1. The voyage took ten years.
2. According to Google Maps, the journey should have taken two weeks.
3. The Trojan wars were around the 12th century BC.
4. The Odyssey was composed by Homer during the 8th century BC.
5. An epic is a long narrative poem on a serious subject; written in a grand or elevated style; centered on a larger than life hero.
6. Odysseus' wife is named Penelope.
7. His son is named Telemachus
8. Odysseus tricks the cyclops into thinking his name is "no-man" causing the other cyclops to think nothing is going on.
9. Odysseus is considered a hero because in Greece a hero was determined by a trait that they use very well and is not very common.
10. "And she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever."
2. According to Google Maps, the journey should have taken two weeks.
3. The Trojan wars were around the 12th century BC.
4. The Odyssey was composed by Homer during the 8th century BC.
5. An epic is a long narrative poem on a serious subject; written in a grand or elevated style; centered on a larger than life hero.
6. Odysseus' wife is named Penelope.
7. His son is named Telemachus
8. Odysseus tricks the cyclops into thinking his name is "no-man" causing the other cyclops to think nothing is going on.
9. Odysseus is considered a hero because in Greece a hero was determined by a trait that they use very well and is not very common.
10. "And she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever."
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