Odysseus

As Eumæus and Odysseus were resting at the spring, a servant from Odysseus’ house came along.

Part II. Chapter X 1918

Ah, would that I had the youth, as now I have the spirit, and were either the son of noble Odysseus or Odysseus’ very self, 1 straightway then might a stranger sever my head from off my neck, if I went not to the halls of Odysseus, son of Laertes, and made myself the bane of every man among them!

Book XVI Homer 1909

So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: ‘Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken.

Book XXII Homer 1909

For instance, in the Odyssey, while Odysseus is away, Penelope keeps weaving and undoing and reweaving a funeral shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes; she is doing this to postpone a task she does not want, that of giving up on Odysseus and choosing from among her pesky suitors.

Ingrid Hill - An interview with author 2010

Similarly, while Odysseus is presumably the protagonist (if it isn't the "translator"), many different versions of Odysseus, assuming many different roles, are presented in the 46 episodes comprising The Lost Books.

Experimental Fiction 2010

In my previous post Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim, I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE.

A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus 2009

In my previous post Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim, I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

And lets face it, Odysseus is everyone's favourite Trojan character, so the more to read along that tract the better.

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 2007

We may accompany Odysseus from the victory at Troy, over his different stations on his way home, as well as we become more closely acquainted with Telemachus on his different expeditions and with Penelope in her difficult position in Ithaca.

A Single, Homeless, Circling Satellite: Derek Walcott, 1992 Nobel Literature Laureate 2001

‡ In the Aeneid of Virgil, which was written in Latin, Odysseus is called Ulysses.

Ulysses 2002