Odysseus is a hero because, he tried his hardest to keep his men as safe as possible. He often times put his men before himself. But sometimes his men didn’t want to listen to him and wound up in a lot of trouble. In The Odyssey, Odysseus told his men not to take and kill helios’s cattle, but they didn't. Helios said “even though you may yourself escape, you will return late, in bad shape, after losing all your men.”
Also in The Odyssey , Odysseus tried to help in his bad situations When his men said things they shouldn't have, or done things they shouldn’t have. Odysseus did as much as he could all the time. This shows Odysseus is a hero because When him and his men were in the cave of the cyclops, his men were eating and drinking all his food. Odysseus was joining them in this but when the cyclops came in he got mad and wanted to eat all of his men and not let any of them go. Not even Odysseus himself who called himself no man to the cyclops. The Cyclops said “Then i will eat all No man’s companions before no man himself. I will …show more content…
keep No man for the last. This is the present that i will make him.
In The Odyssey, Odysseus kept his men away from the sirens who would have lured them in and never let them leave. He also kept his men away from the Land of the Lotus-Eaters. Odysseus kept them away from the sirens by stuffing wax in their ears so they couldn’t hear the singing. Odysseus kept them away from the Land of the Lotus-Eaters by keeping them on the ship and not letting them leave, because if they did they would lose all memory of home and never want to leave the island.In The Odyssey, Odysseus promises that he will come home from his journy. That was a very hard thing to do because he didn’t know if he would be able to make it home because of all the monsters he found along the way, like scilla for example. She was a monster with “12 feet and 6 necks with the most amazing length. At the end of each neck she has a frightful head with three rows of teeth that would crunch anyone to death in a moment. No ship has gotten past her without losing some men, for she shoots out each one of her heads at one and carries off a man in each mouth.” Scilla causes a whirlpool that his men and ship get sucked in, only Odysseus and a couple of his men survive the whirpool.
The one reason that Odysseus is not a hero, is he killed all those suitors when he didn’t have to.
Odysseus came home disguised an old beggar. His swineherd, knew he was home but he didn’t let him tell anyone because he wanted it to be a secret so he could kill them all. Penelope wanted the suitors to string Odysseus’s bow, and shoot an arrow through the tops of 12 exes. None of the suitors could do it, so Odysseus who is disguised as the beggar takes the box, strings it, and shoots the arrow through all 12 axes. After that he is no longer disguised as a beggar, he is back to looking like himself. Telemachus and Odysseus now gather the weapons that they his in the room and started killing all the suitors before even asking them to
leave.
In conclusion, Odysseus was a hero to most people. He also did some things that he could be considered not a hero. But overall my opinion is that he is a hero.