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In a previous story, we learned about the ancient Greek poet Homer, and his epic poem The Iliad. The Iliad told the story of the hero Achilles, and how he had to overcome his anger to help his people win the Trojan War. The Odyssey is a very different story, but just as full of adventure. It tells the story of one of the kings who fought in the Trojan War.

His name was Odysseus and the story is about his adventures as he tries to return home. The Odyssey starts after the war and is far away from the war and even far from Odysseus himself. There, we meet his son, Telemachus , who was just a baby when Odysseus went off to the fight at Troy, but who is now nearly grown up. Odysseus has been gone almost twenty years — ten years at war, and ten years trying to get home.

Penelope waits on choosing a new husband, hoping Odysseus will return home soon. She tells her suitors that she must weave a funeral blanket for her father-in-law before she can choose a new husband. So every day she weaves the cloth at her loom, and every night she unravels it, so the blanket is never finished. Her son, Telemachus decides he must find out whether his father is still alive, so he sets out on his own quest.