The biggest lie taught in Western literature is that Odysseus was a hero.
Imagine being a gentle giant who just wants to live off the grid, raise your sheep, and make artisanal cheese. Then an unemployed Greek veteran breaks into your cave, refuses to leave under the guise of ancient religious hospitality (Xenia), eats all your goat cheese, gets you blacked out on stolen wine, gouges your only eyeball out with a burning log, and steals your livestock.
In any modern jurisdiction, Polyphemus exercised Castle Doctrine on an armed home invader, but because Odysseus controlled the narrative, we spent 2,800 years calling it an epic poem