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One of the great epicslong poem about legendary or historical heroes, written in a grand style of ancient Greece, the Odyssey tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of the hero Odysseus as he made his way home after the Trojan Warlegendary war between the Greeks and the people of Troy that was set off by the kidnapping of Helen, wife of the king of Sparta; inspiration for Homer's epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. Pursued by the sea god PoseidonGreek god, ruler of the sea, and brother of Zeus (Roman god Neptune), but aided both by his own cunning and by the goddess Athenain Greek mythology, goddess of wisdom and war; the daughter of Zeus (Roman goddess Minerva), Odysseus overcame...