These Themes are also presented in the Homeric Epics of
The Illiad and
The Odessey.
In the Iliad, the Peloponnesian city-states are attacking Troy, and Honor is valued over life. Since many characters on both sides are killed, honor for fighting for you country is the theme.
In the Odyssey, Odysseus goes through many trials and hardships including the death of all his crew, being close to returning home then driven away, and being stranded on an island for a decade. He even visits the underworld, where all of the characters killed in the Iliad tell him it is better to live than to die, changing the theme. At the end of the epic, he takes revenge on the suitors who were wooing his wife while everyone thought him dead. The theme at the end is to live gloriously and long.
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