King Priam wanted to defeat the enemy at the shores where they would land. ... Instead of reaching Troy the Greeks land at Mysia and after a battle received directions to Troy from the king. This could be more or less true but according to Strauss it shows how bad the navigation system was in the old days. ... Where the Greeks land exactly is not made clear by Homer but according to Strauss some places might have been the west side of Bronze Age bay, the harbor at Besik bay, the Trojan Harbor (Strauss, 58). ... Strauss also analyzes the different class structures in the Bronze Age, like who ha...

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I come from the rough land of Ithaca. ... We then left and came to the land of the Cyclopes, fierce, lawless people who have no assemblies or legal codes. ... We all knew something bad was going to happen so we warned and advised him not to go there. ... I was very scared and I told my captain that we had to leave that place because I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen. ...

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Odysseus was aware that both men and gods would help him and he said "Oh hear me now, although before though didst not hear me, when I was wrecked, what time the great Land-shaker wrecked me. ... He knew that when he reached the land of the Phaecians that they would feel sorry for him and would try to help him. ... While Odysseus was in the underworld, he became acquainted with Tiresias who told him not to kill the Sun's kine because it would bring him and his crew bad luck. ... As when the welcome land appears to swimmers, whose sturdy ship Poseidon wrecked at sea, confounded by the wind...

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He gave Odysseus a bag full of the bad winds that would keep them from their home of Ithaca. ... When they landed on the island of Hyperion, bad winds prevented them from leaving. ... Did he not offer you generous sacrifices in the land of the horse-taming Trojans?" ...

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However because respect is not present for Achilles, Agamemnon does not care about the humiliation that he receives in front of friends and countrymen, he merely verbalizes that Achilles is known just for his bad temper and physical strength. ... This is not self sacrifice or compassion for his land, it is more for remembrance for a friend and to let Hector and the Trojans know that they would not be able to get away with the killing of his best friend. ...

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