id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8941 Odysseus - Wikipedia .html text/html 7465 793 77 Some have supposed that "there may originally have been two separate figures, one called something like Odysseus, the other something like Ulixes, who were combined into one complex personality."[5] However, the change between d and l is common also in some Indo-European and Greek names,[6] and the Latin form is supposed to be derived from the Etruscan Uthuze (see below), which perhaps accounts for some of the phonetic innovations. When Helen is abducted, Menelaus calls upon the other suitors to honour their oaths and help him to retrieve her, an attempt that leads to the Trojan War. Odysseus tries to avoid it by feigning lunacy, as an oracle had prophesied a long-delayed return home for him if he went. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey portray Odysseus as a culture hero, but the Romans, who believed themselves the heirs of Prince Aeneas of Troy, considered him a villainous falsifier. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8941.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8941.txt