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Essay Archive - Odysseus: A Hero
Odysseus: A Hero
Heroism was not an invention of the Greeks. Yet, through the first hundreds
years of their civilization, the Greek literature has already given birth to
highly polished and complex long epics that revolved around heroes. These
literature works gave many possibilities of definition of heroism. The Greeks
illustrated heroism to obey the rules laid down by the gods and goddesses, and
those who obey the rules would gain honor and fame. The Greeks regarded
intelligence as one of the highest gifts that all heroes must posses. The
Greeks required that all heroes must have courage. Odysseus, one of the heroes
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