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Head of Odysseus wearing pileus depicted on a 3rd-century BC coin from Ithaca
Odysseus was a person in the Greek mythology. He was the king of the island Ithaca, and was married to Penelope. Odysseus and Penelope had a son called Telemachos. Odysseus is a major character in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Odysseus fought in the Trojan War, and invented the Trojan Horse, which helped the Greeks win the war. After the war, his adventurous journey home took the time of 10 years. The story of that journey is told in the Odyssey.
The Latin name for Odysseus is Ulysses.
Images for kids
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Odysseus and the Sirens, Ulixes mosaic at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, 2nd century AD
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Roman mosaic depicting Odysseus, from La Olmeda, Pedrosa de la Vega, Spain, late 4th–5th centuries AD
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Odysseus and Polyphemus (1896) by Arnold Böcklin: Odysseus and his crew escape the cyclops Polyphemus
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Odysseus departs from the Land of the Phaeacians. Painting by Claude Lorrain
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The bay of Palaiokastritsa in Corfu as seen from Bella vista of Lakones. Corfu is considered to be the mythical island of the Phaeacians. The bay of Palaiokastritsa is considered to be the place where Odysseus disembarked and met Nausicaa for the first time. The rock in the sea visible near the horizon at the top centre-left of the picture is considered by the locals to be the mythical petrified ship of Odysseus. The side of the rock toward the mainland is curved in such a way as to resemble the extended sail of a trireme