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Odysseus

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The crafty Ithacan homeward hero of the Odyssey. Not Achilles as the wrath twin alone, and not bow-of-odysseus as gear alone.

Also known as Ulysses

Hellenic religion

  • Odysseus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names Odysseus among local hero marks, Ithaca-neighbor fame, and Trojan-return speech in the Greek itinerary. A named Odysseus in that periegesis, not the Odyssey text lemma alone and not aeneas as the Roman return hero.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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Roman religion

  • Odysseus appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid Book 3 seats Odysseus through Achaemenides’ escape from Polyphemus and related Trojan-war memory. Named Ithacan in that Roman voyage telling, not Odyssey as a second source id.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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