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Homer's epic poem following Odysseus's 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War — through encounters with the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis — the counterpart to the Iliad's heroism: the Odyssey's hero wins by cunning rather than martial excellence.