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9.8 Odysseus faces the repercussions of his acts of defiance against the gods and morality as a whole, by receiving the world of chaos and animalistic brutality unleashed upon him and his men in the same manner he released onto Troy. The Odyssey is not just a story about battling through insurmountable odds to return to the comfort of home, but a tragic journey of an inevitable punishment for the men who destroyed humanity’s honor. In the end, after years of defiance against morality and the code of the gods, Odysseus realizes the meaning of everything he had gone through since leaving Ithaca, with the horrors he committed in Troy and the purpose of his odyssey. After years of reaping the wrath of the gods, he returns to his home to be the vassal of the return of honor and morality onto Greek civilization, to unleash the gods wrath onto the suitors of the collapsing Bronze Age civilization. As the suitors fall to the vengeance of Odysseus, it marks an end to the collapse of civilization and the beginning of a new rise of civilization to an ethical level, under the rule of his pious son Telemachus. As Odysseus reunites with his wife and escapes to honor his men, he ends the age of blood that superseded him with the abominable Trojan war, and both he and Penelope finds peace with their actions and with the gods after years of suffering.  The Odyssey was ultimately the trial of Odysseus to restore the light of the gods onto the civilization he pushed into darkness and immortality.

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