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Odysseus

also: Ὀδυσσεύς, Ὀδυσῆι, son of Laertes, godlike Odysseus, much-enduring Odysseus, man of many wiles, of many devices

King of Ithaca, son of Laertes, husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus; the poem's hero, kept from home ten years by Poseidon's anger and finally by Calypso, and the subject of its opening invocation.

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The Iliad poem · 84 mentions
The Odyssey poem · 390 mentions

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