2007-12-12 05:04:49 · 9 answers · asked by jazzy 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
He always gets the best answer on yahoo answers.
2007-12-12 05:07:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 11⤋
Odysseus Intelligence
2016-10-22 02:36:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most outstanding example is his escape from the Cyclops. He and his men are penned in a cave where only Polyphemus can move the stone from the mouth, and Polyphemus is systematically eating them. Killing him won't do any good, because they'll still be trapped in the cave. So Odysseus puts into effect a plan requiring several steps:
1) He gives Polyphemus wine and gets him so drunk that he passes out.
2) He puts out Polyphemus' only eye, so that they can stay out of his range.
3) He anticipates that, even when Polyphemus opens the cave to let his sheep out, he'll feel to check that no men get out, so
3a) he has his men get under the bellies of the sheep and cling to the wool, so that when Polyphemus feels everyone going out, he'll feel only the backs of sheep.
The details of this incident are probably already familiar, but it's what they show about Odysseus' thought processes that matters here.
Other examples that show how well Odysseus can think on his feet (though not always literally!):
When he awakes on the beach in Scherie and hears women's voices, he has the presence of mind to lie still until he has assessed the situation, and then, because he doesn't have a stitch on, he holds a leafy branch in front of him when he emerges from his hiding place.
He can immediately make an eloquent speech praising Nausicaa the instant he sees her.
He's very good at making up a fictitious background for himself, repeatedly, on a moment's notice.
He finds the pleasantly spaced-out, unthinking existence of the Lotus-Eaters unappealing.
He has the mind-over-matter willpower not to eat any of the cattle of the Sun God when his men do, and knows better than to reason, as they do, that they can appease the god by offering him a sacrifice of parts of the forbidden cattle they have killed.
He devises a plan to even the odds between himself and the 108 suitors in the climactic fight.
He proves his identity to his father by recalling a long-ago incident in detail.
Calypso bores him, but he seems fondest of Penelope when she displays her own cleverness.
2007-12-12 05:32:36 · answer #3 · answered by aida 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
He spends all of the Odyssey using his wits to get closer to getting home, in spite of the fact that he's got several of the gods mad at him.
Two examples of him showing his smarts:
- He figured out how to hear the Sirens' singing without endangering his ship by having his crew block their ears with wax, leave Odysseus's ears unblocked, and then tie him to the mast.
- He figured out how to deceive the cyclops Polyphemus and escape with **most** of his men, and even set up Polyphemus to look like a fool when he called for help ("Nobody is hurting me!").
2007-12-12 05:15:14 · answer #4 · answered by Navigator 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well the plan of getting out of polyphemos' cave was a good idea. "Odysseus and his companions fastened themselves each under the belly of one of the great sheep within the cave, knowing that the gaint would let them pass out unmolested. And so it was; for, feeling the fleece [for they earlier blinded him] as they passed, he was quite satisfied." I guess the Nobody idea was good as well
2016-03-14 07:27:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trojan horse, the strategem by which the Greeks finally captured Troy, and one of the most famous tricks in all of history, was devised by Odysseus. This is only one example of his intelligence and cunning.
2007-12-12 05:12:06 · answer #6 · answered by dnldslk 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
He chooses to go through scylla instead of chardybis bbecause in scya h onlyloses 6 men instead of all his crew
2015-11-18 16:35:25 · answer #7 · answered by Sal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many ways he had a good intelligence through everything, hiding on the bellies of rabs against the waiting presence of the cyclops.
he let the cyclops live,
having him self tied and all his men ear plugged when it came to the sirens so the only one to suffer was him.
There are so many many ways. you should really read more in to it.
2007-12-12 05:11:56 · answer #8 · answered by Katrina Vladden 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
BY TRICKING THE GODS AND SPESIALLY ZEUS WHO IS NOW AGAINST HIM..HE IS HELPED BY ATHINA BUT ALL THE ADVENTURES THAT HE FACES AND GETS THROUGH SUCCESFULLY MAKE HIM SMART..EG HE TELLS POLIFIMOS THAT HIS REAL NAME IS NOBODY AND AFTERWARDS HIM BATS UP ALL THE FIONCES AND EARNS BACK HIS WIFE AND KINDOM
2007-12-12 05:29:38 · answer #9 · answered by bohoqueen7 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He tricks the cyclops, and the witch and pretty much the whole play was about him getting through traps using his wit? so wat r u takin aboot?
2007-12-12 05:08:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋