Book 8 of the Odyssey helps to show an interesting value that the Greeks held high, and that we hold high in our society today. This important value is that wrongs done to people must be paid for. The story of Ares and Aphrodite, the argument between Euryalus and Odysseus, and the underlying conflict between Odysseus and the suitors he has not yet met are three specific instances in book 8 that prove this values importance to …
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…required in some shape or form to pay the debt one owes. Any lesson that can help deter someone from committing a crime, or more simply a wrong, is a great lesson for our society today as well as it was for the Greek society of long ago. This lesson was repeated and proven in the story of Ares and Aphrodite, the argument between Euryalus and Odysseus, and the conflict between Odysseus and the suitors.