Comparing Beowulf And The Odyssey

These two poems are both called an epic due for this very reason here given it is a “long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national hero is known as an epic. Scholars sometimes distinguish two types: the folk epic, reflect- ing the customs, rituals, and ideas of a tribal society and an oral poetic tradition, and the literary epic, written in a more advanced civilization. The epic is typically didactic with teaching”(. In this paper, The writer will show you how these two works are similar and why you should read these two epic works in your lifetime.
As said in the Article Greek Mythology and the Christian Doctrine of God. It basically was saying that “Greeks developed a complex religious system filled with gods, goddesses, demigods, and mythological creatures. Homer’s Odyssey, and Euripides’ Hippolytus. Because of these, the stories of Greek mythology have passed down through the centuries”. So we see that just those works people can form their religion based just on those works. They do not like believing in just one God which would be the Christian faith. They have to make up gods …show more content…
There are lots of obvious similarities. An obvious similarity is there are heroes in both of these epics. Beowulf is an epic that puts good against evil. It puts Beowulf against Grendel and Grendel's mother and in the end, he comes out on top. While both The Odyssey and Beowulf examples of heroism, Beowulf acts of being a hero actually fit the description of a hero more than Odysseus. Beowulf has many heroic qualities that are easy to see. In the Odyssey, Odysseus shows different qualities of being a hero. I think these two do not believe in the Christian religion but they both show how they could possibly show there belief. They do believe in a religion and they just worship idols. They think that there gods are better than the true God that gave them