Ulysses / Odysseus. Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, is 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 that same epic cycle. Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and father of Telemachus and Acusilaus.
Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility, and is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning. He is most famous for his nostos, or homecoming, which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long Trojan War.
In Greek the name was used in various versions. Vase inscriptions have the two groups of Olyseus, Olysseus or ÅŒlysseus, and Olyteus or Olytteus.
Probably from an early source from Magna Graecia dates the form Oulixes, while a later grammarian has Oulixeus. In Latin the figure was known as Ulixes or Ulysses. Some have supposed that there may originally have been two separate figures, one called something like Odysseus, the other something like Ulixes, who were combined into one complex personality. However, the change between d and l is common also in some Indo-European and Greek names, and the Latin form is supposed to be derived from the Etruscan Uthuze, which perhaps accounts for some of the phonetic innovations. The etymology of the name is unknown. Ancient authors linked the name to the Greek verbs odussomai to be wroth
Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle. Son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, and father of Telemachus and Acusilaus.
Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility, and is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning. He is most famous for his nostos, or homecoming, which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long Trojan War.
In Greek the name was used in various versions. Vase inscriptions have the two groups of Olyseus, Olysseus or ÅŒlysseus, and Olyteus or Olytteus.
Probably from an early source from Magna Graecia dates the form Oulixes, while a later grammarian has Oulixeus. In Latin the figure was known as Ulixes or Ulysses. Some have supposed that there may originally have been two separate figures, one called something like Odysseus, the other something like Ulixes, who were combined into one complex personality. However, the change between d and l is common also in some Indo-European and Greek names, and the Latin form is supposed to be derived from the Etruscan Uthuze, which perhaps accounts for some of the phonetic innovations. The etymology of the name is unknown. Ancient authors linked the name to the Greek verbs odussomai to be wroth
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