The trouble with Odysseus, the Ancient Greek mythological hero and King of Ithaca, was that his deceptions, while good in war, meant few trusted him in peace.
In Greek mythology, the contest between raw strength (bie) and cunning (metis) represented two sides of the same coin in the prosecution of war.
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