Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Polites.
On screen
L'Odissea
Franco Rossi
Rossi's Odyssey keeps Odysseus' comrades on Circe's isle — Polites among the scouts who enter the witch's hall before the crew is penned as swine.
The Odyssey
Andrei Konchalovsky
Konchalovsky's miniseries stages the Circe landing where Homer's Polites, dearest and most thoughtful of the companions, leads the men to the goddess's door.
In play
Odyssey
Homer
Book 10: Polites, 'dearest to me of my companions and most trusty,' calls the crew to Circe's house — the scout whose voice opens the enchantment.
Polites
Companion of Odysseus — carefully distinct from Polites son of Priam, the Trojan prince Neoptolemus slays.
Circe
The goddess whose hall Polites enters — the witch who drugs the crew and is later mastered by Odysseus' moly.