Many times, how we deal with the trials we face show our true character and potential. Odysseus, the leading character of "The Odyssey," by Homer, faces many trials as he tries to return home after many years of war in Troy. In several of these trials, Odysseus is required overcome great dangers as well as show that he is able to match the task of a true hero. Although he has his flaws, Odysseus was able to show that he is a hero by using his courage and wisdom throughout the trials he faced. Odysseus was able to show his heroic character traits through his brave actions throughout many of his trials. Before Odysseus encounters the goddess Circe who has turned his men into pigs, Eurylochus escapes from Circe and tells Odysseus what has happened. Eurylochus warns Odysseus, “You, even you, cannot return. I know it,/ I know you cannot bring away your shipmates;/ better make sail with these men, quickly too,/ and save ourselves from horror while we may/” (173). Eurylochus warns Odysseus not to go to Circe’s house since he is no match for the witch’s powers. Knowing this, Odysseus still decides to go to Circe’s house in order to save his men. Odysseus shows bravery because he knows that he may not be able to make it back alive yet he still risks his life just to save his crew. Furthermore, when Odysseus and his crew are trapped in Polyphemus’s cave Odysseus they had to conjure a plan to get out of the Cyclops cave. After they made the big, heavy olive branch into a long spear,Odysseus had “rammed it/ deep in his crater eye...while blood ran out around the red hot bar./ Eyelid and lash were seared; the pierced ball/ hissed broiling, and the roots popped/” (156). Even though Odysseus knew that the cyclops was powerful and vicious, Odysseus had bravely stabbed the Cyclops' single eye, blinding him, which helped them later escape the cave. Moreover, another example of Odysseus’s bravery was demonstrated in Ithika when Odysseus