Odysseus
Odysseus (/oʊˈdɪsiəs, oʊˈdɪsjuːs/; Greek: Ὀδυσσεύς [odysˈsews]), also known by the Latin name Ulysseus (US /juːˈlɪsiːz/, UK /ˈjuːlɪsiːz/; Latin: Ulyssēs, Ulixēs), was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle.
Husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laërtes and Anticlea, Odysseus is renowned for his brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and is hence known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (mētis, or "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for the ten eventful years he took to return home after the decade-long Trojan War.
Name, etymology and epithets
The name has several variants: Olysseus (Ὀλυσσεύς), Oulixeus (Οὐλιξεύς), Oulixes (Οὐλίξης) and he was known as Ulyssēs in Latin or Ulixēs in Roman mythology. Hence, "there may originally have been two separate figures, one called something like Odysseus, the other something like Ulixes, who were combined into one complex personality."
Odysseus (disambiguation)
Odysseus is a character in Greek mythology.
Odysseus may also refer to:
See also
Odysseus (role-playing game)
Odysseus is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1980.
Description
Odysseus is a legendary/historical system, mixing the heroic and classical ages of ancient Greece. The game includes rules for character creation, combat, warship movement and combat, plus guidelines for campaigns and interference by the gods.
Publication history
Odysseus was designed by Marshall T. Rose and published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1980 as a 32-page book and four cardstock sheets.
Reception
Lawrence Schick commented that the game was "Indifferently researched; closer to fantasy than to history."
Reviews
References
Odysseus (crater)
Coordinates: 32°49′N 128°53′W / 32.82°N 128.89°W
Odysseus is the largest crater on Saturn's moon Tethys. It is 445 km across, more than 2/5 of the moon's diameter, and is one of the larger craters in the Solar System. It is situated in the western part of leading hemisphere of the moon—the latitude and longitude of its center are 32.8°N and 128.9°W, respectively. It is named after the Greek hero Odysseus.
Discovery
Odysseus was discovered by Voyager 2 spacecraft on 1 September 1981 during its flyby of Saturn. It was named after the Greek hero Odysseus from Homer's Odyssey and Iliad.
Geology
The Odysseus crater is now quite flat for its size of approximately 450 km or more precisely, its floor conforms to Tethys' spherical shape. This is most likely due to the viscous relaxation of the Tethyan icy crust over geologic time. The floor lies approximately 3 km below the mean radius, while its exterior rim is about 5 km above the mean radius—the relief of 6–9 km is not very high for such a large crater. Inside the crater the rim is composed of arcuate scarps and extends for about 100 km until the floor is reached. There are several graben radiating away from Odysseus, which are 10–20 km wide and hundreds of kilometers long. They are likely to be cracks in the crust created by the impact. The most prominent among them is called Ogygia Chasma.
1143 Odysseus
1143 Odysseus is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid that orbits in the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system, in the "Greek Camp" of trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Odysseus Laertiades in Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth in 1930.
As a Jupiter Trojan it is in a very stable orbit. Its closest approach to any major planet will be on 2083-May-04 when it will still be 3.104 AU (464,400,000 km; 288,500,000 mi) from Mars.
Based on IRAS data, Odysseus is 126 km in diameter and is about the 8th largest Jupiter Trojan known.
Photometric observations of this asteroid during 1994 were used to build a light curve showing a rotation period of 10.111 ± 0.004 hours with a brightness variation of 0.22 ± 0.01 magnitude.
