Fate And Free Will In Homer's Odyssey

"Now give those kine a wide berth, keep your thought intent upon your course home, and hard seafarings brings you all to Ithca. But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew..." Odysseus has his own decisions this quote is a prefect example of how he had control and choices in/of his life especially in the Land of the Dead and Charybdis, Sirens and Scylla that could change his journey. Odysseus had control of his own fate and was not a puppet of the gods because he was able to make his own life altering decisions.

One of the reasons Odysseus could decide his own fate, and wasn't a puppet of the gods was because he has specific plans but he could make choices that decide how easy or difficult his journey home would be.
A direct example of this in the text would be "He will not see his lady nor his children in joy, crowding about him, home from see; the Sirens will sing his mind away on their sweet meadow lolling. There are bones of dead men rotting in a pile beside them and flayed skins shrivel around the spot. Steer wide, keep well to seaward; plug your oarsmen's ears with beeswax kneaded soft; none of the rest hear that song. But if you wish to listen, let the men tie you in the lugger, hand and foot, back to the mast, lashed to the mast, so you may hear those Harpies' thrilling voices;" This quote directly shows how Odysseus again, has his own choices, and risks to take. Also, he gets to make the decision if he wants to risk all his men with Chartbdis and finish his journey alone or have the men survive and help his journey even longer or lose a few men to Scylla and take the risk of losing some of his best men and the others getting mad because Odysseus knew they were going to die. With further risk of a longer more brutal journey. The example of this in the text is "That is the den of Scylla, where she yaps abominably, a new born whelp's cry..... And no ship's company can claim to have passed her