How Is The Greek Idea Of A Sound Mind And Body Essential For The Successful Characters Of The Odyssey?

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he breaks down into tears. Antinoos says “Telemachos you
are a boaster, and you don't know how to keep your temper!”{page 24}. Telemachos
made an attempt to express his valid point of view, and does so, but fails to
convince the council. He breaks down in tears, showing how immature he really is.
He does not have a sound mind. The council basked in this weakness and was even
more critical of him at that point. Later on, he is told of how “(Telemachos),
you speak like a man of sense, you are older than your years, your father is
just the same, you get it from him.”{page 48} As his adventure progresses he
grows to be a more complete man, to eventually fighting along side his father
against the “hangers-on”{page 17} that are “tormenting Penelope”{page 16}, to
rid them from his home once and for all.
Odysseus was triumphant in The Odyssey for the reason that he was a man
who was astute and very clever, at the same time strong and robust. Odysseus,
the man who is never at a loss, ...

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