Odysseus: Hero or Murderer?
Odysseus is clearly a hero when it comes to the
odyssey story.
Those of you that think that he is a murderer
ponder this for a moment.
Would you do anything to get back to
your own family? What would you do if your husband or...
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Odysseus: Hero or Murderer?
Odysseus is clearly a hero when it comes to the
odyssey story.
Those of you that think that he is a murderer
ponder this for a moment.
Would you do anything to get back to
your own family? What would you do if your husband or wife was
being swarmed by other men or women because all that they wanted
was your money? When it came to this, Odysseus did what he had
to do.
As Ecclesiastes once said, "For in much wisdom is much
grief, and increase in knowledge is increase of sorrow.
"
Believing that Odysseus lived by this, the more knowledge he
gained about his wife that there were so many people there to
"comfort" her the more pain it caused him.
Therefore, explaining
the actions that Odysseus took when he had actually reached his
home.
He was only simply trying to protect his own family.
In Odysseus s first stop, he and his men met the lotus
eaters.
Odysseus immediately grabbed up his men and saved them
from further taking the drugs that the lotus eaters h
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