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Odyssey

"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time here gone before us." (p.1 A Heroes
Adventure). This quote from Joseph Campbell tells you the essence of a hero. Odysseus might be a hero in the book but
Telemachus was the one who went through the real journey.

Campbell defines a hero one as "who has found or done something beyond the normal range of achievement and experience. A
hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." (p.1 A Heroes Adventure) Now if you consider
the fact that Odysseus was put in this series of predicaments but outside forces that would consider him a hero, wouldn't you? But,
he did not believe in or accept those gods as power above beyond himself. Now if he does not believe as the gods as a higher
power then he is not a hero because Campbell specifically states that "a hero is one who accomplishes something bigger than one's
self." If Odysseus does not believe that the gods are......


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