Homer's Odyssey

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Homer's Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer that recounts the long, perilous journey of the hero Odysseus as he attempts to return home from the Trojan War.

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instanceOf ancient Greek literature
epic poem
poem
author Homer
centralTheme fate and the gods
heroism
hospitality (xenia)
identity and disguise
loyalty
nostos (homecoming)
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
featuresCharacter Alcinous
Antinous
Athena
Calypso
Circe
Eumaeus
Eurycleia
Eurymachus
Nausicaa
Polyphemus
Zeus
the Sirens
the suitors of Penelope
genre epic
hasEpisode Calypso's island episode
Circe's island episode
Scylla and Charybdis episode
the Cyclops episode
the Sirens episode
the contest of the bow in Ithaca
influenced Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
James Joyce's Ulysses
Homer's Odyssey self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nikos Kazantzakis's The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

Virgil's Aeneid
Western epic tradition
language Ancient Greek
literaryForm oral-formulaic poetry
literaryPeriod Greek Antiquity
surface form: Archaic Greece
mainAntagonist Poseidon
mainCharacter Odysseus
Penelope
Telemachus
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient
narrativeTechnique in medias res
partOf Homer's Odyssey self-linksurface differs
surface form: Homeric epics
plotSummary Odysseus attempts to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War and faces numerous trials and adventures.
relatedWork Homer's Iliad
setting Ithaca, New York, United States
surface form: Ithaca

Troy (aftermath)
post–Trojan War Mediterranean
structure 24 books
timeOfComposition circa 8th century BCE
verseForm dactylic hexameter

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Laertes appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Nostoi (Returns) precedes Homer's Odyssey
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this entity surface form: Odyssey
Nostoi (Returns) relatedWork Homer's Odyssey
subject surface form: Nostoi
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Lotus-Eaters appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Lotus-Eaters associatedWithWork Homer's Odyssey
Laestrygonians appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
Laestrygonians firstAttestedIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Laestrygonians appearsInBook Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 10
Shades in the Underworld appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Arete appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Arete textualSource Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 6
Arete textualSource Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 7
Arete textualSource Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 11
Arete textualSource Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 13
Scheria locatedInWork Homer's Odyssey
Scheria appearsInBook Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 6
Scheria appearsInBook Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 7
Scheria appearsInBook Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 8
Scheria appearsInBook Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 13
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subject surface form: Arete
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queen of the Phaeacians sourceText Homer's Odyssey
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queen of the Phaeacians sourceText Homer's Odyssey
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Greek mythology hasSource Homer's Odyssey
Phaeacians describedIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Homer’s Odyssey
Underworld mythologicalText Homer's Odyssey
River Styx mentionedInWork Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: The Odyssey
Homeric question concernsWork Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Telegony followsWork Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Palace of Odysseus in Ithaca appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Nestor appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Heroic Age sourceFor Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
bow of Odysseus appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
bow of Odysseus narratedIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Book 21 of the Odyssey
slaughter of the suitors partOf Homer's Odyssey
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this entity surface form: Odyssey
slaughter of the suitors depictedIn Homer's Odyssey
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this entity surface form: Homer’s Odyssey
slaughter of the suitors occursInBook Homer's Odyssey
subject surface form: Slaughter of the Suitors
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 22
the twelve maids relatedWork Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: The Odyssey
Menelaus mentionedIn Homer's Odyssey
bard Demodocus describedByWork Homer's Odyssey
subject surface form: Demodocus
bard Demodocus appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
subject surface form: Demodocus
this entity surface form: Odyssey, Book 8
Polybus mentionedIn Homer's Odyssey
Polybus literarySource Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey by Homer
thunderbolt of Zeus appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Homer’s Odyssey
Clytoneus appearsIn Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Clytoneus mentionedInBook Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey Book 8
Anticlea associatedWithWork Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Odyssey
Anticlea sourceText Homer's Odyssey
this entity surface form: Homer, Odyssey