The various strange societies Odysseus encounters on his journey all serve to support the society that is viewed, then and now, as the ideal. That society is one which has unity, a system of laws, recognition of the common good by the citizens, and a means of protecting itself. Some of these are antithesis of an ideal society; others present certain aspects of an ideal society. The Kikones were a people who inhabited Thrace (An …showed first 75 words of 903 total…

…showed last 75 words of 903 total…such a society. However, it was far from irrelevant to the Greeks millennia ago. Societies were just taking shape. The ideas that would govern the empires of Europe were still in their infancy, and some were not yet conceived. The Odyssey can give us an insight into the formation of society and government, and, as a result, also gives us a perspective on how we perceive our society today, and the origins of our laws.