There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Hector, though usually portrayed as more positively in stuff following The Iliad than in the original story itself.
What the heck is Beowulf wearing?
Who drew on the historical Arab traveler Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan
Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
By "Ulysses" do you mean the version of Odysseus that's presented in the Aeneid? Virgil had an agenda, since his book is about Aeneas, a Trojan, he has to make the Greeks look bad. So from that perspective Odysseus is the bad guy because he enabled Agamemnon's raid on Ilium.
For the Greeks, we're talking about centuries here. The Odyssey is a story that dates back to the 12 century B.C. and the Homeric version we know was being sung around the 8th century B.C. Over the centuries how the Greeks viewed Odysseus changes with how they change themselves as a people.
The Homeric version, I think, is quite heroic. He's the thinking man's hero. He's not just exceptionally strong, he's smart. And he survives by his wits. The gods look on him with favour, because he's such a good guy. His ploy to get inside Ilium is an example of his intelligence.
Some later Greek writers did treat Odysseus as an untrustworthy fellow. But hey, if you're from Athens you probably don't trust anyone from Ithaca. Athenians spoke Doric Greek, Ithacans spoke Ionian Greek.
It's a cultural thing. In some cultures at some periods of history, surviving by your wits and knowing how to steal stuff is important. A lot of the Greek myths are about some dude stealing stuff--and that's good. In the recent past we looked at people who steal stuff as heroes. Now we look at them as bad guys (maybe).