Part one of term paper
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 man who is “ski ...

Part two of term paper
... the effectiveness of his oratory: His mundane appearance and his insecure ways of presenting himself to the public did not prepare his listeners for the poignancy of his speech: But whenever Odysseus of many wiles arose, He would stand and look down with eyes fixed upon the ground, And his staff he would move 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 ...