1) It took Odysseus ten years to get home.
2) Google maps said it should've taken around two weeks to get home.
3) The Trojan war took place around the 12th Century BCE.
4) Homer composed it around the 8th Century BCE.
5) An epic poem is, a long narrative poem; on a serious subject; written in a grand elevated style; centered on a larger than life hero.
6) His wife's name was Penelope.
7) His son's name was Telemachus.
8) In the cave, they ate all of the Cyclops' cheese which made him very angry. He then started eating all of Oddyseus' men. Odysseus decided to get the Cyclops drunk. While he was drunk, Odysseus put a flaming spear through his one eye which left him blind.
9) Odysseus is a hero, because of his extraordinary attributes and abilities. He was also Athena's favorite.
10) The most beautiful line is "... and she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms around him, pressed as though forever".
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