As the son of Laërtes and Anticlea, husband of Penelope, Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility, and he is thus known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (Greek: μῆτις, translit. mêtis, lit. "cunning intelligence". He is most famous for his nostos, or "homecoming", which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long Trojan War.