character
Greek
Odysseus
The clever Greek hero whose journey home took ten years.
Origin
Hero of Homer's Odyssey. After the fall of Troy (which he engineered with the Trojan horse), he spent a decade trying to get home to Ithaca, beset by monsters, witches, and the wrath of Poseidon.
Modern usage
His name supplied the word 'odyssey' and the template for every story of a long, transformative journey home โ from O Brother, Where Art Thou? to space epics.
Tags
journey
cunning
hero