"Both a Teacher and Entertainer" One of the most difficult tasks as a parent is to teach your child lifes lessons. Many have tried, and many have failed. But over the ages most successful ideas have come in a form of story or tale. Aesops Fables, nursery rhymes, and other tales of caution are used even today to teach this common knowledge one must have. In the Greek civilization, thousands of years ago, many children …showed first 75 words of 1238 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1238 total…part of the entire epic. The characterization was vital, for without it much of Odysseus personality would have been lost. And last Homer told of a very important life lesson. Which was ( at the time) the sole purpose of the epic. Overall The Odyssey met up to, and exceeded, its role as a instrument to teach. It went beyond, and became a classic tale, in which the new purpose for reading it was to enjoy.