Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ancient vase inscriptions from Magna Graecia bear the variant name Oulixes, while other pottery shards display Oliseus or Olyteus. Latin sources later adopted the name Ulixes, which some scholars suggest may have originally been two separate figures combined into one complex personality.
Autolycus decided to give him a name commemorative of his own experience in life because he had been angered with many men and women. He declared that since he has been angered with many men and women, the boy shall be named Odysseus to reflect this sardonic mood rather than divine prophecy.
Odysseus veered the plow away from his son thus exposing his stratagem after hooking a donkey and an ox to his plow because they have different stride lengths hindering efficiency. He sowed his fields with salt to feign lunacy and avoid the prophecy of a long-delayed return home before revealing his true intentions.
Polyphemus ate several men after capturing Odysseus and his crew while visiting his island. Odysseus told Polyphemus his name was Outis meaning Nobody when they had a discussion and later blinded him by igniting a wooden stake with remaining wine while he slept.
Romans possessed rigid sense of honour unlike Greeks who admired cunning qualities so Virgil wrote the Aeneid portraying Ulixes as cruel or deceitful. His attempts to avoid sacred oath offended Roman notions of duty and honor regarding the immolation of Iphigenia telling Clytemnestra girl was wed to Achilles.
Researchers identified sanctuary at Agios Athanasios site in northern Ithaca in year 2025. Two late Hellenistic inscriptions bore names OΔYCCEOC and OΔYCCEI aligning with earlier finds and over one hundred coins highlight site religious role during third century BCE to second century CE.