How does Odysseus escape Polyphemus? Why does Odysseus kill the suitors? How does Penelope test Odysseus? What is happening at the beginning of The Odyssey? Why does Athena help Odysseus so much? Why does Nestor invite Telemachus to the feast before knowing his identity? Why does Calypso allow Odysseus to leave her island? Why does Odysseus sleep with Circe? Why does Odysseus travel to Hades? Why does Odysseus fail to reveal his identity to Penelope when they are first reunited?
Does Penelope really intend to marry one of her suitors? However, the use of disguise is used for the greater good in the Odyssey. After stringing the bow and firing an arrow through the axeheads, Odysseus was still disguised as a beggar. The last example is when Odysseus and his men were held captive by the Cyclops Polyphemus. As part of his cunning, Odysseus often disguises his identity — sometimes in order to survive a dangerous trial, as when he claims to be called Nobody in the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus, and sometimes in order to achieve a goal, as when he assumes the appearance of a beggar upon his return to Ithaca he also ….
Odysseus is disguised as a beggar by the goddess Athena, who helps him plot his revenge against the suitors who are courting his wife. The information he collects allows him to formulate a plan for revenge. His beggar disguise allows him to infiltrate his palace and set up the final confrontation with the suitors.
It also allows Homer to distinguish those who truly love Odysseus—characters like Eurycleia, Penelope, and even his dog, Argos, begin to recognize their beloved king even before he sheds his disguise. Athena meets Odysseus on Ithaca and disguises him as an old beggar so that he can gain information without being recognized. This bed, which is unmovable and unchangeable, represents the constancy of the relationship between Odysseus and Penelope.
When Odysseus says that only a god could move their bed, he communicates the idea that only a superhuman power could tear him and Penelope apart. Odysseus is a great example of metis defeating bie, or mind defeating might. He used his sense when escaping from the lotus eaters, wisdom against the sirens, leadership when facing Scylla and Charybdis, cunning to defeat the man eating Cyclops, and courage to outwit the suitors and get his family back. Determination and cleverness definitely helped Odysseus complete his year journey His weaknesses, vengeance, and pride, slowed him down.
He had some struggles of wanting revenge and letting his pride get the best of him. Then, he '? Odysseus knows if the entire crew would have eaten the lotus, he would never be able to regain control of them all, thus losing all hope of returning home safely and quickly. Also, when the crew encounters Polyphemous, the large, powerful Cyclops, Odysseus realizes that if they kill the Cyclops they will never be able to '? So, Odysseus gets the giant Polyphemous drunk and allows him to enter a deep sleep.
Then, when he is fully entrapped in a '? As a result, the Cyclops is not dead, just very injured and unable to see anything. Stabbing Polyphemous in the eye allows him to remove the rock and give the men a chance to escape without killing the men. Now Odysseus demonstrates that he is capable of holding off the Trojans by himself. He defends Diomedes until he can escape, and then, all alone, with the Trojans closing in, he says to himself: Now what?
It will be bad enough if I lose my nerve and run, but worse yet if I am caught here alone, as I will be, since Zeus has scattered all the Danaans. But why am I talking to myself like this? I know only cowards depart from battle. A real warrior stands his ground whether he is hit or hits another. However much he helps the Greeks in battle, tenfold he helps the Greeks and himself with his cunning.
It is no coincidence that he is sent as the captain of the ship which returns Chryseis, Agamemnon's war prize, when her father, the priest of Apollo, demands her return. Odysseus makes sacrifice to Apollo to free the Greeks from his plague. It is no surprise that the embassy Agamemnon sends to Achilles in Book 9 relies heavily on him to find the words to convince Achilles to rejoin the battle.
It is not by luck that he manages to keep Ajax from pinning him at the funeral games for Patroclus, or that he wins the foot race though Athena did give him a hand. Despite these accomplishments, he best demonstrates his ability when he and Diomedes are sent to spy on the Trojan camp at night.
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