?? and he sacked cities for loot for income, killed dozens of men for revenge, slept with multiple women for pleasure, and sometimes raped them if they were unwilling...? Quite a dreamy paradise, isn?t it? For many this simple and crude life presents the utopian world. Others shudder at it believing it represents the worst of humankind and decadent living of the past. Some read on wishing they lived in such times, while others read …
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…wife. The Odyssey depicts a very different era from that which we live in today with strange customs and social expectations. The readers, who are not familiar with that age where morals and values run rampant, are lured to the book in a similar way explorers are drawn to the unknown. Thus, it is this mysteriousness of the Bronze Age of legends that grasps the reader?s mind and keeps it in an iron grip.