Odysseus is an epic hero in various ways. He is known for his strength, craftiness, and confidence. In book one, the line, “.. of the man skilled in all ways of contending.” is talking about Odysseus and is quoting that Odysseus is clever and skilled. Odysseus is also mentally strong in the way how he had to leave his family to go to battle and not being able to see them during 20 years. He is also very confident and believes he can do numerous activities. Odysseus is helped and harmed by interfering gods. For example, he is helped by Athena is battle when he returns home and kills all the men that have disrespected his wife, son, servants, house, and him. In addition, Odysseus emerges from perilous situations successfully. To illustrate,…
{Odysseus is a hero in The Odyssey because of his bravery throughout the story, The Odyssey. He may have made a few unintelligent decisions however one can’t blame someone for an unintelligent decision. Odysseus was only human and no one is perfect. }…
Odysseus suffered many problems on his journey home from the Battle of Troy. What did he suffer and how did this make him a better epic hero? Although Odysseus saves and ruins his crew's lives, he is showing the reader that he is wanting to get back to his home in Ithaca.…
When one thinks of a hero, one thinks of a good hearted person. Someone who saves lives and is righteous. An epic hero like Odysseus is not the two dimensional character found in Grimm’s Fairy Tales. He exhibits both traits of a hero and a villain. While clever and determined, Odysseus is unfaithful and selfish. Although revered in the past, Odysseus is not so glorious today.…
Odysseus, the main character of The Odyssey, certainly qualifies as an epic hero. He has help from numerous characters, defeats a handful of supernatural enemies, and is known by many individuals from across the land. These three qualifications are what set apart a normal character in a story from a true epic hero.…
If you had a friend that was brave, wise and powerful, wouldn’t you want them on your side? You should because attributes of a hero are those things more importantly a leader! Odysseus is a mortal man that is brave, proud, wise, powerful which is a foundation for an epic hero. However Odysseus has his flaws and that can be expected because no hero is perfect, and I don’t think he’s close, he killed like, a lot of people but if he was perfect we wouldn’t be talking about him anyway. He is not the perfect friend, soldier or guardian although this may be true he is a man who never gives up on his men, loyal to his family. Odysseus, the king of Ithaca and a decorated war hero in the Modern Western World because of his resilience, able to get through…
Will Rodgers, an American humorist and social commentator, once remarked that "Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth" (atd. in carnival of wit 222). While this may be literally true, most heroes live on figuratively in the recorded stories of their exploits, and in many cases they model characteristics that can inspire readers to emulate they're behavior. One obvious example is Homer's Odysseus the fictional king of Ithaca whose courage, strength, and quest for immortality define him as the prototypical epic hero. His encounters with the Trojan war, the Cyclopes, the land of Aeolia with the bag of winds, a witch that accidentally turned his men to pigs and more.…
A hero is somwone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself- Joesph Campbell. Odysseus is an an optimal hero in both the physical and metal sense. In the physical sense he is a tremendus hero, because he was challenged to all these extreme dangourous adventures; he umexpectly walks out alive after questioning for ten years long and facing the most extraordinarily dangerous creatures and people. Why would Homer set up this whole exciting experience with all the strange comings that Odysseus has to go through, if this was not to show that this stong and intelligent man is a great hero of the Greek world? What will a strong itelligent hero of greek times look like?…
In conclusion, Odysseus is an epic hero because, he is very crafty, by tricking the cycpolys and suitors to get out of harms way Odysseus showed craftiness. Another reason is the ideals he came up with like getting the cycpolys drunk and killing the suitors. Lastly, he showed bravery, he was brave enough to get threw all the hardships thrown his…
From this point on in the journey Odysseus learned all of the skills from the past events. He learned to think about consequences, To stand up and take charge, He has to be vigilant and never be distracted or careless,and to keep priorities straight and think through decisions before making them. It’s easy to see that from each obstacle he faced he learned and changed. Until he was a better leader than he was before. Not too headstrong but not to slow. He had to make good decisions. And it was those skills that got him home and gained his wife and son back, and become a better king for his…
To consider someone a hero, he must boast certain characteristics that are harder to detect in an average person, such as being humble, merciful, loyal, and a great leader. King Odysseus of Ithaca survived the Trojan War. While most of his other men returned to their native lands immediately following the war, it took Odysseus ten years to journey home because of his lust for other women and desire to prove he was superior to everyone. Odysseus and his group of shipmates faced countless obstacles, which claimed the lives of more men as their journey went on. Not only did his procrastination kill off his men, but his mother as well, who longed to see him and gave up when she realized she would never see him again. Through the many actions Odysseus took on his trip home, including murder…
What is an epic hero? Homers’ “Odyssey” is about an epic hero named Odysseus and his quest home. “The Odyssey” begins after the Trojan war had left Odysseus trapped, pointlessly seafaring for 10 years after angering Poseidon, the god of the sea. He tries desperately to return home to Ithaka and his wife, Penelope, and newborn son, Telemachus. Odysseus then has many hardships upon which he overcomes through his intelligence and wit. Odysseus is an epic hero because he is intelligent, he listens to the god’s advice, and he is witty; able to think on his feet. With the help of the gods he can survive things most men couldn’t.…
Epic heroes are ones who go on long journeys, also known as an odyssey, and bring with them the values and beliefs of their society and civilization. The Odyssey by Homer is a story about an epic hero named Odysseus, who is not only a brave, wise, and strong leader as well as a warrior, but he is also an arrogant and vengeful man, who’s downfall is beautiful women. Epic heroes contain characteristics of loyalty, bravery, and arrogance as they are believed to be more than a mortal but less than a god. Odysseus proves his loyalty, bravery, and arrogance as he continues to fight the challenges he obtains from island to island, cursed by Poseidon never to return home.…
In the Epic, Odyssey by Homer Odysseus has to save his men and get them home. Odysseus is a modern day hero hero. He qualifies for the job because first he is brave, cunning, and determined. He made smart decisions and knows how to get out of sticky situations. Second he is brave and he is ready for whatever comes his way. Although the ancient greeks consider odysseus a hero epic hero, according Modern day to Ethos and Logos he fails to measure by modern standards.…
First an epic hero has very strengthened traits. What I mean by that is there are all sorts of heroes in the world, to an everyday human. But an Epic hero has stronger traits. Examples of those would be some have strength and a lot of it; others are crazy intelligent, courage plays a big role in an epic hero as well. If you posses all the other traits but no courage what good does that have. Knows his/her responsibilities, quest, objective that is some of the ideas that defines an epic hero. Aristotle a Greek philosopher mentions “there must be the same varieties of epic as of tragedy.” I believe what is meant by his words is why you would consider an epic hero that only helps with little destruction, in other words he has easy opponents or…