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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, interprets this word to describe a man who is “skilled ....
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....ricks” (IV, ll. 339).
Odysseus’ polymetis can be observed in Homer’s illustration of Odysseus’ aptitude for carpentry and shipbuilding in the Odyssey. His woodworking skills are portrayed when he builds a raft to leave Kaypso’s island after seven years of captivity. Homer describes this boat as not a mere primitive raft, but rather to .... |
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