Why Odysseus Is A Hero

When Odysseus and his men come to their island Calypso, first, uses her beauty to captivate him and keep him with her. She wanted him to stay with him and be an immortal husband to her. She was ordered to release him and she eventually did. However, Circe wanted Odysseus for herself. She lured Odysseus and his men with her beauty, she then poisoned them and kept Odysseus for herself. He gave in to the temptation. “So she spoke to them, and the rest gave voice, and called her and at once she opened the shining doors, and came out, and invited them in, and all in their innocence entered; only Eurylochos waited outside, for he suspected treachery. She brought them inside and seated them on chairs and benches, and mixed them a potion, with barley and cheese and pale honey added to Pramneian wine, but put into the mixture malignant drugs, to make them forgetful of their own country. When she had given them this and they had drunk it down, next thing she struck them with her wand and drove them into her pig pens, and they took on the look of pigs, with the heads and voices and bristles of pigs, but the minds within them stayed as they had been before.” (Homer, 1994-2009)

In The Odyssey, the hero Odysseus shows many heroic traits, the one I think is most important is loyalty.

Loyalty is a trait that can help guide you through many difficult situations. It is a quality that the Ancient Greeks were shown to value through their epics. Odysseus, hero of Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, is a character that reveals several values of Ancient Greek culture through his qualities of honesty, devotion, and support. One of the most prominent values portrayed throughout the story is loyalty.

Odysseus can be described as tenacious; he always has one main focus on an objective and that is to get home. With persistency he overcomes any temptation that gets in his way. Loyalty was also shown by odysseus in that he was very loyal to his crew. He helped them and they helped him. An example of this is when Odysseus see elpinor and hades and goes back to the island to bury him. He is also loyal when he goes and rescues them from circe. He could’ve not buried elpinor nor rescue his crew from circe but he remains faithful to his constant loyalty towards his crew

Odysseus deserves loyalty from his men because he can get his men because he can get his men out of tough situations. Odysseus deserves loyalty because he got his men out cyclops cave. .

Loyalty is easily one of the most obvious themes in the Odyssey. Several of the characters have varying levels of loyalty. This loyalty may be weak, strong, or even nonexistent. Some of the most loyal characters appeared when Odysseus returned back home, because most of them didn’t even know if he were still alive, yet they held out faith for his return. Odysseus’ family is particularly loyal, but they aren’t the only loyal ones when he returns home.

Loyalty: Loyalty is most apparent in Penelope's resisting of the suitors, but it is a trait essential to all the characters in Odysseus' family. For twenty years Odysseus never stops wanting to return home. Telemakhos will not send his mother back to her father and force her to choose another husband. Instead, he sets out to find news of his father. The servants Eurykleia and Eumaios are also important exemplars of loyalty. Athena's devotion to Odysseus is another.

Loyalty is an essential value to Odysseus. One way Odysseus was loyal in the story was he stayed loyal to his homeland, Ithaca. Odysseus even said: “Rough years then lie between you and your homecoming, alone and old, the one survivor, all companions lost”(12.107-106). He kept trying to return home and overcame all the obstacles set forth by the Gods and Goddesses. Another example is Penelope, she is loyal to Odysseus by tricking and cunning her way out of remarrying, even after ten years. She stayed faithful, by saying she would remarry once she has finished weaving, but then would unravel her days work at night. Another example of loyalty is when Telemachus goes searching for his father, staying loyal to his family, even though he has never met his father. Telemachus doesn’t even know who Odysseus is but remains faithful to his family and father.

Being loyal means being committed to something or someone. Nowadays loyalty means nothing to anyone. Someone will betray you whether your friends with them or not. In the poem “The Odyssey”, Odysseus shows loyalty. Odysseus shows loyalty by always sticking by his men, his love for his wife, and wanting to come home to his son.

Odysseus: The Hero of all Time Being a hero isn’t just about the fame and glory. It is about the characteristics of the person and how they decide to use them. This epic poem, The Odyssey, written by Homer, has many examples that show off the heroic traits of a character named Odysseus. Two heroic traits that Odysseus acquires are his intelligence and his self confidence. During his journey, the brave Odysseus went through many obstacles that forced his journey to a standstill, but his intelligence and self-confidence helped him survive and return home to Ithaca.

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The enchanting and comely sorceress Circe lived on the island of Aeaea. She welcomed Odysseus’ sailors to her feast, but when they became greedy and devoured everything, she turned them into pigs. They were treated like swine, placed in a pig pen and given fodder to eat. When Odysseus came to rescue his men, she tried to turn him also into a pig, but he would not succumb to her dark magic as he had been given a plant by Hermes to protect himself. Circe later went on to stay with Odysseus for several years, until he and his men pleaded with her to return home. While he was leaving, Circe told Odysseus only to descend to the Land of the Dead, and pay a visit to the blind prophet, Teiresias.

an island for a long period of time, but through perseverance, he is able to escape. Towards the beginning of Odysseus’s journey home, he comes to the land of the Lotus Eaters. They share their lotus fruits with Odysseus’s men, and then all the men become reluctant to return home, saying they want to stay on the island. Odysseus must keep trying to get them on the ship, and if he was not persistent enough with his men, they never would have left the island. Later on in his journey, he ends up on Aeaea, which is the goddess Circe’s island. Odysseus and his men end up staying there for a year, and then they finally realize that they want to go home. After Odysseus talks to Circe about wanting to leave, she agrees, but tells him he must go the the Underworld before returning home. He is not happy about what he has

Circe will not change them back unless Odysseus sleeps with her, in their argument Odysseus said “How dear you tell me to treat you with warmth? you who turned my men to swine in your own house now you hold me here as well - teeming me with treachery you lure me to your room to mount your bed” (10.74-77) Odysseus was mad at Circe but slept with her to save his men.

(10.370-3). Here, Circe uses her sexuality as a means of enticement in order to overcome Odysseus’ brute