Odyssey is one of the most important epic poems of ancient Greece, attributed to Homer. The plot of the Odyssey is the continuation of the Iliad work of the famous Trojan War. The following work, therefore, is the warrior's return Odysseus (or Ulysses) to his homeland, Ithaca, Greece. During his return by sea, the war hero faces many dangers and adventures, taking ten years to return.
The Odyssey begins with the story of Telemachus and Penelope, respectively the son and wife of Odysseus. The hero went out to the Trojan War when the child was only a month old, and spent twenty years away - ten in the war and ten in return. Meanwhile, several men knocked Penelope’s door, trying to convince her that her husband died and trying to remarry her.