GREEK LITERATURE

Body of writings in the Greek language,with a

continuous history extending from 1st
millennium BC to the present day, from
beginning its writers were Greeks living not only
in Greece proper but also in Asia Minor, the
Aegean Islands and Magna Graecia (Sicily and
southern Italy).
 ODYSSEY
GREEK EPIC POEM

WRITTEN BY HOMER

ABOUT LONG JOURNEY OF A MAN

NAMED ODYSSEUS

SPIRITUAL QUEST
 ODYSSEY
◊ A LONG WANDERING OR VOYAGE USUALLY
MARKED BY MANY CHANGES OF FORTUNE

◊ COMPOSED NEAR THE END OF THE 8TH

CENTURY BC SOMEWHERE IN IONIA THE
GREEK COASTAL REGION OF ANATOLIA

◊ MAINLY FOCUSES ON THE GREEK HERO

 WHO IS ODYSSEUS?
ODYSSEUS RULED ITHACA, AN ISLAND KINGDOM.
PENELOPE, ODYSSEUS’S WIFE, HAD BORNE HIM A
SON, TELEMACHUS, JUST BEFORE THE EVENTS OF
THE TROJAN WAR BEGAN TO UNFOLD.

ODYSSEUS WAS FAVORED BY THE GODDESS ATHENA

FOR CUNNING AND INTELLECT.

ODYSSEUS IS ALSO KNOWN AS ULYSSES, WHICH IS

THE ROMAN FORM OF HIS NAME.