What is Odyssey?
{{otheruses}} {{redirect|Homer's Odyssey|episode of ''The Simpsons''|Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons)}} [[File:Beginning Odyssey.svg|thumb|250px|The beginning of the ''Odyssey'']] [[File:Schmied illustration Odyssée-CompBibliophilesAutoClubFrance-1932vol3p169.png|thumb|Schmied illustration Odyssée-CompBibliophilesAutoClubFrance-1932vol3p169]] The '''''Odyssey''''' is a major [[Ancient Greek language|Ancient Greek]] [[epic poetry|epic poem]]. It was written by [[Homer]], as a [[sequel]] to the ''[[Iliad]]''. In its origin it was an [[oral history|oral]] [[epic poem]] from [[Mycenaean]] [[Greece]], about the 11th century BC. The hero of the poem is Odysseus, or ''Ulysses'' as he is called in [[Latin]]; the poem is [[myth]]ological, not historical. The poem is the story about [[Odysseus]]'s ten-year-long voyage home to [[Ithaca]] after the [[Trojan War]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=James|last1=Renshaw|first2=Sally|last2=Knights|first3=Paul|last3=Buckley|title=OCR Classical Civilisation Reader for GCSE|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2009|isbn=9780198325970|page=50}}</ref> The Trojan War is the subject of the ''[[Iliad]]''. At the same time, his wife [[Penelope]] has to fight off a lot of men who want to marry her; and his son [[Telemachos]] searches for him. Along the way, Odysseus and his men have to fight monsters and many other dangers. The main events (places he goes, creatures and people he meets) of Odysseus' journey are: * the [[Kikones]] * the '''[[Lotophagi|Lotus Eaters]]''' * the [[Cyclops]] '''[[Polyphemus]]''' * '''[[Aeolus]]''', King of the [[wind]]s * the '''[[Laistrygones]]''' * the [[wizard|sorceress]] '''[[Circe]]''' * the '''[[Greek underworld|Underworld]]''' * the '''[[Siren]]s''' * the sea monsters '''[[Scylla]] and [[Charybdis]]''' * '''[[Helios]]' [[cattle]]''' * the [[nymph]] '''[[Calypso]]''' * the '''[[Phaeacians]]''' == Story == It is the story of the return of Ulysses after the Trojan War (Iliad) === The Cyclops === [[File:Jakob Jordaens 009.jpg|thumb|upright|Odysseus in Polyphemus's