Odysseus went on a 9 year journey for home on a ship. The name of the book is Odyssey written by Homer. During the journey Odysseus and his men get captured and escapes, he also went through boat wreckage and almost gets killed by different types of gods and monsters. Odysseus deserves the title of a hero because he sacrificed a lot for his crew and he also shows courage and loyalty to his men as well. He sacrificed a lot to get to his beloved penelope
Odysseus has his men tie themselves to a sheep so the cyclops don’t see them. “So you ask me the name I’m known by cyclops? I will tell you but you must give me a guest-gift as you’ve promised, nobody- that is my name- nobody- so my mother and father call me, all my friends.”(9.407-411)This