Morals And Lessons In Homer's The Odyssey

In The Odyssey there are important morals and lessons to be learned, just like in Gilgamesh; but The Odyssey does it in a different way. In Gilgamesh it was based in present time as in the morals where explained as it happen to Gilgamesh; but in The Odyssey most of the morals were explained in little stories of Odysseus’s journey back home. Being that said you were able to see how those different stories of different lessons shape the poem itself. The moral of power of cunning over strength was shown in the story of when Odysseus and his men went to Cyclops Island. When Odysseus and his men got trapped Odysseus easily could have been irrationally and just started to attack Polyphemus, but he did not because he did not want to put his men in
This is shown in Book 9 lines 353 to 370. This teaches us that we do not always have to be strong physically but we have strength through being cunning and wise. Other way The Odyssey explains lessons will be with different examples. In The Odyssey there are different types of temptation that Odysseus and his men go through. The temptation of gloating after defeating was just too hard for Odysseus to give up and doing this resulted in Polyphemus calling on his father, Poseidon, which in revenge kills all of Odysseus men but the ones on his ship. “…should ask you who blinded you, shamed you so-say Odysseus…” (The Odyssey 227). The other temptation would be that of the Lotus Eaters. After getting blown off course from the bag of winds the landed on the island of Lotus Eaters, the people on the island did not want to kill them, but gave them lotuses. In this temptation The Odyssey describe the plant like a drug to where they ingested and forget all their main priorities. “Any crewmen who ate the lotus…lost all desire to send message back…their only wish to linger there with the lotus-eaters…” (The Odyssey