Comparing Odysseus And The Odyssey

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A hero is someone who steps up when everyone else backs down and fights even when he is afraid. Menelaus and Odysseus are both very successful in war. Menelaus is one of the leaders in Troy that returned home and took great treasures that he got along the way from Troy. In addition, Odysseus is the leader who came up with the brilliant idea of the Trojan horse. When Telemachus is visiting at the house of Menelaus, Menelaus tells him about the Trojan horse and says, “ what a piece of work the hero dared and carried off in the wooden horse where all our best encamped, our champions armed with bloody death for Troy” (133). Menelaus tells Telemachus the famous story of the Trojan horse, which helps the Greeks to sneak into Troy and slaughter