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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Legendary Greek king of Ithaca For other uses, see Odysseus (disambiguation). See also: Ulysses Fictional character Odysseus Head of Odysseus from a Roman period Hellenistic marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga, Italy In ...
Odysseus meets his father Laertes on his return to Ithaca (Theodoor van Thulden, 1600). In Greek mythology, Laertes (/ l eɪ ˈ ɜːr t iː z /; Ancient Greek: Λαέρτης, romanized: Laértēs Greek pronunciation: [laː.ér.tɛːs]; also spelled Laërtes) was the king of the Cephallenians, an ethnic group who lived both on the Ionian Islands and on the mainland. [1]
Odysseas Elytis (Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης [oðiˈseas eˈlitis], pen name of Odysseas Alepoudellis, Greek: Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης; 2 November 1911 – 18 March 1996) was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world.
Penelope was considered the ideal female; Homer depicted her as the ideal female based on her commitment, modesty, purity, and respect during her marriage to Odysseus. During his ten-year voyage, he loses all of his comrades and ships and makes his way home to Ithaca disguised as a beggar. Both of these works were based on ancient legends.
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Steven Farron agrees that the incongruence between Hector's achievements and reputation is a deliberate choice by the author but rejects the idea that it reflects a pro-Greek bias. Farron states: The contradictions between Hector's domestic strengths and military weaknesses and between his reputation and achievements form a coherent, tragic ...
Matthew Tenedorio, 25, had a superpower: He could make people laugh, one of his cousins said. Tenedorio leaves behind two loving older brothers, his parents and many devastated cousins, said Zach ...
In 2024, Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ: LUNR) stunned the world with a mostly successful landing on of its IM-1 Odysseus lander on the moon. NASA has rewarded Intuitive with a total of three more ...