The Odyssey

(Epic)

The Odyssey, on the other hand, follows

the warrior Odysseus as he tries to find
his way home from Troy across the
Peloponnesian Sea. Not only must he fend
off the malevolence of gods and the
seduction of Calypso, but he must also
get home before the suitors coerce his
wife into marriage. As the basis for
countless works that have followed it,
many of the narrative and poetic devices
employed in the poem have gone on to
influence what we now consider to be
Western Literature.