AI: Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid Compared: Trojan War (Part II, The Odyssey: “The Long Journey Home”)
“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.” – Narrator
“My name is Nobody; my father and mother call me Nobody.” – Odysseus’s famous, clever lie to the Cyclops Polyphemus, which he uses to escape the cave.
“By day I’d weave at my great and growing web— by night, by the light of torches set beside me, I would unweave it. Three whole years I deceived them, seduced them with this scheme.” – Penelope