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Obstacles Of Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey
Odysseus is the lord of Ethica, his wife Penelope gave him a son and he named it Telemachus. Odysseus needs to leave Ethica, his mother, his wife and his newborn son, to fight in Trojan War in Troy. Odysseus and his men built a Trojan horse to enter the kingdom Troy, and when they already entered the battle begin and they defeated the Troy kingdom. Odysseus declared that he defeated Troy himself without the help of other Gods, so that Poseidon got angry and punished him. Poseidon didn’t let Odysseus to reach Ethica, he gives Odysseus many obstacles, but Odysseus never stop to find way to get back to Ethica, he never surrender on whatever the obstacles is, even in sacrificing herself just to see again Penelope and his son and to get back to

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