... were later used in many Greek epic poems and some of them were portrayed as the mortal hero's adversaries and sought to destroy him. This is most evident in Homer's The Odyssey. In Homer's The Odyssey, the protagonist of the story, Odysseus, was a valiant warrior, who along with his men fought in the famed Trojan War and came out as the victors. Now, Odysseus ... decided to teach the mortal hero a hard learned lesson. To do this, he intends to steer Odysseus from returning back to his family by turning the ocean's tides against him and his men. In book five of The Odyssey, Homer percept...

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