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What Makes Odysseus An Epic Hero

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Odysseus is a epic hero because he shows the traits of a hero according to the greeks.
What makes Odysseus an epic hero is that he is helped and harmed by the gods,has god like strength,he comes out victorious at the end,very smart,courageous and creative. Odysseus show all these qualities of a epic hero. Through the odyssey in the beginning of the odyssey after he wins the battle in Troy. He shows that he is very courageous by telling the gods that he won the battle of Troy without them which ended up making the gods mad and Poseidon decided to take matters into his own hands and sets Odysseus and his crew off course and bad weather comes and some of his men die. When Odysseus gets to land he meets a lot of people like lotus eaters who has

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