Question

How does Odysseus escape the Cyclops's cave?

How does Odysseus subdue Circe?

How does Penelope test Odysseus?

What are Odysseus's strengths? His weaknesses?

Why do all of the suitors have to die?

What is the code of Greek hospitality?

What is the importance of the Trojan War to Greek culture?

What is Penelope like?

Where does Odysseus travel from the time The Odyssey begins to where it ends?

What are we told from stories in the poem?

What is the basic story of the Trojan War and who are the main characters?

Who is Homer?

Answer 1

homer was a Greek poet

Answer 2

The Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaean (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably through Homer's Iliad. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy; its sequel, the Odyssey describes Odysseus's journey home. Other parts of the war are described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid.

Answer 3

Another answer to one of your question is that Penelope tests Odysseus to see if he is really her husband by using her knowledge that literally no one can move their wedding bed. She tells him she is going to have someone move the bed. He gets upset and tells her the bed cannot be moved without damaging it because he built the bed using the live olive tree he had planted. The bed is part of the live tree. He tells her the house is also built around that same tree.