"The Metamorphoses" by Homer portrays a
different side of Odysseus as a character, which is entirely different from the Odysseus
that readers were acquainted to in "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer. While Odysseus is portrayed as a courageous and intelligent
warrior in "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," Ajax in "The Metamorphoses" is illustrated as a coward and a brilliant schemer in order to fool the people in believing that he is the rightful heir to the title of Achilles as the great warrior of the Achaean/Greek society. This main difference between Ovid and Homer's works is the focus of this paper.