Brains over brawns is Odysseus’ motto. In the Odyssey, Odysseus is a hero because he stabbed the cyclops in the eye, he was a great leader, and he defeated all of penelope's suitors. He was arrogant at times and that's why you might say he is not a hero. But every time he made a mistake he backed it up.
He stabs the Cyclops in the eye. If he would’ve tried to stab him when he was asleep he and his men would never be able to escape from the cave because the cyclops was the only one strong enough to open it. This shows he is a hero, because he is always thinking one step ahead.¨If I had killed him we perished there as well, for we could never move his ponderous doorway slab aside¨(Lines 204 - 205, 970).
He was also a great leader. When they were going by Silla he never told his men that 6 of them were going to die. If he did, there hopes would have be down and none would want to keep going. His main goal is to keep his men safe, and after they were turned into pigs by Circe; he got his men back. He was also a good leader when he led his warriors in the Trojan war to victory.
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He hid all of the possible weapons for the suitors to use and killed them all while being disguised as a old beggar. Penelope's nurse saw the scar on the bottom of his foot. Penelope held a test that no could complete except Odysseus. She has the beggar shoot an arrow through 12 axes but then Odysseus was the only one who completed it. Then she became aware that the beggar could be Odysseus so she held another test. That was, she had a suitor move his bed, and one of the legs were a tree so it couldn't be moved. That made Odysseus angry and he began to kill all of the