Facts about Odyssey by Homer
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Telemachus, Odysseus's son, journeys across the Mediterranean to seek news of his father during the opening books of Homer's epic.
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Circe, the enchantress in the Odyssey, transforms Odysseus's men into pigs before he compels her to restore them to human form.
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Penelope, Odysseus's faithful wife in the Odyssey, delays her suitors by weaving and secretly unraveling a shroud each night.
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In the Odyssey, Odysseus blinds the Cyclops Polyphemus by driving a sharpened olive-wood stake into his single eye.
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Among its most celebrated episodes, the Odyssey features the Cyclops Polyphemus, a one-eyed giant and son of the god Poseidon.
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Composed in 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.