Odysseus Bad Leader

Is Odysseus good or bad leader? One of the huge discussion of a greek hero ,that is going to be about Odysseus that has good side of being a leader,also a bad side,too.People in history says that he is bad leader,such as selfish to his men by”sacrificing them to monster.”Also people in history ,also say that he is good leader,by being heroic,strong,winning the trojan war with his intellects skills.

The issue is that Odysseus has bad,good sides,for example in the story that he knows how to rescue his crew from trouble.and with his intellects skill,bravery he blinded the horrifying mighty polyphemus or cyclop,also was able to win the trojan war.The bad sides about Odysseus that in the story he let some of his men died, also not telling his crews about the sea monsters, he refuses to leave the cyclops's cave,and let some of his crew get eaten very badly.He blames on his mens on the raid on the cicones for not listening to him.He didn’t tell his men about the bag of wind from Aeolus,and Odysseus went asleep,and got blown back to Aeolus’s land for opening the bag from …show more content…
For example in book 12, Odysseus didn’t warn the crew about the sea monsters,and letted the six men died from the crew. (274) Odysseus says it’s better than having everyone die from the sea monster , so they have to scarface some of the men,because the world is not perfect, and sometimes heroes can’t always save everyone in time. For example in book ,Odysseus blames the crew for not listening to him while raiding for the cicones,and the Odysseus just left them in the place,and too late the some of the crew got killed by the cicones neighbor for help.(213)Odysseus sometimes can’t save his crew in super in danger,also this situation the crew didn’t listen odysseus,so he is disappointed at them ,did deserve