Odysseus Heroic Qualities

The Odyssey is a poem about a Classical Greek hero named Odysseus written by a famous poet homer. In the poem, Odysseus is reknowned hero with a great reputation. He leaves his homeland to fight at Trojan War at troy but coming back to his homeland it took a long. Through the duration of the journey he overcome many obstacles to return to his family in his homeland. During this phase, he shows many characteristics of an epic hero such as being extremely courageous and wholesome. Even he demonstrates feats of superhuman strengths and strong leadership as he overcame numerous great beasts and he often risked his life for the better of others hoping to achieve eternal fame. His characters reveals him as a good leader even though he had some flaws.

During his long journey, he had to overcome many challenges and numerous decisions. Just looking at the ways how he overcame these challenges shows how wise a person Odysseus was. For instance, at the land …show more content…
He is very quick thinker and resourceful survivalist, as an epic hero. As this is shown throughout the incident of the cave of cyclops, he did some tricky things but as he could get out from that trap earlier but because of his craftiness, he loses some of his companions and trouble gone bigger. The results of his craftiness wind up being catastrophic. When he and his companions escaped by hanging on the underbellies of the sheep on the cave of cyclopes where they were save but because of his sense of pride become over inflated and he began to insult Polyphemus. Odysseus was continuously teasing the giant Cyclopes so that his superiority got the better of him even though his companions was trying to stop him. He eventually told his real name to Cyclopes what was the big welcome of trouble and he did so because he was so proud of his actions. Odysseus said to cyclopes. And for this reason, he made his journey so difficult because he open up himself in front of