Naming Odysseus

Odysseus is a man of many attributes and names. Listed below are some of the name given to him in the poem. • The name Odysseus means hate, sorrow, anger in Greek • Book 1, line 1 "the man of twists and turns" • Book 1, line 24 "the great Odysseus" • Book 1, lines 78-9, spoken by Zeus "Great Odysseus, who excels all men in wisdom" • Book 1, line 99, spoken by Athena "wise Odysseus" • Book 1, line 254 by Telemachus "the most unlucky mortal ever born" • Book 2, line 194 "mastermind of battle" • Book 2, line 261, spoken by Mentor "that godlike man" • Book 4, line 13, spoken by Athena "that godlike man" • Book 3, line 93 "great-hearted king Odysseus" • Book 3, line 106 "that man was born for pain" • Book 4, line 364 – "that man was born for pain" • Book 3, line 181 "the flexible, wily king" • Book 4, line 121 "in suffering for that man" • Book 4, line 282 "the crafty one kept dodging" • Book 4, line 16 "lionhearted husband" • Book 5, line 234 "man of exploits" • Book 6, line 131, addressing himself "man of misery" • Book 7, line 157 "a man who'd borne so much" • Book 7, line 165 "the man of many struggles" • Book 8, line 3 "raider of cities" • Book 8, line 179 Odysseus says "he's suffered much already" • Book 9, line 1 "great teller of tales" • Book 10, line 366 Circe calls him "man of twists and turns" • Book 10, line 502 Circe calls him "man of action" • Book 10, line 538, Circe calls him "old campaigner" • Book 10 , line 554 , Circe says he is "born for exploits" • Book 11, line 66 by Elpenor "old campaigner" • Book 11, line 102-3, by Tiresias "master of exploits, man of pains" • Book 11, line 230, by Anticlea "my shining Odysseus" • Book 11, line 247, by Anticlea "the unluckiest man alive" • Book 11, line 428 "man of countless exploits" • Book 11, line 458, by Agamemnon "mastermind of war" • Book 11, line 536, by Achilles "man of tactics" • Book 11, line 708 by Heracles "Odysseus famed for exploits" • Book 13, line 101 "bearing a man with the god's own wisdom" • Book 13, line 227 "man of misery" • Book 13, line 285 "that great exile" • Book 13, line 331-2, from Athena "terrible man, foxy, ingenious, never tired of twists and tricks" • Book 13, line 354 "cool tactician" • Book 13, line 429 from Athena "old campaigner" • Book 14, line 219 "the great teller of tales" • Book 14, line 509-10 "Odysseus, raider of cities"