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Discussing The Theme Of Loyalty In Homer's The Odyssey

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All threw The Odyssey Odysseus, our hero, who shows many heroic trades, but I think the most important one is loyalty.
In the first episode, he showed loyalty is with cyclopes, Polyphemus. In this episode, he shows loyalty in many way, one way is he talks to Polyphemus to get him drunk. Once he is drunk Odysseus takes another act of loyalty by taking some of his men and driving a steak in the cyclops eye. After that he took the hardest sheep to escape, by not only taking the leader sheep, but he also hangs there all night instead of laying on the ground, because his men had to stay under the sheep.
The second act in witch Odysseus shows loyalty is the episode is when they go to the Lotus Eaters. Three of his men get addicted to the flower,
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