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What values important to the ancient Greeks inspire Odysseus' observations in these lines from the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1? "In the next land we found were Cyclopes, giants, louts, without a law to bless them. In ignorance leaving the fruitage of the earth in mystery to the immortal gods, they neither plow nor sow by hand, nor till the ground…. Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting, no consultation or old tribal ways…."

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Odysseus is the hero in the epic poem "The Odyssey", by Homer. In the lines we are analyzing here, he is criticizing the Cyclopes, one-eyed man-eating giants. From Odysseus's criticism, we can infer values that were important to the ancient Greek. According to him, Cyclopes deserve to be seen as louts because they have no laws, no rituals, no order, no system. They do no confer, discuss, work, sow. They are no better than beasts. Clearly, Odysseus and the ancient Greeks valued order, law, tradition, social organization, ad stability.

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