Why Odysseus Is A Hero

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.

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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. .

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

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 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.

After this they sail to Aeaea where the goddess Circe lives. Odysseus then splits his men into two groups. One

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.

He then goes to meet Circe in her domain, where she invites him in, displaying her power. Circe uses her magic on Odysseus to turn him into a pig, but Odysseus is immune. Odysseus then overpowers Circe, and in doing so, Circe submits to him. Subsequently, they liberate Odysseus's crew, leading to significant developments in the narrative. They proceed to

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

Then, with a flick of her wand, she turns the crew into mere swine and leads them to a pigsty. In this scene, Circe is able to seduce twenty men with her sexuality. This goes to show the extent of her potent sexuality, that even when faced with clear signs of threat, Odysseus’ crew venture inside Circe’s house solely because of her beauty. Later, before Odysseus enters Circe’s house, he is aided by Hermes, who gives him a drug to prevent Circe’s magic from working on him. He is able to prevent her magic, but when he tries to run through Circe with a sword, she coaxes him by saying, “‘Come, sheathe your sword, let’s go to bed together,/ mount my bed and mix in the magic work of love/ -we’ll breed deep trust between us’”

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

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.

     Odysseus shows loyalty like Telemakhos and Penelope to the gods and his family. Odysseus is a man that can be described as tenacious. He is always focused on one objective and that is to get home. He is persistent and overcomes any temptation that gets in his way. An example of this is when he is with the beautiful nymph Kalypso. She offers him immortality to stay with her and leave his thoughts for home but he gave it all up for his family and home. He never gave up hope and continued to trudge his way back home. He also shows loyalty to the god by not cursing them for all the harmful events that occur during his journey home.

The fact that Odysseus always stands up for and takes care of his men shows that he is loyal. An example is “I drove them all three wailing, to the ships, tied them down under their rowing benches, and called the rest” (pg 1212). This quote shows how he saved his men from the Lotus plant. After the men ate the plant, they forgot all about their goal and didn’t want to go home, so Odysseus dragged them off the island, tied them in the ship, and reminded them what their goal is. Likewise in Book 12 it says “No, no, put all your backs into it, row on; invoke Blind Force, that bore this scourge of men, to keep her from a second strike” (pg 1233). This is an example of how he encourages his men to keep going. They are doubting their abilities and don’t think that they can make it, but he tells them that they’ve done it before and he stays positive. Clearly these show