... Odysseus and Gilgamesh have been, that they both serve as interfaces between the Gods and the mortals. Odysseus summoned the fierceness of the Gods for battling at Troy notwithstanding leading his men on a voyage that Poseidon had brought upon them in light of the slaughtering of the Cyclops, his child. Regardless of what the particular situation, Odysseus' and Gilgamesh's epic statuses make them basic singularities, illustrative of the Gods to the general population, and illustrative of people to the Gods. Odysseus ... ' murdering of the Cyclops, for instance, had the capacity make a di...

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... ] a marvelous splendor making him taller, more massive to all eyes, so Phaeacians might regard the man with kindness" (8:21-23). The goddess' act of tricking the Phaecians into seeing an altered, larger-than life version of Odysseus to sway their sympathies serves to illustrate another calculating maneuver. Making them think about Odysseus a certain way, Athena uses her wits to manipulate them into giving her what she ... serves to warn against straying towards the more uninhibited and reckless parts of our personalities that would be branded as Poseidon-like. The Odyssey tells the story...

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... Odysseus of course already has studied the patterns of the Cyclops and predicted he would do so. The cave is opened and Odysseus and his crew escape under the bellies of the sheep, another crafty plan from Odysseys, the Cyclops is utterly clueless to the fact that his prisoners are escaping, until they are already gone. It is unlikely that any of Odysseys crew would have survived if it weren't for the pure craftiness of Odysseus. Odysseus ... who is faced with many dangers commonly uses his craftiness to successfully escape from the grip of hazard. Later on in the book after Odysseus has...

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