How to pronounce “odysseus” in English

So Odysseus returns home from the Trojan War, and Athena puts him in a magical disguise.

And we changed Odysseus to Odyssa.

If you look at Odysseus, who I spent some time on in the early stages of the book, who was the great trickster and a really successful one.

"Self-Portrait as Odysseus.

we don't see Odysseus for a bit, he's supposed to be the hero, we zoom down on Ithaca and we find his family.

is "The Odyssey" and the adventures of Odysseus as he attempts to return home from the Trojan War.

and questions looking not at Odysseus the hero himself, but looking at his son Telemachus

Because from what you describe with the scene with Odysseus' dog, you understand how to do a particular kind of storytelling

Odysseus won.

Angel Island is now Greece and Ithaca and the home of Odysseus's trials and tribulations.

So here is Telemachus, Odysseus's son, waiting at the beach in Ayala Cove as the ferry full of audience members arrive.

now, how Odysseus challenged the one-eyed cannibal giant, the Cyclops, how he managed to get past the alluring Sirens,

Very early in the first couple of lines of "The Odyssey," Odysseus, he's being talked about, the poet is calling to the Muse

in the household of Penelope, Odysseus' wife, and his son, Telemachus, in Ithaca,

of whom Homer would one day sing, men and women who lived in the age of Odysseus and Helen and Agamemnon.

One way to think of this, I think, that's helpful as the myth of Odysseus.

So he knows that when he sails-- he wants to hear the Sirens, but he knows the future Odysseus is not going

And another hiker said, well, what about Odysseus?

So when you actually step out of the Cyclops' cave, if you know the story, you realize that this is the stake that Odysseus

Eventually, when we do hear these stories, they are told by Odysseus to somebody else, we don't see them as it were firsthand.

to tell the story of this man, the man we don't yet know, but the man is a Odysseus.