FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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the embodiment of curiosity and desire for knowledge
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executor of deeds
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the epic poetry, “The Odyssey, ” by Homer, Odysseus exhibits his arrogance, foolishness, and his lack of leadership in which it leads to him going home by himself.
Detailed explanation-2: -Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and father of Telemachus and Acusilaus, Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (Greek: , translit. mêtis, lit. “cunning intelligence").
Detailed explanation-3: -After the fall of Troy, Odysseus set sail for Ithaca, but his voyage took ten long years because he incurred the anger of the sea god Poseidon*.
Detailed explanation-4: -Polites was a member of Odysseus’s crew. Odysseus refers to him as his dearest friend, though he is only mentioned twice, once as part of Eurylochus’s scouting group on Circe’s island (he is one of the first to enter Circe’s palace) and then when, after a year, he convinces Odysseus to leave Circe.