What is odysseus known for

While presenting itself, right from the title, as a celebration of Odysseus’ intelligence and its accomplishments in the Odyssey, this book deals with a variety of issues which are of interest to both classicists and non-classicists.

Heroic qualities of odysseus and examples

In describing the workings of Odysseus’ mind in inner deliberation scenes, the Odyssey shows how the hero’s intelligence is grounded on his ability to anticipate consequences and control his actions accordingly; Odysseus is able to subordinate other impulses to his main purpose, that of returning home.

The mental conflict which goes on in the deliberation scenes is not between “reason” and “desire”, as Plato and many scholars after him think, but rather a conflict between competing impulses. In Homer’s view, then, the mind is not hierarchically organized, and this notion, far from being primitive, anticipates the psychology of Chrysippus and inaugurates a tradition which, through Hobbes and Leibniz, leads to Peirce and Dewey.

As can be inferred from the philosophers just quoted, the book is not meant exc

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