Odysseus Spy

myth:odysseus_spy

Odysseus is the patron of the spy: in the Iliad he steals out by night with Diomedes to catch the Trojan scout Dolon and raid the enemy camp, and in the war's end he slips into Troy itself in a beggar's rags to scout it, and hides in the wooden horse. The man of many wiles — infiltration, disguise, and deception made heroic. — Greek epic