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The Odyssey is one of the two most important epic poems from ancient Greece, traditionally attributed to Homer, and tells the story of King Odysseus's ten-year struggle to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, facing numerous dangers along the way. It matters because it is one of the oldest and most influential surviving works of Western literature that continues to be widely read and studied today.
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Key facts
- Poem.name
- The Odyssey
- Poem.image
- Fragment Odyssee 2245 2.jpg
- Poem.caption
- Oldest-known manuscript fragment of the Odyssey, produced in Ptolemaic Egypt during the 3rd century BC and unearthed in Medinet Ghoram
- Poem.original_title
- Ὀδύσσεια
- Poem.original_title_lang
- el
- Poem.translator
- See translations of the Odyssey or English translations
- Poem.language
- Homeric Greek
- Poem.genre
- Epic
- Poem.form
- Epic poem
- Poem.metre
- Dactylic hexameter
- Poem.rhyme
- None
- Poem.written_label
- Composed
- Poem.by_label
- Attributed to
- Poem.author
- Homer
- Poem.lines
- 12,109
- Poem.preceded_by
- The Iliad
- Poem.wikisource
- The Odyssey
- Poem.orig_lang_code
- el
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Homer
- Genre
- epic poem
- Country of origin
- Ancient Greece
- Series
- Epic Cycle
- Narrative location
- Mediterranean Sea
- Image
- Fragment Odyssee 2245 2.jpg
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- characters
- Athena
- Commons category
- Odyssey
- topic's main category
- Category:Odyssey
- first line
- Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
- language of work or name
- Homeric Greek
- title
- Ὀδύσσεια
- derivative work
- Les Aventures de Télémaque
- copyright status
- public domain
- used metre
- hexameter
- different from
- The Odyssey
- entry in abbreviations table
- Hom. Od.
- topic has template
- Template:Odyssey navbox
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- number of parts of this work
- 12109
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