This book offers substance to contemporary reflections on manhood. Comradeship, heroism, virtue, wandering, trickery, psychopathy, father-son issues, relations between men and a variety of feminie forms, and the intervention of the Gods. Stanford surveys the range of responses—from Euripides to Kazantzakis—to Ulysses’ ambiguous nature, transforming Homeric studies by focusing on literary and psychological analysis.