Odysseus Leadership Qualities

The Odyssey tells the exciting tale of Odysseus and his travels back home after the Trojan War. Odysseus and his men journey back home and on the way they meet a few monsters and manage to anger Poseidon. In the story, Odysseus demonstrates his leadership skills by leading his men through all their struggles. He was very clever, he developed plans that saved most of his crew and eventually got him home. When he arrived home, he was reunited with his son. He and his son fought off the suitors who had been after his wife while he was gone. Although this story points towards a pagan worldview, elements of the tale can point towards God. Over the course of the Odyssey, Odysseus was a loving father, a determined leader, and a good husband.

Odysseus was a loving father. He left Telemachus when he was just a toddler. His years spent apart from his son made no difference in the love he had for him. Their reunion was a joyous occasion where their love for one another was real, despite the time spent apart. “With this he sat down, and Telemachus flung

When the Polyphemus the Cyclops trapped him and his men in a cave, he hatched a clever plan. He got the monster drunk and stabbed him in the eye. He and his men then grabbed on to the fleece of the Cyclops’s sheep. When morning came, Polyphemus let his sheep out and the men, who were tied under the sheep, escaped. Even though Odysseus had great leadership skills, his men were not easy to lead. They were always making stupid decisions such as when they ate the sacred cattle of the god, Helios. “My men were thrown in the water, and bobbing like sea crows they were washed away on the running waves all around the black ship, and the god took away their homecoming.” The men that Odysseus led are like God and us. We are constantly messing up and disobeying and yet he draws us back to him and keeps guiding us. "I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,” (John