Odysseus blinded Poseidon's son's eye who is a Cyclops. So he was cursed that can not go back home. He tried to go back home in the Odyssey.
at the beginning of the story odysseus is on calypso's island, where he has been for the past 8 years. he is trying to get back to his home.
Back home to Ithaca.
Return to itlanca
Odysseus' main goal is trying to return home, to Ithaca.
In the Odyssey, Odysseus is trying to get back home to Ithaca
they are trying to win his Odysseus's wife's hand in marriage
Tiresias .
Odysseus was trying to kill them all. Only by killing Odysseus could they save their own lives.
He is trying to get back home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
I think its Odysseus's son Telemachus
Suiters are taking over Odysseus' home, trying to court his wife.