>>>Ulysses lost all his colleagues in the process
Didn’t Odysseus find out that he’d lose all of his crew (and ship) and that he himself MIGHT make it back if he was lucky?
He lied to his crew that Tiresias’ foretold little problems, that it was mostly clear sailing.
This was the modern day version of “TRUST ME”.
Oh, Wiley Odysseus!
lol I think we’ve just found a new name for the big “O” - Odysseus!
Palamedes went to Ithaca to enroll O into the Greek army. O decided to play like a crazy man so he put on torn clothes, started sowing the land with salt using a goat and ox as the plough but Palamedes put baby Telemachus in front of it and O had to stop ploughing thus revealing his sanity.
O was pissed, bided his time, and eventually got Palamedes killed for something he didn’t do. It took a while but O got his own back.
Wiley for sure - there are similarities.
I give Odysseus the benefit of the doubt here. What good would it do to warn them of the terror that was to come (Scylla and Charybdis)? They are travelling the way they must in order to achieve home, warning them, might cause them to cower.
Also, mark the grief with which Odysseus relates his tale to Alcinous and the Phaeacians...He is a broken man by journey’s end...wiliness has given way to wisdom.