However, these actions were justified, and even portray him in a sense of loyalty and justice. The importance of family is a reoccurring theme in The Odyssey. When Polyphemus, Poseidon’s son, was blinded by Odysseus and his crew, he cries out to Poseidon, a child making a request to his beloved father, “If I am truly thine, and thou art called my Father, vouchsafe no coming home to this Odysseus…” (89). Akin any normal father, Poseidon answered the pleas of his child. Revealing that Poseidon does care about his son, and that he is a kind-hearted God. The importance of family being a reoccurring theme, the Ancient Greeks treasured it, and to have a God demonstrate that verifies that the Gods were thought of to be
However, these actions were justified, and even portray him in a sense of loyalty and justice. The importance of family is a reoccurring theme in The Odyssey. When Polyphemus, Poseidon’s son, was blinded by Odysseus and his crew, he cries out to Poseidon, a child making a request to his beloved father, “If I am truly thine, and thou art called my Father, vouchsafe no coming home to this Odysseus…” (89). Akin any normal father, Poseidon answered the pleas of his child. Revealing that Poseidon does care about his son, and that he is a kind-hearted God. The importance of family being a reoccurring theme, the Ancient Greeks treasured it, and to have a God demonstrate that verifies that the Gods were thought of to be