Odysseus

In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey.

• [Odysseus was] tough, crafty, cheerful, of medium height, eloquent, and wise.
  • In the account of Dares the Phrygian Dares Phrygius, History of the Fall of Troy 13 Archived 7 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine

• [He was] shorter in truth by a head than Atreus’ son Agamemnon, / but broader, it would seem, in the chest and across the shoulders /... / Truly, to some deep-fleeced ram would I liken him / who makes his way through the great mass of the shining sheep-flocks.
  • In Book III of Homer's Iliad Priam. Homer; Lattimore, Richmond; Martin, Richard P. (2011). The Iliad of Homer. Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press. pp. Book III Lines 192-199. ISBN 978-0-226-47048-1. 

• In parts of their careers, Arjuna and Odysseus show similarities so numerous and detailed that they must be cognate figures, sharing an origin in the proto-hero of an oral proto-narrative.
  • Nicholas Allen, 1998, quoted in: Elst K. in Udayanath Sahoo (editor), Shobha Rani Dash (editor) - Great Indian Epics, International Perspectives-Routledge (2021) 55-6