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b'Odysseus as a different kind of hero from Achilleus: the trickster is not "character isolated by a deed," but someone who\'s character is elusive.\\xa0 How can he be a hero in epic circumstances?\\xa0 Homer and Shakespeare take on this problem respectively in Odysseus and Hamlet.\\xa0 The \\u039f\\u03c5\\u03c4\\u03b9s / Odysseus pun -- as a trickster he is no man, the reverse of Achilleus.\\xa0 His meeting with Aias in hell, and Aias\'s silence; Odysseus\'s meeting with his mother, who sends him home knowing what he knows about the dead, to his wife: the three phantom embraces, recollecting Achilleus\'s dream of the dead Patroklos.'