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Odysseus: Metis Is His Most Important Quality
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 in all ways of contending” (219). Th ....
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.... Odysseus, excellent in civil tricks” (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 product of a skilled, experienced builder when he compares Odysseus to a “man well-skilled in carpentry”:
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