![]() ![]() Soon they forget all about their efforts to get home as a result of eating the lotus. Some of his men, hungry as they are, accept the lotus-eaters' offering of some of their lotus to eat. He ended up defeating all of these men, convincing Penelope that he was really Odysseus and earning his pre-war life back. Odysseus' cunning is shown in many examples, such as when he encounters the lotus-eaters. This meant that the suitors who wanted to marry Odysseus’s wife Penelope did not know Odysseus was home. Another example of Odysseus bravery was, when Patroklos, a friend of Achilles 's, was slain, Achilles had wanted nothing more than to charge into the Trojan war, with no thought given for any need to have rest or provisions for food. Meanwhile, Odysseus had his men tie him to a mast on the ship as to not allow Odysseus to die due to the Sirens’ song.Īfter reaching Ithaca after having been gone for 20 years, Odysseus, with Athena’s help, disguises himself as an old man. He laid beeswax over his men’s ears so they were unable to hear the sweet song of the Sirens. When it came time for Odysseus and his men to cross paths with the Sirens, Odysseus devised a plan to save everyone. Another example of Odysseus’s intelligence was when he outsmarted Polyphemus by telling the cyclops his name was “Nobody.” He also had the plan to carve a giant stake out of a tree in order to blind the cyclops, thus enabling him and his men to be freed from Polyphemus’s cave via being tied to the underbelly of the cyclops’s sheep. ![]()
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