Achilles And Odysseus Research Paper

Achilles and Odysseus are both heroes of their own epics that Homer wrote. Both heroes have different kinds of strengths. Achilles is the strongman but Odysseus was clever. An Example of Achilles’s strength is that when Achilles stopped fighting in the Trojan war, the Greeks started to lose. An Example of Odysseus’s cleverness is that when trapped in a cave with his men and a cyclops, he named himself “Nobody”. He did this so that if the cyclops called for help, the other cyclops would be confused. Another difference between the two heroes is that Achilles was a warrior and wanted glory for himself and Odysseus was on a journey to get back to his Family.

The Similarity between them is that they both did not let the gods stand in their