Odysseus is the hero who sacked the city of Troy, during the Trojan war. When the war was over, he put his efforts toward getting home to the Greek city of Ithaca. On his way back, he encountered the son of Poseidon, The one eyed giant, the cyclops, Polyphemus. Unaware that it was Poseidon's son, he blindly made the selfish decision to mock the cyclops and reveal his true identity to him. This action was selfish because it put both he and his crew through a horrifying journey home. Odysseus fits his role as a epic hero in many ways such as overcoming obstacles and is courageous and intelligent however he lacked the honorable trait, he began to get desperate and began to let his men die. An example of this is at the Scylla, he didn't tell them about it and let six of his men die. So he is a epic hero in some ways, and in some ways he's not.