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The Achaeans entered the city using the Trojan Horse and slew the slumbering population. Priam and his surviving sons and grandsons were killed. Antenor, who had earlier offered hospitality to the Achaean embassy that asked the return of Helen of Troy and had advocated so [1] was spared, along with his family by Menelaus and Odysseus.
Odysseus also converses with his dead comrades from Troy. Odysseus and the Sirens, eponymous vase of the Siren Painter, c. 480–470 BC (British Museum) Returning to Aeaea, they buried Elpenor and were advised by Circe on the remaining stages of the journey. They skirted the land of the Sirens. All of the sailors had their ears plugged up with ...
In the Odyssey, Homer has nostos being the "return home from Troy by sea." [4] Nostos can be told by those who experienced it themselves, or there are simply instances in which it is present. [4] Those who told their adventures on the sea on their journey back home from Troy were Menelaus, Nestor, and Odysseus. [4]
It chronicles the story of Greek hero Odysseus during his tumultuous journey home following the Trojan War. ... and 2024’s “The Return” with Ralph Fiennes is adapted from the last sections ...
Homer's epic poem in 24 books follows the King of Ithaca around the Mediterranean as he attempts to return home to his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, after a 10-year campaign in Troy.
Some years after Odysseus' return, Telegonus, the son of Odysseus and Circe, came to Ithaca and plundered the island. Odysseus, attempting to fight off the attack, was killed by his unrecognised son. After Telegonus realised he had killed his father, he brought the body to his mother Circe, along with Telemachus and Penelope.
Odysseus returns to the Argive camp with Philoctetes and his arrows. [ 43 ] Perhaps Odysseus' most famous contribution to the Greek war effort is devising the strategy of the Trojan Horse , which allows the Greek army to sneak into Troy under cover of darkness.
Epic: The Musical (stylized as EPIC) is a nine-part series of concept albums (referred to as "sagas") with music and lyrics by Jorge Rivera-Herrans. A sung-through adaptation of Homer's Odyssey inspired by musical theater, it tells the story of Odysseus as he tries to return from Troy to Ithaca after the ten-year-long Trojan War.