Odysseus

Stories tagged Odysseus:

• The Fall of Troy Jul 29, 2025

  

  After ten long years of siege, the great city of Troy stood battered but still defiant behind its mighty walls. The war that had begun with Paris’s abduction of Helen had claimed countless lives on both sides, including some of the greatest heroes of the age. Yet despite the Greeks’ superior numbers and the intervention of various gods on both sides, the city remained unconquered. It would take cunning rather than courage, deception rather than direct assault, to finally bring down the proud citadel of Priam.

• Odysseus and the Trojan War Jul 28, 2025

  

  Odysseus and the Trojan War

  In the kingdom of Ithaca, on a rocky island in the Ionian Sea, ruled a king renowned not for physical might, but for his sharp intellect and silver tongue. This was Odysseus, whose wisdom and cunning would prove more valuable than a thousand swords in the greatest conflict the ancient world had ever known—the Trojan War.