Odysseus

Died c. 1150 BCE

Cunning king of Ithaca whose ten-year journey home from Troy is told in the Odyssey.

Odysseus is a Greek hero from legend and epic tradition.

This is a figure of legend or epic. The dates are estimates from the setting of the story, not historical facts.

Known as

Greek hero

Category

Legends & Epics

Died

c. 1150 BCE

Trojan War

• Achilles Died c. 1184 BCE, Greek hero
• Hector Died c. 1184 BCE, Trojan hero
• Agamemnon Died c. 1180 BCE, Greek king
• Priam Died c. 1184 BCE, Trojan king
• Ajax the Great Died c. 1184 BCE, Greek hero

From the same age of legend

• Orestes Born c. 1195 BCE, son of Agamemnon
• Telemachus Born c. 1194 BCE, Greek hero
• Nausicaa Born c. 1190 BCE, Phaeacian princess
• Peisistratus Born c. 1190 BCE, son of Nestor
• Astyanax Born c. 1186 BCE, Trojan child
• Dido Born c. 1180 BCE, queen of Carthage

Portrait: Didier Descouens, Public domain.