Biography of Odysseus The story of Odysseus is a greek mythology that teaches many people life lessons. In this story readers consider Odysseus an epic hero. An epic hero is a hero that undertakes a dangerous voyage. After the trojan war Odysseus must make a ten year long voyage to take him and his men back home. During this ten year voyage many epic events happen which result in Odysseus losing some of his men. One of the first main events is when Odysseus takes ten of his best men to the cyclops cave to steal food “here’s liquor to wash down your scrapes”(Homer). Unfortunately both Odysseus and his men fell asleep in the cave and end up getting trapped in the cave. Odysseus idea was to blind the cyclops named Polyphemus. Then