Homer tells the story of The Odyssey through a narrator that is hearing the story from a muse. In the first book, Homer uses pronouns and refers to himself telling the story, but he isn’t a character, rather a third person that focused on Odysseus and Telemachus. In book four, Odysseus becomes the narrator. Doing this gives a different way to tell the story, through his own experiences, which gives the reader a different way to understand the epic poem. It’s also the first example of an extended first-person narrative in Western literature. However, different from Dictator, Homer doesn’t use Latin. He uses a dialect that is straightforward and telling of the scene. For example, “Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys,