Max Bruch's Odysseus (recorded on Koch Schwann 3-6557-2, reviewed Fanfare Nov/Dec 1999 pp 226-7 by Martin Anderson) comes immediately to mind (well, I was just rereading that issue a few days back...) Luigi Dallapiccola's opera Ulisse, available in a Stradivarius recording at one point (reviewed in 1995 in Fanfare I think?) also suggests itself (see eg http://www.hnh.com/NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Ulisse(Ulysses).htm for information). And of course Monteverdi's treatment. Christian Cannabich wrote an "Ulisse e Orphee" (selections recorded on a Musica Bavarica LP, MB 901, in the 1970s.) Heinrich v. Herzogenberg's op. 16 is an Odysseus-symphony (which I shouldn't mind hearing!). Nancy Laird Chance (unknown name to me at this time) published a song-cycle for solo voice, percussion and orchestra "Odysseus" in 1981. Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (less unknown...) published a symphony in four movements for soprano and baritone soli, mixed chorus, and orchestra in or before 1939. (Compiled, some from memory, some with help from library catalogs. And of course one thinks, of Wilhelm Stenhammar's Ithaca (sp?)!!!) -Eric Schissel