To completely understand the true meaning of an epic hero, one has to be familiar with the original epic hero a man of legendary proportions, a man by the name of Odysseus. After reading the Odyssey one can easily see that every hero in play, movie or book has some Odysseus like quality. Odysseus is a man that every man wants to be like and every woman wants to be with. He has unsurpassed physical strength which coincides with a sharp intellect, he has an insatiable thirst for glory and courage that takes him beyond the level of mortal men.

The Odyssey was written between 750 and 650 B.C., by the poet Homer, and is set in Bronze Age Mycenaean Greece after the fall of the city of Troy, post Trojan war. The epic is about the hero which is previously discussed, Odysseus. After the fall of

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