Odysseus: the Embodiment of Heroism through Courage, Wisdom, and Strength

Being a hero requires a lot of abilities and capabilities,it requires being brave,smart,strong and have courage.Odysseus is a character from Homer’s Greek mythology story. Ten years passed since the fall of Troy, and Odysseus the Greek hero has yet to return to his kingdom in Ithaca. An anxious crowd of suitors have swarmed his palace and destroyed his land, they attempt to court his wife, Penelope, who remains loyal to her absent husband. Odysseus has all of the characteristics of being a hero,but he applies them differently and smartly,so he’s a hero.

Odysseus survived being a hostage by polyphemus for a very long time, which shows how brave he is.

Odysseus made a spear then heated and sharpened it, then he “Staked it straight into the monsters eye and they rammed it hard,”and allowed his men to escape,any person who’s a zero or a loser won’t be able to do that especially that this requires courage and bravery. When circe turned his men into pigs,he decided to help them out and he saved them. Odysseus is very smart and does things the easier but smarter way.Odysseus told his men to put wax in their ears so they wouldn’t fall prey to the sirens.

Another time where he was clever is when he gives cyclops a lot of his wine to make him drunk and fall asleep. Odysseus’s intelligence was when he outsmarted Polyphemus by telling the cyclops his name was “Nobody”(homer 9 line 360). He stabbed cyclops eye out enabling him and his men to be freed from Polyphemus’s cave via being tied to the underbelly of the cyclops’s sheep. Odysseus shows strength during the 10-year Trojan War.

Penelope told the men that anybody that was able to string odysseus’ bow that he left behind could marry her.Odysseus amazed everybody by stringing the bow that no other man could ever string. He also shows strength during his 10-year voyage home, during which he outwits the Sirens and escapes Scylla and Charybdis.

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