Telemachy

The Telemachy is a term used to describe the first four books of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

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It is widely known that the 'Odyssey' tells the epic story of Odysseus, who travels home to Ithaka from the Trojan War. The epic consists of more than twelve thousand lines of text and it is divided into 24 books. The story must be understood in the context of its events following those of the Iliad - an earlier work dealing with the conduct of the War itself. Odysseus is well known in the Iliad as being the clever architect of Troy's demise, and the threads of the two epics are carefully linked despite the fact that the Odyssey begins ten years after the Iliad has closed. That decade allows the various Iliadic heroes to meet their respective fate. Only Odysseus remains abroad.

Odysseus: :This article is about the mythological character. See also Odysseus crater, Ulysses (robot), Ulysses (poem), Ulysses (novel)...

Ithaka: REDIRECT Ithaca...

Trojan War: The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war figures centrally in Greek mythology and was narrated in a cycle of epic poems of which onl...