Odysseus is a legendary/historical system, mixing the heroic and classical ages of ancient Greece.
[1] Odysseus was designed by Marshall T. Rose and published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1980 as a 32-page book and four cardstock sheets.
The role-playing world could use a good Heroic Age game system.
With a great deal of interpretation and interpolation, Odysseus is perhaps usable by players familiar with role-playing systems, but the confused nature of its rules, and the lack of color in its world hardly make it worthwhile.
"[3] Lawrence Schick commented that the game was "Indifferently researched; closer to fantasy than to history.