Is Telemachus A Hero

In The Odyssey, Odysseus and Telemachus are two heroes that go through tests to try and complete their quests. At the beginning of the book, Odysseus is a Trojan war hero who has been away from home for a war that lasted ten years. It takes him another ten to get back home. Telemachus is Odysseus’s son. Telemachus believes that his father will never come back until Athena tells him to go and try to find any information about Odysseus’s whereabouts. Both King Nestor and King Menelaus tell Telemachus that Odysseus was a great war hero that is still alive and trying to get home. The Odyssey is considered an literary epic because it is a long poem that tells of the adventures of two heroes and why they are considered heroes. So exactly what traits

Every time Odysseus is close to home, he lets his hubris get in the way, and he is blown of course again. After escaping from Polyphemus, Odysseus yells, “Cyclops, if any mortal man ever asks you who it was that inflicted upon your eye this shameful blinding, tell him that you were blinded by Odysseus, sacker of cities. Laertes is his father, and he makes his home on Ithaca.” Polyphemus then goes to complain to Poseidon, who repeatedly puts tests in front of Odysseus to stop him from coming home. Then, when Aeolus gives him a bag of winds, Odysseus’s hubris stops him from telling the crew what it is and they open it, sending them back to where they

When Odysseus first starts out his journey, he is full of excessive pride or hubris. It causes his downfall many times throughout the story and he talks to a seer in the underworld. The seer says that if Odysseus doesn’t get rid of his pride soon, then he will maybe never make it home. Odysseus slowly changes his ways, becoming more modest slowly. Telemachus also makes a big change. At the beginning Telemachus is really lost. He doesn’t know of his father, his house is being taken over, and without Odysseus there to guide him, he doesn’t know how to act like a prince. With Athena’s guidance, Telemachus slowly regains the confidence and pride he never had. This change especially starts when Telemachus finally learns that Odysseus was truly a great war hero. The changes that Odysseus and Telemachus go through make The Odyssey a great heroic