1. It took Odysseus more than ten years to return home from the Trojan War.
2. According to Google Maps, the trip would have taken two weeks
3. The Trojan war occurred around the twelfth century BCE.
4. Homer composed the Odyssey in the eighth century BCE.
5. An epic poem is a long narrative poem
6. His wife is Penelope.
7. His son is Telemachus.
8. Odysseus is imprisoned by the nymph because she loves him and does not want to let him go, until the gods intervene and after a series of events is able to return home.
9. Yes, because the Greek's definition of being a hero did not mean you had to be perfect, but it just meant that you had an extraordinary attribute or ability and Odysseus did.
10. One of the most beautiful lines of Homer is " And so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever."
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