The Heroic Value Of Honor In Homer's Odyssey

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In The Iliad it shows how the heroic values represent many things, heroes should value honor before life, honor is determined by how much courage he has, how he faces battles, the social status, etc. An example of how heroes value honor above life in the Iliad is how Achilles was giving Patroklos advice on not to fight the Troys. Achilles says to him:
“When you have driven them from the ships, come back; although later the thunderous lord of Hera might grant you the winning of glory, you must not set your mind on fighting the Trojans, whose delight is in battle, without me. So you would diminish my honor. You must not, in the pride and fury of fighting, go on slaughtering the Trojans, and lead the way against Ilion, for fear some one of the …show more content…
Patroklo’s determines that to maintain his honor and gain respect from his friend Achilles, he must fight. He then gets killed.
In The Odyssey of Homer Odysseus went away to fight at Troyland, leaving the Acheans by themselves for many and many years., leaving his wife, Penelope, and his son Telemachus alone. This made Penelope the most royal and highest of the gods, because of that the other lords wanted to marry her to have Odysseus money and lands. Telemachus says:
“For my mother, against her will, is beset by suitors, own sons to the men who are greatest hereabouts. These shrink from making the journey to the house of her father Ikarios, so that he might take bride gifts for his daughter and bestow her on the one he wished, who came as his favorite; rather, all their days, they come and loiter in our house and sacrifice our oxen and our sheep and our fat goats and make a holiday feast of it and drink the bright wine recklessly. Most of our substance is wasted.” (2.50-58)
Telemachus loved his mother, Penelope, and also his father Odysseus. He would get really upset because the chiefs and lords would take advantage of Odysseus not being in the palace and would feast, drink and waste the goods of Odysseus. They would also bother Penelope and ask her to marry
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