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The Iliad and Odyssey
A comparison of how the characters of Achilles and Odysseus undergo transformation. Both poems have strange and opposite resolution, where Achilles from the Iliad goes from a destructive force to becoming a good person in opposition to the Odysseus from the Odyssey who goes from being really good to killing those who have wronged him.
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