He is most famous for his nostos, or "homecoming", which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long Trojan War. Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and father of Telemachus, Acusilaus, and Telegonus Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility ( polytropos), and is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning ( Greek: μῆτις, translit. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle. Odysseús, Odyseús, IPA: ), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses ( / juː ˈ l ɪ s iː z/ yoo- LISS-eez, UK also / ˈ juː l ɪ s iː z/ YOO-liss-eez Latin: Ulysses, Ulixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Head of Odysseus from a Roman period Hellenistic marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga, Italy
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