The Odyssey The Odyssey, written by Homer, is a story about a man (Odysseus) and his twenty-year journey home from the wars of Troy. This book also contains another journey traveled by Odysseus’s son Telemachus. His journey is not about travel, but becoming a man. Throughout The Odyssey Telemachus reaches manhood, but never the level of greatness like his farther. Telemachus enters the story as a grown man in size, but acts immature. He is thought of as a nuisance by the suitors, who are destroying his home. He also does not possess the skills to drive them away. Homer states, “- if only he might drop....

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