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Theme Of Sacrifice In The Odyssey

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The theme of The Odyssey is that sometimes sacrifices must be made to accomplish what you must. First of all, in the epic, Odysseus makes a sacrifice in order to accomplish his goal of reaching home. When he passes Scylla’s cave, he loses six men to her. However, he passes the cave alive. This shows that he needed to make a sacrifice, but it pays off and he accomplishes getting out out alive and getting closer to home. Second, in the epic, Odysseus makes a sacrifice when he gives up his wine in order to be able to escape Polyphemus’ cave. He sacrifices his gifted wine to the cyclops, but is able to blind him and escape his cave as a result of it. The cyclops drank the wine, fell asleep and Odysseus stabbed him in the eye. In addition, Odysseus
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