The justice of our times is almost completely different from what the ancient Greeks considered justice. Justice, today, can be defined as the quality of being just, the principle of moral rectitude. In the Ancient Greek era and certainly during the time the Odyssey story occurred; Justice was often instantaneous and severe, almost unwavering. Odysseus is sometimes seen as the one who carries out justice or the one who is influenced by justice. In the Odyssey, we see justice as revenge and areas where we can use to say that Odysseus is a just man. An episode of justice is seen in the ninth book, when the Cyclops traps Odysseus and his men in a cave and eats a few of his men. When Cyclops was out with his sheep, Odysseus, devised a plan to escape from captivity. When Cyclops returned from grazing his sheep; Ulysses gave him some wine saying: “I brought it here to make you a nice libation” (9.391). Cyclops drank the wine and became drunk, and due to his drunkenness, Odysseus was able to carry out his revenge by blinding the Cyclops to avenge the deaths of some of his crew. Odysseus then mocks him: "Cyclops - if any man on the face of the earth should ask you who blinded you, shamed you so - tell him Odysseus" (9.558-560). This action shows that Odysseus is a just man; he does not let his people die without avenging their death. On the one hand we see Odysseus as a prey of justice as he suffers Poseidon's punishment for blinding his son Cyclops. Cyclops prays to his father: "Hear me: Poseidon, god of the earth-shaking sea-blue man!" (9.585-586). He asked his father to punish Odysseus so that he does not reach his house, or if he reaches it it will take some time. Poseidon hears the prayer and de...... middle of paper ......g—I long, all my days—to return home and see the dawn of my return” (5.242-243). who praised Calypso, telling her how beautiful she is but that he won't stop until he gets home, even if it means more suffering. Finally, some readers of this text may argue that it was not a good move for Odysseus to kill all the unfaithful maids. It can be argued that they had no choice in what they did, it can be said that the maids were forced, as Medon said: "They were too strong, too many - they forced me to come and sing - I had no choice!" (22.372-373). It can be said that the maids acted out of fear for their lives. But to counter this argument in the text it is emphasized that the handmaids slept with the suitors and some of them betrayed Penelope by telling the suitors that she was deceiving them to receive gifts instead of looking for a husband to replace Odysseus..