Odysseus son and successor to Laertes, king of Ithaca, husband of Penelope
and father of Telemachus. In the Iliad he was chosen for the night expedition
by Diomedes, and stops the massacre of the Greeks. He is an envoy to carry Agamemmnon’s
offer to Achilles,
and he wrestles Ajax
the greater. He is also the central figure of the Odyssey, which chronicles
his ten year journey home to Ithaca after the end of the Trojan war.