Why does Hrothgar agree to allow beowulf to fight Grendal

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following for purely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundred years after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabic imprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual history acknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation of both the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. the vast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has been integrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-called baghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages are preceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in its turn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating from indian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culture hold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisingly few details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actual position within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss links between the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveying these links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabian nights in modern iran

odyssey is know as a hero because of his flaws in his character, he fought in a war for up to ten years, he goes off and puts himself and his men in a dangerous situation on cyclops island. he saved him and his men by blinding the cyclops's eye. (he was unaware that the cyclops was the son of poseidon.) odysseus fought off gloriously on behalf of greeks in troy. he was named "war hero" because of the situation.   i also would say odysseus is a hero because of his traits that he portrays throughout the book. he is loyal to his crew and watches out for them while he is on his voyage to get back home. odysseus is a hero also because he is loyal to the ones he loves and is compassionate in what he believes in.

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