The Odyssey is a major Ancient Greek epic poem. It was written by Homer in Mycenaean Greece, around the 8th century BC. The hero of the poem is Odysseus (or Ulysses, in Latin). It's about Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Along the way, Odysseus and his men have to fight a host of scary monsters, while his wife Penelope fights men who want to marry her.
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