Compare Aeneas and Odysseus as Heroic Figures :: The Aenied, The Oddessy

Odysseus and Aeneas argon very alike in some ways and very different. They are both epic heroes except that one is Greek and the other is a Trojan. Odysseus is from the Greek tale The Oddessy, which was written by the famous Greek poet Homer. His de piece of musicd is to find his way back home after a prospicient journey. Aeneas is from the roman tale The Aenied, written by Virgil a famous papistic poet. Aeneass mission is to find a new home for him and his family. both(prenominal) these characters had m any(prenominal) similarities and differences in their ways of fighting. twain Odysseus and Aeneas were helped by different gods. Odysseus was helped by Calypso in a way. She held him captive, but was forced to release him from the let of all Greek gods,Zeus. Athena, goddess of wisdom, helped Odysseus find out whether or not genus Penelope still loved him, she disguised him to look like an old man so he could go into the town without people knowing who he was. He got help f rom the god of wind as well who helped him by giving him a bag of wind so he could broom back to Ithaca. Poseidon did not really help Odysseus, he was just essay to convince him that he was nothing without the gods.Aeneas was never held captive by any of the gods as was Odysseus. Aeneas got help from Venus (Goddess of love), his mother. She convinced him to stop fighting because she valued him to rescue his family which was a lot more important. Jupiter also helped him because Aeneass married woman told Jupiter that Aeneas was going to kill himself, so she wanted him to send Aeneas a call attention telling him not to kill himself. Aeneas was going to do this because he pitch his father almost dead and decided to take his own life.Both of them are really great fighters, but they have differences in how they do things. Odysseus plans things out before he attacks and has a good plan as well. Aeneas however does not plan things out and just jumps right into things.