In The Odyssey, Homer uses Odysseus’s journey to show how one’s journey can change them as a person. This process makes him a stronger person in the long run, both mentally and physically. As stated by (I assume) Athena “Sing in me Muse and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer harried for years on end, after he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy”. (Homer 1204) As shown in this quote Athena thinks highly of Odysseus and his travels, and wouldn’t mind helping him along his way. Odysseus is quite intuitive throughout the Odyssey. Odysseus let his intuition take control when he was faced with the option to pass by Scylla a six headed monster that eats one man per mouth, or Charybdis …show more content…
He has the skill of sailing, he is known as a master mariner. He has the skill of surprise/disguise where he tricks everyone he used to know on the island of Ithaca into thinking he’s just an old beggar. He also has the skill of archery as shown in book twenty-one where he is the only one who can string the bow and shoot the arrow through all twelve ax heads. As shown on page 1255 “Odysseus in one motion strung the bow. Then slid his right hand down the cord and plucked it, so the taut gut vibrating hummed and sang a swallow’s note.” and then “He picked one ready arrow from the table where it lay bare: there rest were waiting still in the quiver for the young man’s turn to come, He nocked it, let it rest across the handgrip and drew the string and grooved part of the arrow, aiming from where he sat on the stool. Now flashed arrow from twanging bow clean as a whistle through every socket ring, and grazed not one, to thud with heavy brazen head beyond” (Homer 1255) Odysseus had many great traits that stood out to me like his sailing abilities, and disguising to look like someone else ability, but the one that stood out to me the most was his archery ability and how he could so gracefully shoot an