Terrible, Wonderful Odysseus: The Meanings of his Epithets, His Name(s) and How We Read Him.

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As oral poetry needs to be flexible the epithets that Homer used to describe his gods and heroes enabled that metric flexibility. Dive into more parts of Homer's and Athena's favorite: Odysseus.

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