In the textbook version of The Odyssey, Odysseus boasts about how he has defeated the Cyclops. ... His conversation with the Cyclops is very short and not as detailed as the book versions. ... He talks to the Cyclops sacrificing himself for his friends, sacrificing for others does not necessarily mean that you need to die for them. It just means that you put their lives and their needs before your own. ... As a reader, I do not dislike him nor do I think he is amazing, but I think that these genres create lessons for the hero, making the reader also learn the lessons that the hero is also lear...

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• Grade Level: High School

When she complains to Zeus about his decision to aid the Trojans against the Greeks, she is told to mind her own business. ... Book 18 In the first section of Book XVIII, Homer describes how Achilles is affected by the death of Patroclos. ... The hero has overcome his weakness by facing the truth about himself. ... He knows that if he allows Achilles to rampage unchecked, many Trojans will meet their doom before Destiny decrees it. ... Book 24 Book XXIV begins on the divine level and ends on the mortal. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the Homer's Iliad and the Biblical book of Genesis, esoteric knowledge, or rather the struggle to gain it, leads to the testing and defining of a character's identity. ... In the Biblical book of Genesis, hidden knowledge plays a significant role in defining the characters through struggle and hardship, just as in The Iliad. ... When God first informs Adam and Eve about the middle tree, he only instructs them not to eat of it because they would die, but the serpent reveals the information about the tree to Eve in order to tempt her to go against God. ... Furthermore, when he r...

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