Loyalty And Intelligence

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Loyalty and Intelligence Summary: Loyalty and intelligence are major themes throughout "The Odyessy" by Homer [pic] Throughout Homer's book "The Odyssey" the ideas of loyalty and intelligence keep coming up again and again. They both show up because it takes both to get anywhere in life and especially like a journey that Odysseus went on. Without loyalty or intelligence Odysseus would have not completed his trip alive. He kept himself safe and his crew until the crew was eaten by Charybdis. Both were necessary and both were used and shown. Loyalty was shown by Odysseus in that he was very loyal to his crew. He help them and they helped him. An example of this is when Odysseus see Elpinor at Hades and goes back to the island to burry him. He also is loyal when he goes and rescues them from Circe. He could have not buried Elpinor and he did not have to rescue his crew from Circe. Another person that show loyalty is Penelope. She could have just picked one of the suitors but she believed Odysseus was alive and she was going to wait for him. The sad part about this is that Odysseus was not loyal to Penelope. Either way she was very loyal and it all worked out in the end. Intelligence was also used in Odysseus trip to get home. Odysseus used his wits or intelligence to make a plan to get the Cyclopes to role the stone away and for them to be able to escape. Odysseus did this by poking the Cyclopes in the eye and blinding him. This plan took a great deal of intelligence. Also along his trip Odysseus had to choose weather to go past Scylla and Charybdis or take another route. He chose Scylla and Charybdis and only lost six men per boat until he got to Charybdis. But if Odysseus chose the other way it would have been certain death for all the men including him. Another way intelligence was used by Odysseus was the plan to kill the suitors. Odysseus could
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