Odysseus: A Hero
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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. T ....
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.... goddesses. Those who did
not obey the rule would be punished severely. Odysseus throughout the epic,
demonstrated that he obeyed the Guest/Host relationship rule. Odysseus always
following the Guest/Host relationship rule, a characteristic that all heroes
must have according to the Greeks' tradition . All heroes must followed the
rule because if they did not, they would be punished by the immortals, and would
not be recognized as heroes. When Odysseus reach the land of the Cyclops race. ....
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