The Ideal Hero Each culture does have its individual images of what the ideal hero should be, but for the most part, the general definition of a hero1 is universal and therefore difficult to escape. In the cultural epics of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, and Things Fall Apart the idealistic hero is thoroughly depicted. ... Odysseus, the heroic character of The Odyssey, is cunning, brave, and noble. ... Odysseus, like Okonkwo, is considered a tragic hero as well. ... (What an early Mesopotamian hero is supposed to represent.) ...

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In The Odyssey, Homer elucidates how abiding to the demands of Ancient Greek sacrificial rituals may grant approval by those gods, often engendering their assistance or support in life's excursions. ... As Zeus clarifies his opinion of hero Odysseus to his daughter Athena, who is seeking his help in protecting the suffering him from the ceaseless danger he has encountered, he proclaims, " 'Great Odysseus who excels all men in wisdom, excels in offerings too he gives the immortal gods who rule the vaulting skies?'... In The Odyssey, Homer makes it apparent that sacrificial...

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Serving one's city in battle was considered a great honor and a means of becoming immortalized as a hero. ... Many epic poems such as The Illiad, and The Odyssey were also written, as well as historical accounts depicting the Persian Wars, and the Peloponnesian War. ... Instead, the only was to be remembered was to become a war hero, and be immortalized through song and stories. ... Do we not, still remember our "war heroes?" ...

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The ancient Greeks had a huge impact on western civilization. They have made major contributions to the world. They have done this through politics/democracy, the arts, literature, philosophy, science/math and war/military. To this day we see many of their practices still in us. Many countries ...

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These individuals were the first metaphysicians on earth, searching for the reality hidden behind appearances Greek Philosophers Homer, the blind poet Homer was a blind Greek poet, to whom are ascribed the two greatest epics known to man: The Iliad and the Odyssey. ...

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As ancient Greek history has played such a pivotal role in subsequent cultures throughout time, that to learn about women in this society enhances our understanding of western civilization. Ancient Greece was not a united nation, but a collection of individual sovereign communities with a common lan...

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