The strength of tactics needed to actualise wise strategies.

Odysseus wages battle against the suitors. Athena appears as mentor that encourages Odysseus to win. Divine wisdom is espoused by the mentor. This wisdom stays out of the battle but tests Odysseus strength and brawn first. Spears are exchanged as many suitors die. Odysseus men all survive with minor flesh wounds. Here divine wisdom is to be strong and show no weakness. Odysseus spares only the artists who were forced to work for the suitors. Here one sees that the artist is considered better than the tyrants who mistreated even their own people. So the minstrel Phemius and the herald Medo are not harmed as one is an artist of song and the other of verbal words. The herald also represents the people employed by the suitors and those they represent that were not evil and were good enough to survive as paradigms in the new Greece being founded by Odysseus. Heralds also herald in news and that which is now beginning. Leodes the priest begs to be allowed to live but is killed by Odysseus. Leodes represents the corrupt priest that joined the tyranny represented by the suitors, He represents the outmoded religious representative that is replaced by a newer more virtuous religious person as a paradigm shift in Greek theology based on a proper reading of virtue, represented and embodied in Odysseus as the misnomers of people like the suitors who used such religious representatives like Leodes to maintain and gain power, their wealth and their position in society. Once divine wisdom could be employed as strength and the tactics for winning became apparent as the suitors strength buckled under Odysseus and his men the battle ended quickly.
Here the lesson is that it is wise to be strong till the strategies of easy victory become apparent. If one cowers away from battle no strategy for victory can be won, no matter how smart one is. Strategy works if you have the ability to employ the tactics necessary to achieve its end. The strength to employ necessary tactics is needed to achieve any wise plan of strategy.