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    Jack Willette Eng.

    9 Honors 1/16/13 Hartwig Odysseus Essay

    Leader: noun, one that leads or guides; one who has influence or power. Is the king of Ithaca an effective leader or just an arrogant ignoramus? The Odyssey, by Homer, details Odysseus long and perilous journey back to Ithaca, just to find men bidding for his wife. Against all odds, he is able to win his wife and his homeland of Ithaca back from the Proci. He is capable of doing this because of his intelligence and his ability to think expeditiously, leading his men out of precarious quandaries. Secondly, Odysseus is valiant and overcomes immense encumbrances to achieve his objectives. Lastly, Odysseus does not abandon his aspirations, even after ubiquitous calamitous impediments and is obstinate to return to his kingdom, back to his wife and son. It is because of these traits that Odysseus is an exuberant leader of his men. In Homers The Odyssey, Odysseus demonstrates that he is conspicuously sagacious as often as this essay is pleonastic. Homer describes this multiple times, but in particular when Odysseus and his crew are trapped inside the Cyclops Polyphemus domicile with no discernible means of escape. Odysseus benumbs Polyphemus with wine and says, My name is Nohbdy; mother, father and friends / everyone calls me Nohbdy (Homer 315-316). Because of the wine, the Cyclops becomes sedated and languished and allows Odysseus and his aggregation of men to drive a stake into the Cyclops eye. The Cyclops vociferates for help, but because Nohbdy attacked him, no one comes to his aid. In the forenoon, Odysseus lashes everybody to the undersides of Polyphemus sheep, and when the Cyclops opens the aperture to his cavern, the sheep pass by without heed, thus schlepping

    the assemblage to freedom. This passage demonstrates Odysseus immense acumen and perspicacious nature, and why he is a transcendent leader. Another reason Odysseus is a meritorious leader is that he is drastically courageous and instills aplomb in his crew. This is established, most notably, when Odysseus must quench feelings of consternation within his men before the voyage through the Strait of Messina, between Scylla-a six-headed, man-masticating monster-and Charybdis-a ship-pulverizing whirlpool of dissolution. Homer explicates this with a fervent speech, Friends, have we never been in danger before this? / More fearsome, it is now, than when the Cyclops / penned us in his cave? What power he had! / Did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits / to find a way out for us? (766-770). Odysseus and his men eventually transversed the strait, losing only six crewmembers to Scylla. Odysseus in The Odyssey has illimitable intrepidity and the endowment of ascendency and credence, and thus is a superlative leader. Lastly, Odysseus does not abandon his crusade to return back to his island of Ithaca. For twenty years, Odysseus floats adrift, and not once does he envision himself capitulating to the temptations of the Lotus-Eaters psychotic drugs or to Circes amour. In The Odyssey, after the Phaeacians ferry Odysseus back to Ithaca, Homer records, Twenty years gone, and I am back again / on my own island (1051-1052). It is because of Odysseus brobdingnagian persistence and resolve that he is able to recover from his perdition and journey back to Ithaca, back to his wife and son. It is because Odysseus is intelligent and dexterous, audacious and bold, obstinate and intransigent he is indubitably the hellacious leader that Homers The Odyssey portrays him as.

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