After having been separated for 20 years, the reunion of father and son and Odysseus’ reveal that he is Telemachos’ real father is long awaited. It is within Odysseus’ epithet, repetition of words, and delivery, that his feelings of guilt and culpability are revealed, along with a new identity, diverging from divine to a more mortal nature. After shedding his disguise, Odysseus steps into a new epithet, as for the first time since returning to Ithika he is truly himself in the eyes of his son. The epithet prefacing his reveal,“The noble and enduring man,” (XV1.219) highlights Odysseus’ mortality, and lowers him from a deific appearance, as he diverges from other epithets such as ‘god like Odysseus’ in the face of his guilt and remorse. Similarly,
