Odysseus

= Odysseus =

Odysseus, son of Laertes, was the King of Ithaka at the beginning of the Trojan War. He is one of the suitors of Helen, and is called by Agamemnon to join the Achaean force and rescue her from Troy. He appears in the Illiad, and is the main figure in the Odyssey. He had a wife, Penelope, and a son Telemachus.