Odysseus Bust - King of Ithaca - Hero of Homer's Iliad, Odyssey - Intellectual Brilliance, Guile and Versatility - Alabaster Sculpture

Item Specifics

Condition: New, Handmade in Greece
Height: 22 cm(8.5")
Width: 10 cm(4")
Weight: 1 Kg
Material: Alabaster

Odysseus was a legendary hero in Greek mythology, king of the island of Ithaca and the main protagonist of Homer's epic, the “Odyssey”. Homer portrayed Odysseus as a man of outstanding wisdom and shrewdness, eloquence, resourcefulness, courage, and endurance. In the Iliad, Odysseus appears as the man best suited to cope with crises in personal relations among the Greeks, and he plays a leading part in achieving the reconciliation between Agamemnon and Achilles. He is most famous for his nostos, or "homecoming", which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long Trojan War.