Ashure Ashe says that, “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge surpass all other at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost” (1).Heroes today are not people who can defeat cyclops, or survive three headed monsters, or try to fight off giants like the protagonist of the Odyssey, Odysseus. Heroes today are people do good deeds not for their own personal gain, but for the good of others. The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus and adventures his to different places, his many battles, and his many choices and the Greeks see him as a great hero. But the reasons why he fought many battles, went to the different places and made the choices he made, makes him by today’s definition of a hero, not a hero.…