thanks for your kind words and your link to our dee-vine Myrrhine's paper!

You bring up a very interesting point- the muddying of Odysseus throughout the following years. W.B. Stanford talks of this in his books, Search (or quest?) for Ulysses and his Ulysses Theme.

I've also read that later writers seized upon the Autolykan elements in his character (his much vaunted wiliness and his raw talent for survival- plus his sense. Remember in the Iliad where he urges the men to eat, and Akhilles is so scornful?) and rendered it into pure scoundrel-dom.

Even the Classic playwrights tarnished his star! But in any case, the books are fascinating, if one can find them.