Facts about Homer's Odyssey

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   In Homer's Odyssey, the enchantress Circe transforms Odysseus's crew into pigs on her island of Aeaea before Odysseus compels her to restore them.

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   Penelope, Odysseus's faithful wife in the Odyssey, delays her suitors by weaving and secretly unraveling a shroud, claiming she must finish it before choosing a husband.

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   Among its many characters, the Odyssey features the Cyclops Polyphemus, a one-eyed giant and son of the god Poseidon, whose blinding by Odysseus triggers the hero's prolonged suffering at sea.

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   Composed of 24 books, the Odyssey contains roughly 12,000 lines of dactylic hexameter verse.

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   The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer that follows the hero Odysseus on his ten-year journey home after the fall of Troy.

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