There are many heroes in many stories but not a single one compares to how the epic hero Odysseus. The Odyssey is by the famous poet Homer is a fiction story about a king who is coming back from War and the quest back takes 20 years. Odysseus is an epic hero because he has done many heroic acts and his Larger than Life quality is his intelligence. Many people share the argument that Odysseus is not a hero but there's parts of the story that make me disagree. The part is when Odysseus and his men get trapped in the Cyclops cave and Odysseus has to use his larger than life quality to save them. “Nohbdy that's my name Nohbdy so my mother and my father call me all my friends”. When Odysseus says this it's a plan because Odysseus and his men blind the Cyclops, but when the Cyclops calls to his friends he's going to say nobody hurt me so his friends won't believe him and think he's messing with them.
There are many ways Odysseus is a hero but this example shows his intelligence and his Larger than Life quality which makes him the hero he is.
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it shows how his Larger than Life quality is his intelligence which makes him the hero he is, so the Larger than Life quality is a big role in a hero and this quote shows his larger than life quality. “Nohbdy, nohbdy's tricked me, nohbdy's ruined me”. This shows such Larger than Life quality because when he says this he's telling his friends so they will help him but that was Odysseus's plan. Cyclops does not get help because his friends think he is joking. This essay is showing Odysseus's Larger than Life quality and how it makes him a hero and this is just two examples so far out of