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Artist: Yngwie Malmsteen
Album: Odyssey
Release Date: 11 Apr 1988

The Odyssey (Ancient Greek|Greek: ''á½ˆÎ´ÏÏƒÏƒÎµÎ¹Î±'' or ''OdÃºsseia'') is one of two major ancient Hellenic civilization|Greek epic poetry|epic poems attributed to Homer. The poem was probably written near the end of the eighth century BC, somewhere along the Greek-controlled western Turkey seaside, Ionia.<ref>D.C.H. Rieu's introduction to ''The Odyssey'' (Penguin, 2003), p. ''xi''.</ref> The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's ''Iliad'' and mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Odysseus#Etymology|Ulysses, as he was known in Ancient Rome|Roman myths) and his long journey home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy.

It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.<ref>The dog Argos dies ''autik' idont' Odusea eeikosto eniauto'' ("seeing Odysseus again in the twentieth year"), [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Hom.+Od.+17.290 ''Odyssey'' 17.327]; cf. also [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Hom.+Od.+2.129 2.174-6], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Hom.+Od.+23.85 23.102], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Hom.+Od.+23.129 23.170].</ref> During this absence, his son Telemachus and wife Penelope must deal with a group of unruly suitors, called Proci, to compete for Penelope's hand in marriage, since most have assumed that Odysseus has died.

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