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Odysseus’ most important quality as an epic hero is his metis, a Greek word meaning artifice, stratagem, or plan. Homer even associates Odysseus as “polymetis,” or a man of “many turns.” Robert Fitzgerald, translator of the Odyssey in The Norton Antho ....

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.... it stiff, just like a man of no understanding; You would have thought him a nasty man and nothing but a fool. But when his great voice arose from his chest, And his words fell like the snowflakes on a winter’s day, Then could no other mortal man rival Odysseus. (III, ll. 210-220). In addition, Agamemnon expresses his anger towards Odysseus’ deceptive nature during a battle by addressing Odysseus as “you crafty-minded Odysseus, excellent in civil tricks” (IV, ll. 339). Odysseus’ polymetis can be observed in Homer’s illustration of Odysseus’ aptitude for carpentry and shipbuilding in the Odyssey. His woodworking skills are portray ....