Christopher Reeves once said, “A here is an ordinary individual who finds strength to preserve and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” In modern times a hero is strong, brave, wears a colorful costume and is constantly saving people. It seems as if anyone can be a hero, if they can save a cat from a tree or return a missing child to their parents because the bar for being a hero has been set so low. In ancients times it took so much more for a person to be valued as an Epic Hero, they had to be the most courageous, the most intelligent, and the strongest amongst all mortals. The Greek Gods also took special interest in them and they embodied the traits the Greek people venerated. In the Epic, the Odyssey by Homer, the main character,
