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Odysseus Laërtiadês (Greek: 'Ὀδυσσεὺς Λαερτιάδης', 'son of Laertes'), or simply Odysseus, is a character in Greek mythology, known as Ulysses or Ulixes in Roman mythology. He is the hero of the Odyssey, and a major player in the Iliad, and son of Laertes (or, much later, Sisyphus) and Anticlea.
Odysseus once used the name Noman or Nobody as an alias to fool Polyphemus in The Odyssey.
As a child, Odysseus was wet-nursed by Euryclea. Odysseus was the king of Ithaca, husband of PenelopeVatican, Rome Penelop ("duck") is a character of the Odyssey one of the two great epic poems (the other being the Iliad both are attributed to Homer) of ancient Greek literature. Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca Odysseus (als and father of TelemachusTelemachus (also transliterated as Telemachos or Telemakhos literally, "far-away fighter") is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope. His part in the saga of Odysseus was described by Homer in the epic poems of the Iliad and the Ody, favorite of AthenaThis article is about the goddess Athena. For other uses see Athena (disambiguation). Aegina Athena ( Phoenician Onga also transliterated as Athene the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war associated by the Romans with their Etruscan goddess Minerva, and wiliest of the Greeks involved in the Trojan WarThe Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of Greece, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war figures centrally in Greek mythology and was narrated. Odysseus earns this title by, among other things, masterminding the Trojan HorseThe Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War, though it does not figure in the part of the war narrated in Homer's Iliad''. The Greek siege of Troy had lasted for ten years. The Greeks devised a new ruse a giant hollow wooden horse. It was built.
According to some late sources, most of them purely genealogical, Odysseus had many other children besides Telemachus, the most famous: with CirceGreek mythology This article is about the goddess. Circe is also a chess variant; see Circe chess. Edward Burne-Jones In Greek mythology, Circe or Kirk was a goddess living on the island of Aeaea. Circe's father was Helios, the pre-Olympic titan of the Su, TelegonusIn Greek mythology, Telegonus ("born afar") was the youngest son of Circe and Odysseus. When Telegonus grew up, Circe sent him to find Odysseus, who by this time had finally returned to Ithaca from the Trojan War. On his arrival Telegonus began plundering, ArdeasIn Greek mythology, Ardeas was a son of Odysseus. He was said to have founded Ardea, a city in Latium. Greek mythological people., Nausitoo ); with Calypso or Circe, Nausinous or Nausitoo ; with Calidices, Polipetes . Most of such genealogies aimed to link Odysseus with the foundation of many Italic cities in remote Antiquity.
In Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey, Odysseus refers to himself as Quarrelman, due to the fact that he quarreled with the suitors.
Odysseus was one of the original suitors of Helen. He agreed to help Tyndareus, her father, settle the dispute for her hand in marriage, in return for which Tyndareus supported Odysseus in his quest to marry Penelope. Odysseus and all the other suitors pledged to defend Helen's marriage to the winning suitor, Menelaus.
Odysseus did not want to make good on his pledge to defend Menelaus' marriage. He pretended to be insane, ploughing his fields and sowing salt instead of seeds. Agamemnon (Menelaus' brother), however, sent Palamedes to retrieve Odysseus. Palamedes was very intelligent and placed Telemachus, Odysseus' son, in front of the plough. Odysseus could not kill his son and revealed his sanity, then left for the Trojan War.
On the way to Troy, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake on Chryse. Odysseus advised that he be left behind because the wound was festering and smelled bad. Ten years later, Helenus, under torture, revealed that Philoctetes' arrows (which he received from Heracles) would be necessary to win the war. Odysseus and Neoptolemus went to Lemnos to retrieve Philoctetes.
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