The characters Odysseus in Homer's The Odyssey, and Achilles in Homer's The Iliad, both prove to be legendary heroes in these epics, as they each possess distinctive qualities that create their heroic legacy. Odysseus is a hero renowned for his brain as well as his physicality. He possesses positive attributes of patience, courage, and endurance, yet his sensualness and his excessive pride appear to be his weaknesses. The Iliad centers around the rage of Achilles, who is an incredible fighter and hero, who shows the greatest military prowess of the Achaean ranks and has the greatest fighting ability of all the warriors, however, he too shows a fl

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