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The Destructiveness Of Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey

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Both Odysseus and I have both shown level headedness. In The Odyssey, Odysseus is trapped in a cave with the gigantic man eating cyclops. The cyclops left them trapped in the cave for a day while he tended to his sheep giving him time to think. Odysseus finally comes up with an ingenious plan to put the cyclops into a deep sleep, but it would require him to stay level headed in one of the most dangerous things he ever had to do. Odysseus went up to the cyclops and offered him some extremely potent wine to put him into an very deep slumber so they could stab him in the eye. If Odysseus had freaked out while offering the wine he would have for sure been eaten and the plan would have fallen apart, and everyone would have died in the cave. Odysseus
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