THE ODYSSEY

"My name is Nobody".
After decades of war, he is returning home, to his wife and child. The wrath of the gods causes Ulysses/Odysseus (AKA Nobody) to take epic detours. Braving lightweight cyclops, magical femmes fatales and dastardly monsters before the Cinderella-like finale (in which a clever queen "dowager" has all her suitors, including a ragged stranger, try to shoot with her "late" husband's bow... guess who succeeds, and who the victorious beggar actually is!). (Did it remind you of "Cinderella", gender-flipped?)
The first classic of Western literature, supplying subsequent fiction with shout-outs and motifs, established the premise of the homecoming adventure genre.