TheOdyssey

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**Background** During the Trojan War, the Greeks fooled there enemys into bringing a big wooden horse into Troy. The Trojans had no idea that Greek soldiers were hiding in it, with Odysseus being the leader. Thae that night they opened the city gates to the Greek army, Troy was destroyed. Now they have to get home Cattle of the Sun God After seeing there firend being killed, the soliders decided to stop at an island to rest. Odysseus warned his men that whatever happened they were not to touch any animals here. He guessed that there was going to be trouble. The sailors rested but awoke in the night in a terifing storm. They pulled their boat up the beach and waited. After a few days the storm started to settle. The men wandered out. But their food was running out and they were cold, hungry and unhappy. Without Odysseus knowing, the men killed one of the cattle. They offered a sacrifice to Apollo and ate the rest. When Odysseus found out what was going on he got mad, he knew there was going to be trouble. What nobody realised was that they had killed one of the sun cattle. As soon as they sail off to sea a bad hurricane hit their ship. It snapped the boat in half and killed some of the men. Ten days later Odysseus was washed up on the shore of Calypso's island with all of his men gone. The Moral/lesson learned The lessons learned from this is to not trust your firends because they will be stupid and eat something thats not yours.