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Hero Archetypes and Epic Conventions in The Odyssey and Beowulf

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June 19, 2014

 

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The Odyssey is a continuation of The Iliad and deals with Odysseus, another hero of the Trojan Wars, who has been on a quest to reach his family in Ithaca for ten years and is continuously hampered by various trials. Odysseus is believed by many to have been a much-loved Mycenaean king (Milch 67-68)...
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Beowulf, on the other hand, does not have a true author, "...unwritten stories that had been passed from generation to generation by word of mouth," (Safier 11-12). Beowulf, like Odysseus, "is about a hero who becomes leader of his people," (Safier 12). Consequently, there is a tribal mood in Beowulf, stemming from the barrage of English tribes continually attacking the land...
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