Comparing Hercules And The Trojan War

Greek mythology has been around for just about 3000 years, all by people verbally telling these stories through generations and generations. These stories have been changed and morphed throughout the years, but the stories all hold their moral meanings. A lot of these stories have been based around people or events that happen or affect either one man or multiple others. In Greek mythology there are multiple stories about heroes and wars; such as the story of the Trojan War, the odyssey, and the story of Hercules and the 12 labors. These tales are some of the most popular in mythology, mainly because they have been interpreted in many different ways to the point where everyone wants to know about this story, which then draws a lot of attention to this tale. The morals of these stories are very similar, to a point where they could actually go hand in hand, and In fact two of them actually do.

Although in the second part of this epic poem it tells the tale of his brutal journey back to his home. After being held captive on calypso’s island for seven years he is finally let free, but when Poseidon finds out he escapes, he crashes the raft Odysseus made. Shortly after Odysseus washes up on the shore of Scherie, the island of the Phaeacians, where he is welcomed and begins to tell the story of his journey home. Blinding Poseidon’s son, losing all of his men and being stranded at sea for ten years then ending up where he was then. This made to people at Scherie decide to help Odysseus get home. When he arrived he disguised himself, eventually reveling himself killing the suitors and living out the rest of his years in peace, also after Athena helped stop a war between Odysseus and the suitor’s