Odysseus is drawing 27x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 2 edits to this article on 2026-07-18, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Journey home to Ithaca
• Television and film

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,528 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,528 characters to Journey home to Ithaca. See everything that changed on 2026-07-18 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.