Odyssey by Ancient Greek Poet Homer The epic poem Odyssey
focuses on the Greek character Odysseus and his ten year journey
from Troy to Ithaca after the fall of Troy (Trojan war). The
poem covers both the circumstances that befell his family in
Ithaca and his own perilous adventures back from Troy. Whilst in
Odysseus absence at home, his son Telemachus and wife Penelope
have to deal with suitors who move into their home, in an
attempt to take Odysseus place and ask Penelope's hand in
marriage. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon
and continues to be read in Homeric Greek and translated into
modern languages around the world. The original poem was
composed by a rhapsode, and its conversion into written work is
a debatable issue. The Odyssey was composed in 12,110 lines of
dactylic hexameter. The most extraordinary part of the poem is
the modern plot and that the events construction depended as
much upon the women as the warriors. Today Odyssey occupies and
important part of classical literature.