A true hero will do anything to benefit not himself, but the people around him. Heroes are neither selfish nor indifferent. They look for every opportunity they have to help those in need. You also have to have gone through the entire hero's journey to be considered a hero. He will have to be naive and inept at first and, through his challenges, develop into someone worth calling a hero. More importantly, a hero is not perfect. Must listen to other people's ideas and use them. However, in Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus disrespects his crewmen and the advice of the gods, lets arrogance interfere with his men's lives, and is unfaithful to his wife Penelope. Odysseus' revenge on the suitors, whose only crime was the crime of theft, was needlessly cruel, after all a hero must be able to forgive. It's been twenty years since anyone in Ithaca last saw, or even heard, news of Odysseus. It would therefore have been entirely plausible to declare him dead. “He's been gone twenty years.” All the inhabitants of Ithaca were under the impression that Odysseus had, in fact, passed on to...