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Misleading Reference to Mêtis

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This sentence is misleading:

Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and he is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (Ancient Greek: μῆτις, romanized: mêtis, lit. 'cunning intelligence').

What is the reference to mêtis doing here? It is no part of the explanation of why Odysseus was called "Odysseus the Cunning" (i.e.polytropos Odysseus). Notice that whoever wrote the first sentence was using "cunning" as a translation of "polytropos" ("...and he is thus known..."). But whoever wrote the second sentence seems to think that "cunning" translates some form of "mêtis". It does not -- "mêtis" is a noun, "cunning" as applied to Od. is an adjective.

I advise deleting the sentence about mêtis. It is simply out of place here. ~2026-36847-69 (talk) 10:22, 29 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Under Travel literature: Why was mention of Richard Halliburton's The Glorious Adventure (Bobbs-Merrill, 1927) about the famed author retracing Odysseus' wanderings excised?