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Next, Odysseus learned that greed would never result in any good. After they visit Aiolia, Odysseus received a bag of wind of wind from Aiolos. His crew got jealous because they did not get anything, "How about ourselves - his shipmates all the way? Nigh home we are with empty hands. And who has gifts from Aiolos? He has. I saw we ought to crack that bag, there's gold and silver plenty in that bag!" (X. 46-50). When they opened it up, the wind got loose and propelled them back to where they started, "Then every wind roared into hurricane; the ships went pitching west with many cries; our land was lost" (X. 53-55). The lesson that they learned was that greed sends them back, not forward, literally and figuratively. .
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The next thing Odysseus learned was humility. Odysseus was very conceited after he escaped the Kyklops, "I would not heed then in my glorying spirit, but let my anger flare and yelled : `Kyklops, if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laërtes son, whose home's on Ithaka!'" (IX. 546-552). With these word, the Kyklops grew angry and almost hit their ship with a great boulder, "Now he laid hands upon a bigger stone and wheeled around, titanic for the cast, to let if fly in the black-prowed vessel's track" (IX. 587-589). Odysseus was almost killed because he was supercilious. .
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The next lesson he learned was if he acted like a pig, he became one. His men took advantage of Kirke and her food, "On thrones she seated them, and lounging chairs, while she prepared a meal of cheese and barley and amber honey mixed with Pramnian wine." (257-259). As a result they turned into actual pigs, "Scarce had they drunk when she flew after then with her long stick and shut them in a pigsty - bodies, voices, heads, and bristles, all swinish now." (X. 262-265). Odysseus learned not to act like a swine because that is what he would become, at least metaphorically.
