The Importance Of Virtue In Homer's Odyssey '

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These monsters and men that Heracles killed didn’t really deserve to die. In a way they did deserve it, but honestly since they didn't do anything to Heracles he shouldn’t have killed them. I know to get his labors done he had to kill these monsters and men, but he shouldn’t have. He also shouldn’t have “killed his own wife and children”, but he did that anyways. Once he killed his wife and kids I think he should’ve just been put in jail or something. I don’t like the death penalty really and I think him getting killed himself would’ve been better than him going out and killing all of those other monsters and men. Heracles didn’t kill or even hurt Cerberus, but still managed to bring him back to Eurystheus and finish the labor he was assigned

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