey where good advice is offered and not taken are when Odeyssuse tells the soldiers not to open the bag of west wind, when the soldiers are told not to such the cows, and when the soldiers are told not to eat the lotus flower. The overall lesson these examples present is that to be successful you can not be greedy, impatient, and selfish.One example of good advice given yet not followed in the Odyssey is when between heading back to Ethica the soldiers opened the bag of the west wind after being told not to reapditly. Still, the greedy, selfish, and impatient soldier thought it was a treasure open and delayed the voyage home by sending them back from where they came, making them restart their journey.A second example

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Blame The Gods In The Odyssey

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