Greek heroes all fulfill several generalized epic hero traits. All make several mistakes, accomplish heroic feats, come face to face with death, and protect the weak. In Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus makes numerous errors in judgment and accomplishes copious heroic feats, both of which allow him to fit the archetype of a hero perfectly. Odysseus commits multiple errors in judgement, but he always fixes the problem or is forgiven. Odysseus and his men had become trapped in the lair of Polyphemos
In The Odyssey, Odysseus embarks on a prolonged journey home in which he endures many trials that exhibit traits the Greeks revere. Meanwhile, at home his wife Penelope resists suitors who plunder her resources and Odysseus’s wealth. This epic exemplifies qualities and characteristics, such as bravery, hospitality and cleverness, embodied by Odysseus in an environment where the Olympian gods and goddesses are intertwined in Greek life. When the Greeks value a quality in a person, they hold that person
The Penelopiad tells its story in a different time period from the Odyssey as it comes from Penelope looking backward through centuries from today back to the classical Greek period. I think Atwood’s intention is to highlight how attitudes towards women have changed over the centuries. She uses the pyschology of sexual abuse to explain the maid’s behaviour. “ if our owners or the sons of our owners or a visiting nobleman or the sons of a visiting nobleman wanted to sleep with us, we could not refuse
In tales of Greek myths, the stories center around the feats and accomplishments of heroic figures. There are characters with immense strength and invincibility like that of the hero Heracles and the warrior Achilles, and there are those whose cunning outsmarts enemies like the hero Perseus beheading the Gorgon, Medusa, and Odysseus overcoming countless endeavors so he may return home. These myths are abundant with male protagonists, but lack a female heroine. The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne
The True, Epic Hero Homer’s Odyssey is about a Greek war hero named Odysseus on a journey home. Odysseus faces many enemies and problems on his journey and when he arrives home. Odysseus displays the traits of an epic hero because he faces circumstances only a hero can handle. Epic heroes are defined by supernatural abilities, and Odysseus’s experiences require extraordinary courage. Odysseus’s courage is displayed fighting the sea monsters "I donned my heroic armor, seized long spears in both
Homer’s Odyssey and Sophocles’ Electra both feature characters on a journey for justice. Odysseus questing for a return to his long-separated family and Electra working towards bringing her mother to task for the past murder of her father. United by a quest towards a goal, both characters converge and diverge at specific points. Odysseus and Electra are in agreement on motivational value and specific strategy, but they present vastly different approaches to the notion of revenge and the role of 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
deeper into the analyzation process, the most prominent question brought to my attention was whether our three protagonists, Santiago, Edmond, and Odysseus, were heroes or antiheroes. Given, there are many different definitions of the term “hero”, we will base my analyzation off my own definition of a hero, a respected individual who possesses admirable traits. Throughout this essay, I will explain and demonstrate why all three men, Santiago from The Alchemist, Edmond Dantes from
history; the Iliad and Aeneid. These masterpieces are composed of many different aspects that make them unique. These aspects included having limitation on roles of the heroes and gods and goddesses, the different point of view on what a hero is, the heroic code, and the different subjects within each epic. The works were both presented a world filled with gods and goddesses, and heroes fighting remarkable wars. Homer presented a more brutal and lawless perception of both its gods and heroes in the Iliad
attempt to be heroic; instead they simply perform acts of good without thinking of themselves. It has become common today to think heroes are made of pure bravery, have no fear, and long for justice, but realistically, that does not make a hero. Though many traits can make up a hero, the defining characteristic is selflessness, or willing to go beyond what is expected of them for what is morally right. Though it may seem like he doesn’t make the most selfless decisions, Odysseus, from Homer’s epic poem