Odyssey
The Odyssey, is an ancient Greek epic attributed to the aegis Homer, who would have composed it after the Iliad, towards the end of the eighth century BC. It is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of literature and, together with the Iliad, is one of the two founding poems of European civilization. The Odyssey recounts the return home of the hero Ulysses, who, after the Trojan War, in which he played a decisive role, took ten years to return to his island of Ithaca, where he found his wife Penelope, whom he delivers suitors, and his son Telemachus. During his voyage to the sea, made dangerous by the wrath of the god Poseidon, Ulysses encounters many mythological characters, such as the nymph Calypso, the princess Nausicaa, the Cyclops, the magician Circe and the sirens. The epic also contains a number of episodes that complete the account of the Trojan War, for example the construction of the Trojan horse and the fall of the city, which are not mentioned in the Iliad.