<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Odysseus (/ oʊ ˈdɪsiəs, oʊ ˈdɪsjuːs /; Greek: Ὀδυσσεύς, Ὀδυσεύς, Ὀdysseús (odysse͜ús)), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (US: / juː ˈlɪsiːz /, UK: / ˈjuːlɪsiːz /; Latin: Ulyssēs, Ulixēs), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey . Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle . </P> <P> Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus, Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (Greek: μῆτις or mētis, "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for his nostos or "homecoming", which took him ten eventful years after the decade - long Trojan War . </P> <P> In Greek the name was used in various versions . Vase inscriptions have the two groups of Olyseus (Ὀλυσεύς), Olysseus (Ὀλυσσεύς) or Ōlysseus (Ὠλυσσεύς), and Olyteus (Ὀλυτεύς) or Olytteus (Ὀλυττεύς). Probably from an early source from Magna Graecia dates the form Oulixēs (Οὐλίξης), while a later grammarian has Oulixeus (Οὐλιξεύς). In Latin the figure was known as Ulixēs or (considered less correct) Ulyssēs . Some have supposed that "there may originally have been two separate figures, one called something like Odysseus, the other something like Ulixes, who were combined into one complex personality ." However, the change between d and l is common also in some Indo - European and Greek names, and the Latin form is supposed to be derived from the Etruscan Uthuze (see below), which perhaps accounts for some of the phonetic innovations . </P>

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