... . Odysseus is willing to bend his morals, to get things done "we are the Greeks with a job to do, and we did it17". In the opening of Homer's the Odyssey, the very first adjective Homer applies to Odysseus is "polytropos18". Literally it means "much-travelled or much-wandering19" but it can be used metaphorically as "turning ... both the physical and emotional death of Philoctetes. "It is by the caves vaulted rock that Philoctetes was initially abandoned in the deathlike sleep of his disease22". The cave also resembles Philocetetes savage mind as there he would relent in his darkness an...

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