Odysseus Disguise In Homer's Odyssey

Odysseus is an enigma. His disguises hide him in the battlefield and his lies mask him everywhere else. Such deceits are so frequently seen in Homer`s Odyssey that it is difficult to even know where the truths end and the lies begin, or even if there is an implied truth in a whole conversation. Furthermore, the conversations themselves seem to easily embrace the alluring veils and it is hard to find a single conversation that does not withhold the truth, or is not lies or is not heavily reliant of subtext. Hardly anything is told at face value that can be taken as a concrete idea through which rest of the implications or theories can be extrapolated. Odysseus, a master at this weird cat-and-mouse chase where both sides are trying to either