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This is a 3 page paper on qualities of Greek civilization which are revealed in Homer’s “The Odyssey”. Homer’s “The Odyssey” was written around the year 750 B.C. and in addition to providing a great tale about the adventures of the king Odysseus, it also reveals aspects and qualities of the ancient civilization in Greece at that time. While Greece was recovering from the Trojan War, the journeys of Odysseus reveal to the readers that the ancients Gods and myths played a major role in everyday life and recollection of events in addition to the admiration of the qualities of hospitality, honor, athletic ability, story telling, organization and song within the everyday lives of the Greeks while qualities such as pride and arrogance were abhorred. While most of the events centered on the people from the higher classes, the lives of the slaves and common men are also included which gives the reader an added dimension to the complex societal structure which also existed.
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king Odysseus, it also reveals aspects and qualities of the ancient civilization in Greece at that time. While Greece was recovering from the Trojan War, the journeys of Odysseus reveal
to the readers that the ancients Gods and myths played a major role in everyday life and recollection of events in addition to the admiration of the qualities of hospitality,
honor, athletic ability, story telling, organization and song within the everyday lives of the Greeks while qualities such as pride and arrogance were abhorred. While most of the events centered
on the people from the higher classes, the lives of the slaves and common men are also included which gives the reader an added dimension to the complex societal structure
which also existed. Homer wrote two great epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, sometime between the years 750 and 700 B.C. which
have since become some of the main reference sources for Greek civilization. Homer did not write about the events of his own time (the Archaic) but of the times which
preceded him in the Mycenaean world (Jackson). The Odyssey is a companion to The Iliad which was about the Trojan War. The Odyssey takes place in the decade which followed
the defeat of Troy and it is about the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and throughout his travels, the story "provides a picture of life in early ancient Greece,
a period of time before Greeks were called Greeks and long before Greece became a nation" (Krenicki). Within The Odyssey, readers soon discover elements of the everyday life, politic,
religion and social structures of ancient Greece as it is learned that every city has a king just as Odysseus is the king of Ithaca, Menelaus is the king of
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