Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
All confessions are Odysseys.