Age of Odysseus

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The Age of Odysseus refers to the legendary heroic era in Greek mythology centered on Odysseus’s lifetime and exploits, especially those surrounding the Trojan War and its aftermath.

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Age of Odysseus canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural period
mythological era
associatedWithEvent Fall of Troy
Odysseus’s nostos
Sack of Troy
linked to: Fall of Troy

Suitors of Penelope
Trojan War
associatedWithPlace Aegean Sea
Ithaca
Mediterranean Sea
Troy
basedOn Greek mythology
culturallyInfluenced Roman literature
Western epic tradition
ancient Greek literature
later European literature
documentedIn Epic Cycle
Homer’s Iliad
linked to: Homer's Iliad

Homer’s Odyssey
linked to: Homer's Odyssey

later Greek tragedy
post-Homeric epics
featuresCharacter Achilles
Agamemnon
Ajax the Greater
Ajax the Lesser
Antinous
Athena
Calypso
Circe
Eurylochus
Eurymachus
Helen of Troy
Menelaus
Nausicaa
Nestor
Palamedes
Penelope
Polyphemus
Poseidon
Telemachus
hasKeyTheme cunning
divine intervention
fate
heroism
hospitality
marital fidelity
nostos
hasMainFigure Odysseus
hasMotif encounters with monsters
heroic journey
temptation by goddesses
testing of loyalty
trickster hero
hasRealityStatus mythic, not historical
hasStatus legendary
namedAfter Odysseus
overlapsWith Age of Heroes
partOf Heroic Age of Greek mythology
linked to: Heroic Age
timePositionRelativeTo before Archaic Greece
pre-classical Greece

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Polybus mythologicalEra Age of Odysseus