Think about the images you saw in the “What Is a Hero?” exercise in this lesson. What does Beowulf have in common with these heroes? Does he fit your idea of a hero?

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, throwing his arms around this marvel of a father telemachus began to weep. salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestings farmers take before they fly this excerpt is an example of which value important to ancient greek society? hospitality generosity perseverance family ties