Odysseus | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Odysseus


00:00:47 1 Name, etymology and epithets
00:03:29 2 Genealogy
00:04:23 3 Before the Trojan War
00:06:18 4 During the Trojan War
00:06:27 4.1 The iIliad/i
00:08:53 4.2 Other stories from the Trojan War
00:12:42 4.3 "Cruel, deceitful Ulixes" of the Romans
00:14:07 5 Journey home to Ithaca
00:20:20 6 Other stories
00:20:34 6.1 Classical
00:23:29 6.2 Middle Ages and Renaissance
00:24:53 6.3 Modern literature
00:27:56 6.4 Television and film
00:29:44 6.5 Music
00:30:11 6.6 Comparative mythology
00:30:27 6.6.1 Nala
00:30:51 6.6.2 Aeneas
00:31:22 7 Namesakes
00:31:40 8 See also



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Odysseus (; Greek: Ὀδυσσεύς, Ὀδυσεύς,  Ὀdysseús [odysse͜ús]), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (US: , UK: ; Latin: Ulyssēs, Ulixēs), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle.
Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus and Acusilaus. Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (Greek: μῆτις or mētis, "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for his nostos or “homecoming”, which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long Trojan War.