/lit/ - Literature

>>8939549
No, it's not even a matter of desperation.

It's an "it's not cheating if you don't get caught" and "if you let the enemy massacre you in your sleep, you deserve it" and "that's what you get for not guarding the camp, you glory-less scrubs" kind of thing.

After sundown, the battles are over, sure, but the war isn't. Cue espionage, sabotage and subterfuge.

The Greeks don't simply praise courage, they praise metis, too. Metis is translated by some English authors as "shrewdness" or "cunning."

Odysseus, that clever bastard, is a master of it, and you see it in the Iliad too.