Odysseus MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Odysseus? Odysseus is an ENTP personality type in MBTI, 7w8 - sp/so - 783 in Enneagram, SCOEI in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.
just thought it would be relevant: The Enneagram styles are very old. Homer (ca. 750 b.c.e. ) knew the nine basic themes essentially as they are today. Odysseus travels through each of the Enneagram domains in exact reverse numerical order. Here is his itinerary: 2. Calypso, the Two nymph who offers Odysseus every worldly good and even immortality if he will but stay with her. 1. The Phaeacians, perfect Martha Stewart One hosts, where honor, respect, fair play, and courtliness count most, along with beautifully prepared meals. 9. The Land of the Lotus Eaters, dreamy, forgetful Nines. 8. The Cyclops, powerful, vengeful giant Eights; "Each one dwells in his own mountain cave, dealing out rough justice to wife and child, indifferent to what others do."1 7. Aeolia, a Seven island that floats whimsically on the sea, relocat- ing with the wind, where the Seven residents feast and party. 6. The paranoid Laestrygonians, Sixes who attack Odysseus with- out provocation. 5. The solitary Circe, the cunning Five sorceress. 4. The visit to Hades, the psychic underworld. The Sirens, Fours who bewitch passing mariners to tragedy with melodious song. 3. Scylla and Charybdis, a monster and a whirlpool, a rock and a hard place, where skillful sailing full speed ahead is the only way through. The conversion of the precious golden Cattle of the Sun. >The nine ways of knowing (1999)
Biography
Odysseus was the king of Ithaca, as well as one of the heroes of the Trojan war and the ten-year siege of Troy. During the Trojan War, Odysseus added to his reputation of craftiness and cunning with various strategems. He is credited with planning the ruse that finally ended the war: building the wooden horse and hiding soldiers inside. When the Trojans brought the gift into their city, the soldiers leapt out of the horse and opened the city gates, allowing the Greek armies to sack the city. On his way home from Troy after the war, Odysseus was blown off course and landed on an island of the lesser cyclops Polyphemus. To escape from the human-eating Polyphemus, Odysseus had to blind the giant. As Polyphemus was Poseidon's child, this act brought about Poseidon's curse and forced Odysseus to wander at sea for 10 years, never quite able to return home. During this time, he had the many great adventures which were the basis of Homer's Odyssey. Some of the dangers Odysseus overcame were: the land of the lotus eaters, Circe the sorceress, a journey to Hades, the Sirens, stealing the cattle of the sun-titan Hyperion, sailing between the monsters Scylla and Charybdis, and enchantment by the nymph Calypso. When he finally returned home, he found his poor wife besieged by suitors who assumed that he was dead. He answered this insult in a typically direct fashion by slaying all the suitors. Odysseus, while below average height, is an extremely muscular man. He is a renowned bowman and wields a bow which has such a powerful pull that only he can string it. Though possessing great strength, Odysseus prefers to use his wit and cunning to extricate himself from sticky situations, as he has found intelligence more universally useful than strength.
