And so it'd be one thing to simply have a third person story of the Odyssey, but actually at a certain point it becomes his telling us about his adventure, which in a certain sense means he is reconciling himself to his own story through his self-knowledge.

Homer has cleared this out in the first ten verses of the Odyssey, saying, finishing the introduction, the proemion in the Odyssey, «Ton amothen iethea digater Dios ipecimin telas» any way you want, in any order you like.

Tell us what is happening with this man in any way you want.

So it's the muse, according to Homer, that is telling everything in the way that she wants.

It's the voice of the muse in Homer's poetry.

So we should not forget that Odysseus is polytropos, is a man of many different ways.

He's very smart, but he's also a human being.

Why is it that you think this matters so much that you've devoted a very considerable amount of your time and talent and attention to it?