... could overcome the challenges of these gods, bringing the gods down to a plane the common man could relate to. There are three main themes in The Odyssey. The first of them is the "Wandering of Odysseus," which has the most emphasis placed upon it and the largest volume of literature. Odysseus encounters many hardships and difficulties during his journey, including loosing part of his crew in both the land of the Lotus-eaters and even more men in the land of the Cyclops. In his wandering ... as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Yet the people of Greece had already shown their insightful a...

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Odysseus's adventure in Homer's epic, "The Odyssey," follows him on a journey where he meets an array of new people while traveling to new land. As he meets these new characters, he experiences the different forms of lack of hospitality. Homer uses Xenia, the Greek practice of hospitality to strangers, to characterize mortals, gods, and ... of the men, disobeying the third step of Xenia. The Cyclops did not give a warm reception to the passing men, therefore his cruelty would characterize him as a monster. The theme of the voyager traveling in far-off land was very common in Greek mythology. ...

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