Odysseus Lessons In The Odyssey

In the Greek story, The Odyssey by Homer, there are many adventures of Odysseus’ and in these adventures you can learn lessons to use in real life situations. In the adventure that Odysseus had to the cyclops he wasn’t prepared for what could come from his actions. When Odysseus had to face the Sirens that could have ended badly, so why would he do it? Odysseus then had to face either Scylla and Chorybdis, he chooses the obstacle that he thought was the lesser of the two. Throughout all these adventures that he is telling, you can take a lesson from most of them. In the adventure that Odysseus takes to the cyclops, Odysseus finds a cave of one of the cyclops and steals cheese and some goats (Homer 867). Then the cyclops comes back and finds all these men in his cave and isn’t happy. Now, Odysseus didn’t think he was going to get caught and trapped in this cyclops’ cave (Homer 868). He is deeper in this situation than he thought. The lesson that can be learned

Odysseus was told to have his men tie him up and for him to listen to the Sirens (Homer 882). The Sirens are very dangerous because it is under water singing that lures you to the beautiful sounds. The sounds are irresistible and once you start heading towards the sound you cannot stop and go back to your ship. You eventually drown because you never go back up for air and the Sirens never quit singing. So, as we can see this is not very smart of Odysseus to listen to the Sirens, and he knows that if he goes down to the Sirens he will die. Luckily, Odysseus does not break through the rope that is holding him back. The lesson that I learned from this scene in the Odyssey is that never fall for temptation. This applies to real life because you have a choice and you should never fall to do drugs. People might say it is okay, but you should know that in the end you could get addicted and die from drug