Leadership In The Odyssey

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In the Odessey, Odyssues is shown and proven to have the proper traits for a good leader. Homer in a way tried his best to capture the fact that Odysseus knew his place when it came to being a leader, and knew what he had to do to keep everyone safe. He had to show his respect to the gods and kept his promise all throughout the story.A leader should be able to communicate effectively to their followers, lead everyone to safety, treat everyone equally, and know the difference between good and bad. Odysseus knew that in order to respect the gods he couldn’t eat the cattle. Knowing something bad would happen if the men did, he warned everyone. He was committed and didn’t eat for days. Although we all know and expect certain actions and responsibilities …show more content…

Leaders like Odysseus know what their responsibilities are and know there places. The author of the Odyssey gives us a leader who knows how to lead everyone. The only problem is the crew didn’t listen to him. “Eurylochus had been giving evil counsel to the men. ‘Listen to me’ said he, ‘my poor comrades. All deaths are bad enough but there is none so bad as famine.” The crew wanted to listen to Odyssues, but famine was too strong and easy to give up by eating the cattle. (Second paragraph in “The Odyssey, book XII”)After Odysseus found out about the betrayal they brought upon themselves and the gods, days pass and the men continued to feast on the cattle. Odysseus couldn’t do anything about it, however, he didn’t bother to eat. “For six days my men kept driving in the best cows and feasting upon them” This continued until they were tricked to put out to sea, where all the men except odyssues were killed. (Ninth paragraph in “The Odyssey, book …show more content…

In this case the king had control over all civilians and people he loved. The author explained that the king was semi-barbaric and had large, “florid, and untrammeled” ideas. Although he knew the responsibilities he had to overtake, he believes that they should all choose their future. (First paragraph, “The Lady and the Tiger”)With the semi barbaric ways he would express the anger of fate. Fate lead the person convicted of a crime to their future. It’s between death and a hilarious wedding. However, his power was the control of love and hate. The control blinded him which lead to him expressing the outcomes of using power to the wrong of his

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