The story of the odyssey is a great story of an epic hero cursed by a god after his great victory and he has to overcome many challenges to make it back home to Ithaca. The character trait our epic hero “Odysseus used in the story was knowledge. For example Odysseus had to our smart many monsters, gods and wild men so he could save himself and his crew. Knowledge is a trait used by many epic hero’s to overcome the obstacles in their path. Odysseus has many character traits that come into play but knowledge is his primary skill. Odysseus used his knowledge of his surroundings to understand he could not kill the cyclops. Most of the men in the cave with Odysseus wanted to kill the cyclops. Odysseus knew the cyclops was the only one who could
