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Godlike Odysseus
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Odysseus, son of Laertes, was godlike in many ways, but he also showed some human or mortal characteristics. In The Odyssey by Homer, he shows this in a few ways while on his way home to Ithica from the land of the Lotus-eaters, and also when he is home. Either something upsets him like a human w ....
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....aracteristics of a human, was in "Penelope Tests Odysseus." It came about when she tests him to see if the man there really is her husband (Odysseus), by ordering Eurycleia to move his bed outside his room: " 'Now, Eurycleia, and make ready/ His firm-built bed. Make it outside/ The room he built himself. Aye, move/ His firm-built bedstead forth and strew/ Upon it bedding-fleeces, covers,/ And bright-hued rugs.' " Then, Odysseus shows more mortal characteristics: "All this she said/ To try he.... |
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