Italy: Head of Odysseus from a Greek marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus. Found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga, Italy, c. 1st century CE. Odysseus (Latin: Ulysses) was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the 'Odyssey'. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's 'Iliad' and other works in the Epic Cycle. He was renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility, and was thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning. He was most famous for his nostos, or "homecoming", which took him ten years after the decade-long Trojan War

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