I'll be writing a full-length piece on this for Words, but I'd like to hear what people think about it.

David Copperfield begins with a telling sentence: "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

Do the pages of The Odyssey show Odysseus to be the hero of his own life? Is he the hero of his own story?

Of course in a literal sense he is. In the mathematical sense of "No Odysseus = No Odyssey," he is certainly the main character and focal point.

But is he really "the hero" in the sense that we usually use the word? Is he admirable? Do we like him?