Odysseus

Sowerby

« Homer’s polytropic hero and polytropic plot reflect each other perfectly »

Graziozi

« It is difficult… to pinpoint his identity. By turns a comic character, a tragic hero, a stoic sage, and a villian »

King

« Owes nothing to divine parentage… fully comphrehends human reality from the start »

Camps

« Characterised in fairly simple term; his two dominant qualities, resource and endurance… illustrated with persistence »

Morrison

« Odysseus is no puppet… he needs divine advice, but makes his own decisions »

Murnagham

« Odysseus’ disguise could only be maintained with Athene’s help »

Jones

« He undergoes disguise and degradation, even namelessness, to achieve his end »