................................................................................................................................... 2 Abbreviations ......................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 5 Scope and Methodology .................................................................................................... 7 Literature Review .............................................................................................................. 10 1. Antisthenes’ Ajax and Odysseus and Their Context ............................................ 18 Antisthenes’ Ajax and Odysseus .................................................................................... 19 Antisthenes and Versatility in Rhetoric: Testimonia t.187 .......................................... 26 Odysseus in Alcidamas and Gorgias ............................................................................. 32 2. Λόγοι and ἔργα in Antisthenes and Thucydides: Odysseus as an Athenian Prototype. ............................................................................................................................... 47 Pericles’ Epitaphios: λόγοι and ἔργα............................................................................. 56 Intelligence and Deliberation in the Mytilene Debate ................................................. 68 Thucydides’ Character Judgements: Themistocles, Hermocrates, and Brasidas. ... 78 3. Themistocles: An Herodotean Odysseus? ............................................................... 96 Themistocles in Herodotus: The Salvation of Hellas ................................................. 100 Themistocles at Salamis: Strategy, Persuasion and Cunning ................................... 119 The Sicinnus Trick ........................................................................................................... 129 Themistocles and Self Interest: Euboea and Andros ................................................. 136 Themistocles and Antisthenes’ Ajax and Odysseus .................................................. 143 4. Odysseus in Drama 1................................................................................................. 156 Hostility to the Character of Odysseus ........................................................................ 158 Depictions of the Hoplôn Krisis: Fragmentary Aeschylus ....................................... 171 Pitying the Enemy: Odysseus in Sophocles’ Ajax ...................................................... 178 Working for the Greater Good: Odysseus and Philoctetes ....................................... 190 5. Odysseus in Drama 2................................................................................................. 208