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Odysseus: The Tragic Qualities Of An Epic Hero

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The Odyssey is about an Epic Hero who travels far from home for twenty years. Odysseus is well known as the man who built the trojan horse, and angered many of the Gods. Therefor in the Odyssey Odysseus is portrayed as an epic hero. An epic hero is someone who is in a epic poem, they are strong and go on an adventure that is told as a legend. In this epic poem Odysseus shows the qualities of an epic hero. A bigger debate is, Odysseus an epic hero or ordinary man, or will his tragic flaws change the way people view him.
Odysseus is more of an epic hero than an ordinary man. People make mistakes some could be more tragic than others, some may even change they people view others. But when Odysseus puts his life before others and is a team player,
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