The Odyssey: An epic poem that chronicles the adventures of Odysseus also known as Ulysses on his journey back to his homeland Ithaca from the ... He finally returns home many years later.

The Odyssey is an epic poem that chronicles the adventures of Odysseus also known as Ulysses on his journey back to his homeland Ithaca from the moment the Trojan War ends narrated in the Iliad until the moment when He finally returns home many years later. The authorship of this work written in ancient Greek is attributed to Homer a poet who lived in the region of Ionia present-day Turkey during the eighth century B. C. As we know the Odyssey as well as the Iliad were part of the ancient oral tradition and were sung from town to town by the rapsodas until in the 6th century B. C. Pisístrado governor of Athens decided to compile the Homeric poems at which point they are fixed in the written word. The oldest known version of the Odyssey is that of Aristarchus of Samothrace dating from the second century B. C.etiquettes: penelope telemachus aeneid trojan war homer aeneas latin iliad hermes patroclus achilles circe laërtes virgil odyssey ulysses agamemnon thetis anticlea autolycus clytemnestra menelaus polyphemus greek language aeolus epic cycle danaans achaea aeschylus sophocles nestor euripides hecuba neoptolemus heracles philoctetes palladium trojan horse ajax the great scylla cyclops calypso greeks epithet trojan war iliad odyssey legend ionia odysseus turkey classical antiquity literary language ionic greek contest of homer and hesiod herodotus renaissance troy virgil agamemnon achilles ithaca