Homer, who was a blind bard, which is a minstrel who recited long poems about heroes of archaic time periods. In his epic, The Odyssey, he presents an epic hero that displays the qualities that are valued by the society from which he comes. ... This shows that Odysseus loved his mother with all his heart. ... In Homer's Epic, The Odyssey, it's main character Odysseus set the highest standards of an epic hero. ... Even though being beautiful doesn't help to be a hero, it does seem to be an over looked trait of all heroes. ...

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He is famous for writing both The Iliad and The Odyssey. The Iliad is about Achilles and his battle with Agamemnon. ... One if his stories, The Odyssey, taught there was something much more important than battles, and death. ... When the Greeks created their alphabet consisting of fewer characters, this revolutionized Greece. ... His play was about an old legend, but his message was about the aristocrats losing power because of democracy. ...

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In Sparta, citizens made up only about 8,000 of the population which was 400,000. ... We can find out about Pythagoras' theorem on right-angled triangles today. ... Most of them inform us about the heroic deeds of mortals or divine beings. ... He composed the "Iliad" and "The Odyssey", which are two famous epic poems. ... Often, it is thought as a kind of a story in the lives of the characters. ...

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