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Cultural Influences On Homer's Odyssey

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Homer’s Odyssey was a continued journey of the hero Odysseus after he left Troy. So, naturally, I shall be comparing and contrasting Homer’s Iliad with the epic I took part in. The two biggest aspects of the stories were the cultural influences of the text and the hero Odysseus’s role. For the Iliad he was a side character, with a few important contributors; however, the Odyssey, he was the main character and was at the center of the conflict. The second aspect, the cultural influences, is a bit more lengthy in its analysis. The Iliad’s characters are more like demigods or at least have more divine influence/intervention than Odysseus experienced. This is not the only contracting difference either, the story of the Odyssey follows a normal
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