Examples Of Odysseus Being A Modern Day Hero

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If Odysseus where to be using modern day standards by being a hero. He would be more of saving things than to harm them. Odysseus is a old hero and if he were to be in the new days. His actions would have put him in prison or in jail. Odysseus is a Greek hero that traveled and fought many challenges for over twenty years. I'm pretty sure his style of being a hero is different. So yes I agree.

First of all if he were to have modern day standards he would be a more on saving people than hurting them. For instance at the end of the Odyssey Odysseus killed all of the souters for wanting to marry his wife and for his Kingdom. In modern day he would have probably take them to get punished or he would have imprisoned them. Odysseus would be more on the leaniet side than to be rough. In modern day people learn from their mistakes if not then they will change their ways and live a new life. But back then anytime someone committed a crime they would be killed or brutally punished. …show more content…

If odysseus were to be using modern day standards he would be taking all of the people that committed a crime to prison. Odysseus would be more into the justice system then by killing all of the bad people like the souters he would have taken them to the court and let them go through the system. But back in his time he would have to kill all of them which he did. So he would believe in justice not