Nostos

Nostos (Ancient Greek: ) is an epic whose subject matter is designated to be a story about the homecoming or return of a soldier is called a Nostos. The most famous example of one is Homer's The Odyssey which tells the story of Odysseus attempting to return back to his home in Ithaca.Malkin, Irad (1998). The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity, pp. 1-3. University of California Press. 

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Category:Classical Greek literature
Category:Greek mythology