While home is usually represented by a physical refuge such as a house, Homer and Euripides in their respective novels The Odyssey and Medea show that home has much more meaning as a state where you can comfortably express the values ​​and beliefs that define your identity. Both authors use protagonists far from home. These characters often associate with and depend on other characters they encounter. Since they live under the influence of others, it is therefore not surprising to find that the two protagonists lose their individual identities. Furthermore, both protagonists will intentionally develop a second identity designed to conform to the society in which they live. Since both protagonists are away from home for the majority of the works, it would be appropriate to examine, through specific examples, how both authors connect homelessness with the absence of individual identity. Both authors show, in some examples, the two protagonists of each story dependent and governed by the others they encounter. This creates an involuntary or unwanted loss of identity due to homelessness. Ulysses finds himself lost at sea while trying to return to Ithaca. Even as he tries to return to civilian life, he is still influenced by his experiences as a soldier in the Trojan War. In this state, he causes unwarranted harm to others he encounters through unnecessary violence which further dissuades him from returning home. From Ilion the wind carried me [to] the Kikonians. I sacked their city and killed their people... the luck that came to us from Zeus was evil. The sacking of the Kikonians reveals that Odysseus is still very much immersed in the mentality of war. Before being introduced... in the middle of the paper... obs, but particularly in cases where the protagonists are unaware of or do not wish for the loss of individual identity and in cases where the protagonists intentionally choose to hide the individual identity using disguises. In the progression of both stories, the former is seen less often while the latter becomes more common as both characters gradually become more aware of the differences between their individual identities and the collective identities of their surroundings along with greater authorial representation of the rigidity of society. through the necessary conformation to a collective identity. Through the two works, the two authors extend the concept of home beyond the conventional representation as a mere physical structure, attributing to it the meaning of a state in which the uniqueness of individual identity can be freely expressed. Works Cited The Odyssey Medea