@dgar meanwhile I just want to know if Polites was really in the Odyssey or if he and his name were made up for Epic the musical.

Like I would believe it except JRH played "holy moly" so straight in Circe saga, and if you want to simplify Pol's trusting nature to being *polite* (and trusting others to be) and told me he's only in Epic and that was where his name came from, I would also believe that.