In Homer’s The Odyssey numerous characters demonstrate multiple archetypes throughout the narrative, including Odysseus who acts as both a hero and a trickster. Odysseus’s heroic qualities can be seen when he and his crew reach the island of the Cyclopes. Here he proclaims, “...I’ll make the crossing / in my own ship, with my own company, / and find out what the mainland natives are” (Odyssey 9.71-73). He acts on behalf of his crew to help them survive along their journey. Achieving great deeds for a group, tribe, or civilization is one of the main characteristics of a hero. Later on in Book Nine Odysseus’s trickster aspect is shown when he gets the Cyclops, Polyphemus, drunk. He then tells him, “My name is Nohbdy: mother, father, and friends,