... the true companion he has sought." (Lawall, "Gilgamesh," 11) The world gives us countless unfair, tragic, and criminal events, of which many are unavoidable. In "The Odyssey," the young son Telemakhos " [when he heard] these things said, [his] heart rose in a long pang for his father, and he wept . . ." (Homer 261) In those times, we wish we could be the hero ... ...

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... much pain. "Odysseus pretends to be insane because he does not want to go to the war. But they find him out; on advice of Palamedes, they kidnap his son Telemakhos as a threat, thus forcing him to go." (30-33 Proclus" Summary of the Cypria). While these are valued standpoints, I contend Homer is rather trying to allow us, the audience, to ... ...

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