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Theme Of Restraint In Odysseus

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Odysseus have to show restraint because he comes back but he has to go as a beager to find out who is being good and who is being bad because he don’t want to kill someone that is being good and he has to see if his wife has been loyal and is waiting on him to return home so if he didn’t show restraint then he might blow his

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