Strong Minded Leaders In The Odyssey

The Odyssey, a Greek epic involves the story of Odysseus's daring adventures during his return to Ithaca. He fell into numerous difficulties and has to keep himself alive. In the Odyssey Homer changes the Crew in order to reveal his message that strong minded leaders can help the weak minded to his ancient Greek audience and the reader. Strong minded leader help the weak minded develops from when they got tied up by Odysseus, to when the Cyclops ate one of their men in the Cyclops then to where Helios made them sacrificed one of their cattle for him, even though the crew does get distracted sometimes during the journey.

In the Lotus Eaters, the strong minded leaders can help the weak minded crew when they got sick when they eat the

So they had to think of a plan quick when the Cyclops “Swung the high overhead a slab of rock to close the cave”(229). Although the Cyclops trapped the crew inside the cave they would have tried to get out of his grasps. The quote explains the change in the idea of the crew because they changed their way of thinking of an escape out of the cave of the Cyclops. When Odysseus and his crew had gotten out of the grasps of the Cyclops and “we rounded up his fat stiff-legged sheep to take abroad… to where the good ship lay”(463- 465). Because of the crew agreeing with Odysseus they got out of the cave, since they did this this show the crews keenness of the situation. And if they didn't go with Odysseus they would have been killed or eaten by the Cyclops. Now that they were off the island they were rowing back they “…put their backs into a racing stroke— row, row or perish”(488). Where as if they didn't they would have been caught by the Cyclops. Although the Cyclops threw part of the hilltop and almost killed Odysseus and the crew. I think that they would have all been killed if they hadn't made it off the

In the Odyssey Homer changes the Crew in order to reveal his message that strong minded leaders can help the weak minded to his ancient Greek audience and the reader. The Crew helped Odysseus in his journey and also hurt him in his journey by making mistakes.The theme strong minded leader help the weak minded develops from The Lotus Eaters, to The Cyclops and finally to The Cattle of the Sun God, even though the crew screwed up sometimes during their