Nov 15, 2009

The Odyssey | Themes

Creativity, Imagination, and Deception
You might say that "Creativity" or "Imagination" is Odysseus's stock-in-trade. In fact, he is not mentioned by name for the first 20 lines of the poem: the first word used to describe Odysseus at the end of the very first line of the poem, is polutropon, which literally means "of many twists." We might say "shifty" these days, except that Homer does not appear to mean anything negative by the word, merely...