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Get all the key plot points of Homer's The Odyssey on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes. Shop stocking stuffers · Explore top gifts. Years after the end of the Trojan War, the Greek hero Odysseus still hasn't come home to Ithaca. Most people figure he's dead. But we don't: Homer lets us know right away that Odysseus is .The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic poem by Homer that tells the story of Odysseus’s ten-year struggle to return home to Ithaca after the end of the Trojan War. In Odysseus’s absence, his wife. Inspired by the goddess Athena, Telemachus undertakes a sea voyage to visit two kings who fought alongside Odysseus in the Trojan War in hopes that one of them might have news of his father. While Telemachus is gone, the suitors plot to ambush his returning ship and kill him. We are treated to a glimpse of life among the supreme gods on Mount Olympus. Urged on by Athena, the goddess of war, they decide that Odysseus has been marooned too long on the island of the nymph Kalypso. Meanwhile, the mansion of Odysseus is infested with suitors for the hand of his wife Penélope. Everyone assumes Odysseus is dead.
