Odysseus

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Adventure From The Odyssey Analysis

If one looks at much of the Ancient literature, there are many epics that are based on the Trojan War. It has special place in the echelons of the Greek literature and the key thing that must be seen in the work is that how Homer is selective in terms of the way selection of the choice material was being carried out. The focus of Ilad was just few weeks of the action that stayed. The other important thing during the material is the action in terms of the way all these things are supposed to work out. The key element in the story is the presence of the Odysseus who comes across as one of the most intriguing protagonist in the contemporary literature of that era. During the course of this paper, it is going to be seen that how the adventure of the Odysseus panned out, what were the situations and the important relevance of Odysseus in the modern literature of his era. The rest of the battle panned out in the manner that the Greek army boarded their shops and sailed for the short distance first time around. Later on, they rejoiced the fact that how the conflict has ended and eventually they brought the horse inside the city. During the night, hosts of Greek warriors emerged from the horse and opened the gates of the city. For the obvious reasons, the people in the city were not an attack of such a magnitude and thus they succumbed to the attack and there was no fighting back.

Cunning and War Mastery of Odysseus

There were many instances during the course of the story where it can be seen that how Odysseus has emerged as a masterful planner. It is not the act of sheer luck that he was able to get the better of the battle and one of the reasons that he was able to come up with something that is so out of the box is due to the fact that he has the wits about him when it comes to managing things in the heat of the battle. There are many people who have pointed out the argument that how he used the loyalty and the honor of the enemy to his advantage and how sneaking behind attacking is not somewhat a good strategy. But the key thing in this regard is that how audacious the approach was at the end of his adventure and how he used to go to every end to achieve his goal.

His masterplan to enter the city was about making sure that he avoids the direct conflict where loss of lives was imminent and infiltration of the city. Thus, effort was being made on his part to make sure that some sort of gorilla battle tactic has to be used to make sure that the upper hand must be gained on the enemy. At that point of time, such a tactic was not heard of and it showed that how important at times it is to make sure that have a cunning mind and shrewd understanding goes a long way towards winning any battle. The important thing that must be noted here is that the understanding of the war tactics and the glorification of the battle are some of the thing that are likely to damage the prospect of the army during the course of the battle and this is the case that can be seen here. Extra glorification of the warfare was something that is a folly and considering the battle has won when there are still forces near you is something that is quite erroneous as a war strategy specially when facing people who are experienced in battle.

Summary of the Journey

There was a prophecy that stated that how the Odysseus is going to stay away from home for a very long period as he intends to join the Greek army and then how he would be attacking Troy. Odysseus loved his wife to the core and had great affection for this newborn son. It is stated that he really did not wanted to leave, so there was an effort on his part to appear crazy and lunatic in front of the others when the Greek army were coming to call. He yoked the donkey as well as on and started his journey towards the seashore. His antics though were exposed later, and he was not able to conceal himself for a very long period of time and thus had to feign illness. Lack of poor planning on the part of the Greeks played its part in the fulfillment of the adventure.

Role of God in the Adventure

Now, the emergence of the storm and how the opposing army invited the wrath of God is something that has clearly gave him the huge advantage, but the fact remains that even if Odysseus had not received any help from the Gods, he has played a masterstroke. The battlefield would have been even if there was a case when where Gods would have intervened after the plan was made on his part to create a major obstacle and attack the city from inside. That does not do anything to tone down his motivations or bringing down one of the major accomplishments that are being carried out on this part. In the hindsight, it shows the acumen of Odysseus and how he used to manage things.

Works Cited

:http://www.boyle.kyschools.us/UserFiles/88/The%20Odyssey.pdf