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Archetypes In The Odyssey

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Epic heroes in The Odyssey. Only one hero, hundreds of monsters and more to come, Odysseus leaves his wife and infant for 20 years, going through a journey with tons of excitement and fear. In The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus wins the Trojan war and doesn't make it back for 20 years. In Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, he demonstrates that Odysseus fits an epic hero because he goes through epic settings, archetypes, and shows strength and guile. First Homer demonstrates traits of an epic poem in part one of The Odyssey by showing epic settings and archetypes. After visiting Circe, “Odysseus and his crew set out for the land of the dead”(Homer, 11. Abridged before line 1) Odysseus went to the land of the dead to visit Tiresias, who would help him
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