Odysseus: Metis Is His Most Important Quality
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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 Anthology of World Masterpieces, interpr ....
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.... neither backwards or forwards,
But would hold 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, excel ....
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