Odysseus: Modern Day Hero

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I disagree Odysseus is not a hero using modern day standards because a modern day hero will nerve put his partner/teammate in any harm at any cost,Modern day hero's help one another in need, have each other's back when they needed it and they always helped them when i'm harm but never ever put them in harm's way. Odysseus on the other hand use his men as bate, they all risked there live's for him no matter what the risk was. Odysseus never thought to think what will i tell there family, what would i say at there funeral if they had one for his men. Odysseus only thought about him self and no one else, and did he feel regret when he killed his own men. Odysseus and Modern hero's are nothing alike at all Modern hero's save and protect there

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