With the Odyssey, Odysseus learned a big lesson in humility. The greatest example of this is in the last five books or so within the story. He has to dress, act, and live like a beggar in order to regain everything he had lost. While he was a beggar, the suitors treated him horribly. Antinous, leader of the suitors, was the worst of them all. He was the first to mistreat Odysseus and planned to kill Telemachus. He was also the one that would abuse him physically and verbally for some time to come. Also, if that weren't enough, he planned a boxing match for Odysseus to be in to watch him get beat up. All this was happening and the other suitors were most likely following their leader in whatever he was doing. Odysseus had to control himself the whole time this was happening. If he had lost his temper, the suitors would have killed him, his son, and most likely taken over the kingdom. That didn't happen though. Odysseus learned self-control and humility. He may not be perfect at it, but going

While down in Hades, he met many other people. Agamemnon happened to be one of them. He had basically told Odysseus never to trust women. Odysseus had to make a choice on whether or not to trust Agamemnon at all. Could he trust what he was saying? Another person he met in Hades was his mother. She had died pretty much of a broken heart. She had waited and waited for her son to come and died waiting. Now if that doesn't hit home I don't know what will. He knew that he really messed up when he tried to embrace his mother and went right through her. If he were more responsible and just went home after the war, he would have been able to hug his mother again. He also ran into one of his crew members that had died from being to drunk and falling off the roof on Circe's Island. He told Odysseus that he had just left him there and that he wanted a proper funeral. Finally he got to talk to Teiresias, the blind man who was said to have been blessed by the gods with foresight because of his lack of sight. Teiresias had told him of what was to come in order to get back to Ithika. Odysseus would have to take the responsibility of the rest of the journey ahead of him in order to get his kingdom back. The main thing that he learned from being in Hades was how irresponsible he was. Every time he landed somewhere new, he lost men. Six being the lowest number and a couple hundred being the most. He was now alone and again in need of assistance. Now he had learned what it had taken him so long to see. Now he was willing to accept the fact and do what was needed and stop being so irresponsible. At the end of the book, he clears everything up with those in his family. That is out of respect, which he had none of. He also made a shrine to Poseid

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