Explain The Ancient Greek Customs In The Odyssey

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Alejandro Reynolds
Thomson
Freshman english
16 December, 15
The ancient greek customs of hospitality, sacrificing animals to the gods,and honoring the dead influenced the epic Odyssey.
Customs in the odyssey consist of honoring the dead when odysseus went to the land of the dead odysseus gave his sweet milk and honey,and last sweet wine and clear water to avoid death. soon after runnin into the dead he found one of his men from a previous men who died and never was barred and there was a proper burial and the dead soldier was elpenor so odysseus promest elpenor that they would give him the burial he deserved. odysseus sacrificed a sheep so he would not die in the land of the dead and they also sacrificed animals to the

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