=Odyssey.= Homer’s epic, recording the adventures of Odysseus (_Ulysses_) in his voyage home from Troy. Book I. The poem opens in the island of Calypso, with a complaint against Neptune and Calypso for preventing the return of Odysseus (3 _syl._) to Ithaca. II. Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, starts in search of his father, accompanied by Pallas, in the guise of Mentor. III. Goes to Pylos, to consult old Nestor, and IV. Is sent by him to Sparta; where he is told by Menelāus that Odysseus is detained in the island of Calypso. V. In the mean time, Odysseus leaves the island, and, being shipwrecked, is cast on the shore of Phæācia. VI. Where Nausicāa, the king’s daughter, finds him asleep, and VII. Takes him to the court of her father, Alcinöos, who VIII. Entertains him hospitably. IX. At a banquet, Odysseus relates his adventures since he started from Troy. Tells about the Lotus-eaters and the Cyclops, with his adventures in the cave of Polyphēmos. He tells how X. The wind-god gave him the winds in a bag. In the island of Circê, he says, his crew were changed to swine, but Mercury gave him a herb called Mōly, which disenchanted them. XI. He tells the king how he descended into Hadês; XII. Gives an account of the syrens; of Scylla and Charybdis; and of his being cast on the island of Calypso. XIII. Alcinoos gives Odysseus a ship which conveys him to Ithăca, where he assumes the disguise of a beggar, XIV. And is lodged in the house of Eumœos, a faithful old domestic. XV. Telemachus, having returned to Ithaca, is lodged in the same house, XVI. And becomes known to his father. XVII. Odysseus goes to his palace, is recognized by his dog, Argos; but XVIII. The beggar Iros insults him, and Odysseus breaks his jaw-bone. XIX. While bathing, the returned monarch is recognized by a scar on his leg; XX. And when he enters his palace, becomes an eye-witness to the disorders of the court, and to the way in which XXI. Penelopê is pestered by suitors. To excuse herself, Penelopê tells her suitors he only shall be her husband who can bend Odysseus’s bow. None can do so but the stranger, who bends it with ease. Concealment is no longer possible or desirable; XXII. He falls on the suitors hip and thigh; XXIII. Is recognized by his wife. XXIV. Visits his old father, Laertês; and the poem ends. =Œa´grian Harpist= (_The_), Orpheus, son of Œa´gros and Cal´liōpê. ... can no lesse Tame the fierce walkers of the wilderness, Than that Œagrian harpist, for whose lay Tigers with hunger pined and left their prey. Wm. Browne, _Brittania’s Pastorals_, v. (1613). =Œ´dipos= (in Latin _Œdipus_), son of Laïus and Jocasta. The most mournful tale of classic story.