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Horkheimer and Adorno claimed that Odysseus was the prototypical Western subject (instrumental reason, bourgeois values, etc.). Did the ancient Greeks interpret Odysseus in any way which resembled that manner?

by /u/Chernograd in /r/AskHistorians

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