Poets like Homer and playwrights like Aeschylus started incorporating these barbarians into their heroic tales and historic dramas as a way to create foreign opposition for their heroes and the one unifying aspect of their tales is how they describe these strangers from strange lands. ... Homer's Odyssey is one of the Greek epic poems that show extreme differences in foreigners. ...

• Word Count: 1036
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate