Homer’s The Odyssey is a thrilling adventure about a brave soldier trying to get home. Faithful Odysseus uses his intelligence and wit to face monsters, gods and goddesses, and troubled land and waters throughout his journey to get home to Ithaca. Odysseus realizes strength alone will not save him and his crew. Strategy conveys a hero by giving him more strength and intelligence than just strength alone. One of Odysseus’ first journeys is the Land of the Cyclopes where he and his men scavenge
In the modern ages, Heros exists and walk among us; taking the sidewalk instead of the sky. Heros possess great strength; rather in mind, in intellectual thoughts than in muscle and bones. They transform our daily lives, our society, our countries, our continents, our world, with news of them rippling across the globe, yet they live and act as we do. Heros retain the same skin which can be cut, the same bones which can be broken, the same viruses and bacteria that can affect the body. The cycle of
one idea: being strong is not all it is made out to be. After all, what did the great hero Odysseus in Homer’s renowned Epic: The Odyssey rely on to get home safely? His strengths, or his stratagems and wiles? For various reasons, one can gain much admiration and wisdom by being smart. For instance, there is a direct
Heroes Odysseus the great, Homer’s main character in the epicThe Odyssey, was one of the greatest true heroes to the Greeks four thousand years ago. My father, David Woodruff, has proven to others he is a true hero like Odysseus. Odysseus and my father both show bravery, determination, and intelligence to prove they are true heroes. A true hero needs to show bravery. Both Odysseus and my father show bravery. Odysseus showed bravery all throughout the epic. When Odysseus was sailing into the
Homer’s protagonist in The Odyssey, Odysseus, is a legendary hero; he wins the Trojan War for the Greeks, outsmarts Polyphemus, evades the Sirens, survives Scylla and Charybdis, visits the Underworld, possesses an unhealable wound, and restores peace to his kingdom (Howell). He is not only a mighty warrior who is favored by the gods (,) but also an intellectual, known as the cleverest of all Greek heroes. Additionally, Odysseus is a loyal husband and father. He is the embodiment of the values and
In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus does prove to be a hero, because he didn't only does bad to make good, he has courage, and he also has strength. Throughout this amazing story, Odysseus shows off these amazing traits with his family, and crew. Odysseus's traits he shows us help him throughout the story, and give him the sharp edge he needs to succeed and win the battles he faces. My mom is very much a hero also, and has all of these qualities. My mom is my real-life hero, and she is the strongest
What makes a hero in accordance to Greek standards is to possess the qualities of decision making(intelligence), emotional strength(courage), and physical attributes(as well as charmfulness). Odysseus would be categorized as a hero in The Odyssey for having all of these qualities, and for his impervious attitude dealing with all the challenges that would come his way. He demonstrated himself to be a man of action and that failure was never an option. He always had to succeed with honor and glory
The Odyssey is about a man named Odysseus. Odysseus was considered a hero, The Odyssey is considered an epic. An hero is a being of godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity. A epic is a long poetic story that usually centers around a hero. In The Odyssey, Odysseus was the hero, but I don’t agree with that. I don’t think Odysseus is a hero because in each story Odysseus is narcissistic, egotistical, and self-centered. In these stories he either left his men to die
What is a hero? In our time, heroes are defined as people who have done amazing feats of kindness, and also have many heroic qualities, important ones being compassion and honesty. However, thousands of years ago a hero was someone who simply did something great (preferably in the field of war). This is portrayed in the Odyssey where the hero had none of the qualities listed above. In the poem the Odyssey, the main character Odysseus would not be called a hero in modern times, but would be called
Throughout the Odyssey, an epic written by Homer, the hero is embodied by someone who uses their cunning intelligence and strategic ability to succeed and survive instead of utilizing only their brute strength to accomplish their goals. As Odysseus meets the cyclops Polyphemus he shows that his strategy is much mightier than any amount of force sent his way in multiple instances. Odysseus had been on his way home from Troy to Ithaca, in need of supplies, he wanders into the cave of the cyclops Polyphemus