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The development of Western Civilization can be tracked back to the writings of the Greeks. Several Greeks include Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Plato laid the foundation of the Western worlds of heritage. The epic poems of Homer stressed the many characteristics that the Greeks admired and rewarded. These include heroic traits, bravery in battle, personal honor, a love for adventure, and cleaver behavior. The Odyssey deals with adventures of Odysseus after the Trojan War. Odysseus wife Penople is to marry a man that can accomplish a trait that only Odysseus is able to accomplish. When Odysseus returns home he dresses up as a beggar to take everything that he has missed in the time that he was gone in, instead of just showing up as himself. On the way home from the War he was punished from the Gods, and they set him through obst