Similarities Between Genesis And The Odyssey

In the sacred text “In The Beginning: Genesis” Moses writes about Adam, Eve, God, and the serpent. The serpent tempts Adam and Eve to eat the fruit from the forbidden tree of knowledge that God told them not to eat from. In the epic poem “The Odyssey” Homer writes about Odysseus going to fight in the Trojan War and his twenty year journey to make it back home.When the characters got tempted, what they wanted looked good at the time, but when they pursued it, they turned out to have consequences.
Both of the stories had something that was taken away from the characters. Adam and Eve both got immortality taken away from them after they ate from the forbidden tree of knowledge that they were told not to eat from (Beers). Odysseus’s men got life