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Curiosity In Homer's The Odyssey

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The epic poem The Odyssey was written by Homer and taken to translate by Robert Fitzgerald. What makes Odysseus’ stories relevant to today is that he avoids temptations/giving into temptation, hospitality, brains over brawn/mental strength over physical strength. Odysseus gave in to his curiosity because his men, and he landed on an island to see the natives that live on the island to find a cave. “‘Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had the offer no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends’” (Homer 9.130-131). People always have curiosity, but that is what sometimes means that something good comes out of be curious. Curiosity is what brought us to today. Thomas Edison was curious and created the light bulb. Odysseus

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