# Odyssey Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/odyssey Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/odyssey.md Podcast: [popular Wiki of the Day](https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172) Published: 2026-07-18T16:13:46+00:00 Episode link: https://wikioftheday.com/wotdep.php?pod=popular&epnum=3363 Audio file: https://wikioftheday.com/pwotd/pwotdpod20260718161346.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/episodes/odyssey Duration seconds: 199 ## Resource pWotD Episode 3363: Odyssey Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today. With 311,479 views on Friday, 17 July 2026 our article of the day is Odyssey. The Odyssey (; Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia [odýsseːa]) is one of two major epics of ancient Greek literature attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and remains popular with modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books. It follows the heroic king of Ithaca, Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, and his homecoming journey after the ten-year-long Trojan War. His journey from Troy to Ithaca lasts an additional ten years, during which time he encounters many perils and all of his crewmates are killed. In Odysseus's long absence, he is presumed dead, leaving his wife Penelope and son Telemachus to contend with a group of unruly suitors competing for Penelope's hand in marriage. The Odyssey was first composed in Homeric Greek around the 8th or 7th century BC; by the mid-6th century BC, it had become part of the Greek literary canon. In antiquity, Homer's authorship was taken as true, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently, as part of long oral traditions. Given widespread illiteracy, the poem was performed for an audience by an aoidos or rhapsode. Key themes in the epic include the ideas of nostos (νόστος; 'return', homecoming), wandering, xenia (ξενία; 'guest-friendship'), testing, and omens. Scholars discuss the narrative prominence of certain groups within the poem, such… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/episodes/odyssey/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/popular-wiki-of-the-day-1065172/odyssey.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.