Oh Hero, What Art Thou? Heroes are found everywhere. They have
been integrated into humanity in both the past and the present,
through all types of media, from the heroes of Greek mythology
to the heroes of DC Comics, such as Batman and Nightwing. As
humanity advances, its ideas about these idealistic protagonists
have kept their original image, while also developing into
something more. The Odyssey is considered to be one of the
oldest surviving stories about the tales of a hero. To this day,
people who spin stories have reused and recycled The Odyssey’s
original concept into various other fictional media. For
instance, the 2001 film, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is loosely
based off of Homer’s epic, and contains many references and
allusions to this great tale. Both The Odyssey and “O Brother,
Where Art Thou?” are about heroic protagonists‒Odysseus and
Everett, respectively‒that go on an epic journey to return home.
Since The Odyssey is an epic poem, created in 800 B.C. by Homer,
while “O Brother, Where Art