Persuasive Essay regarding to why The Odyssey should be part of a "classics" curriculum rather than a "literary" curriculum

Homer's The Odyssey has been popular for centuries, at one point it was used primarily to instruct students who were expected to learn Greek as part of their education, but nowadays, most young readers are introduced to this epic through their language arts curriculum. In fact bridged versions of The Odyssey are routinely found in textbooks. You could say that this epic has become a curriculum staple for high school language arts classics, but that …

…of violence today, and to have young adults reading about such activity and perhaps cheering Odysseus on, is unnecessary. The Odyssey is a popular work of literature and commonly read in the curriculum, it would be more valuable as part of a classics curriculum, and many other works of literature can teach the same epic concepts without its negative subliminal messages; therefore, The Odyssey's value as a part of a literary curriculum is greatly reduced.