What Is The Witty In The Odyssey

The Odyssey by Homer is very famous epic poem. It has an epic setting of Ithaca, surrounding islands, and various seas in the mediterranean in Europe. The overall poem is about Odysseus adventure to get home to Ithaca from the trojan war in Troy. He goes through many obstacles including mystical sea creatures, nymphs, and evil magic witches. Hey goes through god invention when the Greek gods intervene with the mortal world. Hermes, Athena, and Poseidon were all gods and goddesses who went to help the epic hero who was a mortal, Odysseus. Not only does Odysseus go on the insane voyage home, he also losses crew mates along the way. Slowly but surely his crew mates get taken away from him by circe into pigs, death by Helios cattle, and by the
Odysseus was very witty because he came up with the battle strategy that ultimately let them win the trojan war. He created a wooden horse and hde soldiers in it to later attack. Odysseus set up a peace offering, which was the horse that help many soldiers,, they trojans accepted and believed they won the war. After a few hours after all the trojans celebrated and were very drunk, they came out of the horse, which was in the center of the town, and they attacked. They used brutal force and slaughtered many people. The Ithacan were ultimately victorious against the Trojans. Another display of wit was when he escaped from polyphemus, poseidon's son who is also a cyclops. Odysseus and his crew went into Polyphemus's cave and camped out for shelter. The cyclops was not happy and wanted to destroy and eat the crew members and Odysseus. Odysseus has to lose a few men to Polytmus by the cyclops eating the crew. Odysseus makes a plan to stab the cyclops in his eye and then claim hi name is Nobody, so when the cyclops calls out to his neighbors they believe that nothing is wrong. The plan works out flawlessly, except for when they left the island of the cyclops. When they left they left by boat to escape to another island and then ultimately back to Ithaca. The plan fell short because Odysseus was unaware that Polyphemus was Poseidon, the god of the seas, son. So, when odysseus and his crew left the island on boat and odysseus was boasting how he outwitted a cyclops, Poseidon heard and got angry because he had just injured his son. Odysseus also exemplified an epic character by his wit by listening to the sirens sing. Odysseus is the only person to ever be able to hear the sirens because he used his wit. By Odysseus placing bees wax in his ears he was able to listen to the sirens but not have to deal with the complications of him being dragged into the water ultimately dying. Odysseus exemplifies an