The Trojan wars had ended. Odysseus, Greek hero and the King of Ithaca, was desperate to return home to his wife, Penelope, and their son Telemachus, who he had not seen for ten long years.
Menelaus summons the Greek leaders to send an army to sack Troy and bring Helen back. Part 2 Among the Greeks there is one hero who doesn't wish to go to war. Odysseus has a new baby and wants to ...
Current interests include issues of kingship and gender in Herodotus; the use of local traditions in the panhellenic poetry of Pindar; Euripides and the sophists; Odysseus in Greek tragedy; the ...
Found near the ruined Temple of Zeus in the ancient city ... discovered by Greek and German researchers, contains 13 verses from the Odyssey's 14th Rhapsody, in which Odysseus addresses his ...
How did ancient Greek music sound? Pompeii's destruction ... Dating back to around 480 BC, the vase shows Odysseus strapped to the mast as his ship sails past three mythical sea nymphs whose ...
That’s how the below trailer for The Return makes us feel. The wonderful Ralph Fiennes is playing the wily Odysseus here, a Greek hero known for his quick wit and ability to think and scheme his ...