Outis

Modern artists, writers, and others in public life have adopted the use of this pseudonym in order to hide their identity and it has been used for fictional characters as well.

The Homeric hero Odysseus used the pseudonym "Outis" when he was fighting the Cyclops Polyphemus and the monster demanded his name.

After Odysseus had put out the monster's eye, Polyphemus shouted in pain to the other Cyclopes of the island.

"Then in line 369: So I spoke, and from a ruthless heart he straightway answered: "Nobody I eat up last, after his comrades; all the rest first; and that shall be the stranger's gift for you.

But make your prayer to your father, lord Poseidon".In line 455: "Are you sorry because that wicked Nobody brought your master down with drink and blinded him?