An Examination of the Hero, Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey (1143 words, 3 pages)
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 Anthology of World Masterpieces, interprets this word to describe a ...
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