heard the song of the Sirens and he survived. The Sirens would have eaten him if he had swum to them. Although he could not resist, and he tried hard to break free from the ropes, he survived. To the people, surviving the song of the Sirens is a great deed because almost no one ever survived because they were so tempting they made sailors and soldiers forget about home. The Siren song itself was of the story of the Trojan War and Odysseus’s greatness in the war. He wanted to listen to it because like many of the other heroes, he liked hearing of the great glory days of the war and to remember his great friends. The main function of the Siren’s story is the great survival of Odysseus when he listened to the song.When Odysseus is on the island of Alkinoos, Demodokos, the blind minstrel tells of the story of Odysseus, which in the end reveals Odysseus’ identity to the people. Demodokos supposedly represents Homer himself incorporated into the epic. It is believed that Homer was also blind, creating the connection between the two. The fact that Demodokos reveals Odysseus’ identity plays an important role because it demonstrates the importance of poetry and the oral tradition. Since the minstrel is a singing poet who tells the story, he solves a great mystery that the king cannot even figure out.The multiple narrative of this epic encapsulates the tradition of oral storytelling and the fictional world of Greece culture. It also demonstrates the multiple heroic and noble men of the times. Storytelling was a form of entertainment during the ancient times and The Odyssey, along with the Iliad, became the backbone for which the fictional Greek literature was based upon....
