... , and reaches a resolution at the conclusion of the story. As its name reveals, the hero and protagonist of The Odyssey is the character Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, a small, rugged island on the western coast of Greece. Odysseus takes part in the Trojan War on the side of Agamemnon and the Greeks. Of all the heroes who return from the war, his homeward voyage is the longest and most perilous. Even after the battle had been won and ... course of these ten years, Odysseus is pitted against varied forces - the Cicones, the Lotus-Eaters, the Cyclops, the Laestrygonians, the goddess Circe, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate