Odysseus tries to avoid going to war by feigning madness. When the Greek emissaries come to summon him to join the effort to retrieve Helen, he pretends to be insane by plowing his fields with salt instead of seed. To further prove his madness, he begins to sow the fields with the salt, which would obviously result in nothing growing.
However, the cleverness of Odysseus does not go unnoticed. Palamedes, one of the emissaries, throws Odysseus's