Who Is the Most Epic Hero? Odysseus is the most epic hero. After fighting for ten years in the Trojan War, Odysseus and his crew travel home to Ithaca. The face many obstacles and monsters on their journey that should take two weeks but ends up lasting ten years.…
Odysseus had to come through the suitors. The witch which he had to take her to bed and drink her wine with honey he didn’t turn into a animal because a goddess gave him position to eat that stopped him from turning into a animal. He landed on an Island and she didn't let him go because she says who comes to her island and stays in her island. A goddess told her if she doesn’t let him go he will sink her island, so she lets him go. When he does leave her island he suffers on his way because he was getting drowned by the waves.…
An overwhelming event that Odysseus faced was with the Lotus-Eaters. His men were drugged and Odysseus is charged with forcing his man back on the ship in order to stop the delay for home any longer. A next travail that faces Odysseus is when he reaches the island where the Cyclops lives. The Cyclops keeps his men captive as he systematically eats them, while Odysseus devises a plan to escape the island and free the rest of his surviving peers. Odysseus also faces Syclla and Charybdis which are two sea monsters.…
He comes across the island of the Cyclops, Polyphemus. Odysseus goes into the Cyclop’s cave, “[wishing] to see the cave man”(Homer 565). He has never before met a Cyclops and does not know what he will act like. This relates to the “Hero’s Journey” because the essay states, “As they embark on their journey, the hero's enter a world they have never experienced before” (Campbell). This is just one of the many challenges Odysseus faces on his voyage to his home.…
In the epic, The Odyssey" by Homer, Odysseus must travel and conquer many traps that the gods lay before him to reach his goal of getting hoe to Ithaca. he and his crew maneuver their ship directly into the island of the one-eyed cyclops who will eat anyone in his oath. Odysseus must use his intelligence to outwit the brazen monster, and save his shipmates from death. Also, the team must overcome the trials that the great and cunning goddess who is own sister to the magician Aeetes, Circe, puts in front of them. Such as when she turn the sailors into swine, and she wants Odysseus to sleep with her, and live with her for a year.…
This is partially because he had angered multiple gods, which caused his otherwise short voyage, to last years. In this epic Odysseus tells stories leading up to his stay on Calypso’s island. We hear of his arrival at the land of the lotus eaters, his fight with Poseidon’s one-eyed-son Polyphemus, the affair he has with Circe, his encounter with the deadly Sirens, the voyage he takes to Hades, and a battle with Scylla and the whirling waters of Charybdis. After enduring these hardships and losing his men, Odysseus spends a long time imprisoned on Calypso’s island, only escaping due to Zeus sending…
In the Odyssey Odysseus has to face many challenges during his journey , a few of these challenges were cannibalistic Cyclopes , giant whirlpools , determined suitors , plus much more . However , even though all of those challenges and enemies seem like the biggest threats , they really are not. Odysseus’s ego and pride is what hurt him the most because it slows him down for…
After that passed Odysseus had to venture home with his hearty shipmates, which lasted almost another 10 years just to reach home. Odysseus who was already known to be like a sly fox, has a very cunning mind especially trying to get himself out of trouble. Which is one reason to become a hero, act fast if someone's in danger or saving people in distressed. For one example was when Odysseus tricked the Cyclops Polyphemus into calling him “nobody”, to hide his real name without getting cursed. In a time of distress, Odysseus came up with a plan to stab Polyphemus in the eye with a club the size of a mast.…
What made Odysseus an epic hero? Well, one thing that made him an epic hero was his intelligence. He showed his intelligence once when he told the cyclops his name was nobody. He also showed intelligence when he came up with the Trojan horse. That is one reason he is considered an epic hero.…
He faced many menacing creatures throughout his adventure, but nothing stood in his way. He is one of the first epic heroes ever to be known of in history. I will prove that Odysseus is an epic hero and how the characteristics that he has, has helped him throughout the challenges and obstacles along his journey home. In Homer’s, Odyssey, Odysseus proves to be and epic hero due to his bravery. Odysseus comes across several difficult obstacles and…
Essay During Odysseus journey back to Ithaca, he encounters many different challenges along the way. Odysseus approach to these numerous conflicts tells a lot about his character. Odysseus is a confident, skillful, intelligent and an arrogant man when he faces some difficult situations. When he visits the Cyclops, to learn if he was friendly or hostile, Odysseus showed confidence when the Cyclops ask who had intruded in his cave.…
Unfortunately, to reach their home, they were forced to sail directly between these two dangerous hazards. Odysseus was left with a huge dilemma. Should he sail closer to Scylla or Charybdis? He chose to go closer to Scylla, and this showed how he could make major decisions under great pressure anticipating a succesful out come. If they had gone near Charybdis, all of them would have most likely drowned.…
This required a lot of strength in order to hold onto the piece of wrecked boat for 9 days. Finally, when Odysseus was returned to his homeland of Ithaca with help from the island people he had met when he washed up on to their island he hadn’t gotten his life back yet. Odysseus was gone for a long time and during that time rude suitors for his wife moved into his house. In order to get his life back he needed to get rid of the suitors so he could have his family back. When Odysseus reunited with his son they made a clever plan.…
Odysseus says, “’I wanted to see [the Cyclops] and claim the stranger’s gift… So we lit a fire and made our thank-offering, and helped ourselves to as many cheeses as we wanted to eat; then we sat inside till he should come back with his flocks’” (111). Odysseus is impulsive and does not think before he acts. He is very selfish and only wants to see what glory the Cyclops gives him. He expects everyone to bow down to him, let alone know who he is, contrasting Odysseus when he fights the suitors at the end of the story and receives glory from his city. When Polyphemus, the Cyclops who happens to be Poseidon’s son, returns home, he traps Odysseus and his crew in his cave.…
“The Odyssey” is an epic poem that consists of 24 books and is told by the creator, Homer, during the ancient Greek times. All epic poems contain an epic hero, this classifies a specific person as the protagonist of the story that goes above the readers expectations. Odysseus is an epic hero because of his intelligence, bravery, and glory. Odysseus is an epic hero because of the intelligence that he displays throughout the poem. Odysseus shows his intellect by his ability to think under an immense amount of pressure.…