Odysseus'+Adventure

 ==** Odysseus' Encounter with the Sirens    The Odyssey is a mythical story about Odysseus and his men coming back from the Trojan War. The trip, that should have taken six weeks, has taken them more than 10 years. What has taken them so long? Along the way Odysseus and his men encounter Sirens, beautiful women that have the "voice of an angel" that lures men into their island. When someone enters the island the sirens kill them. When Odysseus and his men were sailing they realized that the island of the Sirens was appraoching and they had to do something fast. So Odysseus had his men put a big ball of bees wax in their ears and they would tie Odysseus to the Mast of the the boat. One lesson that Odysseus did learn was that he did not want to lose any more men. So he took the precautions that were necessary to escape the Sirens safely. Therefore, Odysseus and his men escaped safely and no one was harmed and they continued on their journey back home. But this was not the only in their way after the Sirens. Odysseus did not take more precautions on the obstacles and ahead and it proved to be a bad decision. **    ==        The moral of the Odysseus' decision was he had to act fast before him and his men heard the sirens'

The precautions that he took, from his men, in advance did not end the journey from getting

killed by the sirens'.