Odysseus

The Hero of Ithaca

Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece

By Mary E. Burt and Zenaide A. Ragozin

"GREEK CLASSICS"

Odysseus, also known by the Latin name Ulysses, was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle.

Husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laertes and Anticlea, Odysseus is renowned for his brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and is hence known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning...