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A-Z: General definitions: Odysseus
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King of Ithaca, an island in the Ionian Sea, and famous for his cunning. Odysseus spent ten years travelling before he finally succeeded in reaching his home, the island of Ithaca. Here his wife Penelope, had been warding off suitors for her hand by claiming that she was weaving a shroud for Odysseus' father and would not remarry until it was finished. However, each night she unravelled the previous day's work. On his return Odysseus took his revenge on the suitors but could not settle at home for long.
Related Topics
Penelope; Trojan War; Wooden Horse; Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus; Odysseus and Circe; Odysseus and the Sirens; Odysseus and Scylla and Charybdis
King of Ithaca, an island in the Ionian Sea, and famous for his cunning; the story of his ten year journey home after the Trojan War is the subject of Homer's Odyssey. (Roman name Ulysses.)
Wife of Odysseus.
Wife of Odysseus.
A long struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, recorded in Greek mythology but almost certainly based on real events.
A supposed offering by the Greeks to Athena which they filled with armed men; it was unsuspectingly brought by the Trojans into their city, an act of folly which resulted in their downfall.
Odysseus escapes and blinds Polyphemus.
Odysseus defeats the wiles of Circe.
Odysseus survives despite the sirens' deadly song.
Odysseus loses six companions to the monster Scylla.
