Analysis Of Odysseus

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Odysseus is the King of Ithaca and the husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus.
Odysseus fought in the Trojan war and came up with the strategy that lead the Greeks to victory against the Trojans. However Odysseus is not as perfect as he is portrayed as. He is a liar, a cheat and a coward. For Odysseus to win Penelope he cheated by drinking wine that made him run faster than the other suitors for Penelope’s hand. “He cheated as i later learned. My father’s Brother Tyndareus...helped him do it. He mixed the wine of the other contestants with a drug that slowed them down… to Odysseus he gave a potion that had the opposite effect.” (The Penelopiad pages 35-36)

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