Age of Odysseus

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The Age of Odysseus refers to the legendary heroic era in Greek mythology centered on Odysseus’s lifetime and exploits, especially those surrounding the Trojan War and its aftermath.

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instanceOf cultural period
mythological era
associatedWithEvent Fall of Troy NERFINISHED
Odysseus’s nostos
Sack of Troy NERFINISHED
Suitors of Penelope NERFINISHED
Trojan War NERFINISHED
associatedWithPlace Aegean Sea NERFINISHED
Ithaca NERFINISHED
Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED
Troy NERFINISHED
basedOn Greek mythology
culturallyInfluenced Roman literature
Western epic tradition
ancient Greek literature
later European literature
documentedIn Epic Cycle NERFINISHED
Homer’s Iliad NERFINISHED
Homer’s Odyssey NERFINISHED
later Greek tragedy
post-Homeric epics
featuresCharacter Achilles NERFINISHED
Agamemnon NERFINISHED
Ajax the Greater NERFINISHED
Ajax the Lesser NERFINISHED
Antinous NERFINISHED
Athena NERFINISHED
Calypso NERFINISHED
Circe NERFINISHED
Eurylochus NERFINISHED
Eurymachus NERFINISHED
Helen of Troy NERFINISHED
Menelaus NERFINISHED
Nausicaa NERFINISHED
Nestor NERFINISHED
Palamedes NERFINISHED
Penelope NERFINISHED
Polyphemus NERFINISHED
Poseidon NERFINISHED
Telemachus NERFINISHED
hasKeyTheme cunning
divine intervention
fate
heroism
hospitality
marital fidelity
nostos
hasMainFigure Odysseus NERFINISHED
hasMotif encounters with monsters
heroic journey
temptation by goddesses
testing of loyalty
trickster hero
hasRealityStatus mythic, not historical
hasStatus legendary
namedAfter Odysseus NERFINISHED
overlapsWith Age of Heroes NERFINISHED
partOf Heroic Age of Greek mythology NERFINISHED
timePositionRelativeTo before Archaic Greece
pre-classical Greece

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Polybus mythologicalEra Age of Odysseus