Odysseus is without a doubt an epic hero. He goes on a perilous journey even though not by his choice. He saves his comrades from great evils. He is considered to be a great military tactician and he is known around the world as a great man. All of those qualities and feats make Odysseus an epic hero! An epic hero has to go on a long and dangerous journey. Odysseus has to do exactly that when he and his shipmates try to return to Ithaca after the Trojan War. They are thrown off-course and encounter many evil creatures on different islands that they land on. Their return is also slowed when Ody...

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... that Telemachos and Odysseus are treated throughout their journeys displays the positive and negative types of xenia. The Odyssey begins 20 years after Odysseus has left Ithaca. Ten of those years he spent fighting in the Trojan War. The remaining years he attempts to go back home to Ithaca, but his journey becomes quite difficult since Poseidon becomes Odysseus persecutor, just as Athene is firmly established as ... his protector. In one of his numerous journeys Odysseus meets the Phaiakians who receive him ... ...

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Odysseus The Odyssey, written by Homer, is an epic tale of a man who is called to fight in the Trojan War, yet receives more of an adventure than he expected. He spends twenty years just trying to get home and must rise above many challenges that are presented before him. Joseph Cambell claims there are five steps to becoming a hero: the call to journey, threshold crossings ... many demanding obstacles and through his determination he becomes a hero. The first step in order to be a hero is the call to journey. This clearly happens when Oddyseus receives the call to fight in the Trojan War. Ho...

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