Greek mythology
Odysseus
Hero of return, endurance, and strategic deceit
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Children
- Telemachus
- Group
- Heroes · Trickster · King
- Appears in
- Fall of Troy · The Odyssey · Ajax: The Arms of Achilles · Judgment of Paris
- Places
- Troy · Ithaca · Aeaea · Cave of Polyphemus · Strait of Messina
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Odysseus is the cunning king of Ithaca, the mind behind the Wooden Horse that brings Troy to ruin. His ten-year voyage home pits his wits against the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, and the monsters of the sea, as the wrath of Poseidon strips him of ship and crew. Enduring and endlessly resourceful, he returns at last in disguise to reclaim his wife Penelope and his throne.
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Fall of Troy
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- Who is Odysseus?
- Odysseus is the cunning king of Ithaca, the mind behind the Wooden Horse that brings Troy to ruin. His ten-year voyage home pits his wits against the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, and the monsters of the sea, as the wrath of Poseidon strips him of ship and crew.
- Which mythology does Odysseus belong to?
- Odysseus belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Odysseus appear in?
- Odysseus appears in Fall of Troy, The Odyssey, Ajax: The Arms of Achilles, Judgment of Paris, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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