Glory

Stories with the Glory theme:

• Achilles and the Trojan War Jul 29, 2025

  

  Among all the heroes who sailed to Troy, none was more celebrated, more feared, or more tragic than Achilles, son of Peleus and the sea-goddess Thetis. His story is one of divine prophecy and mortal choice, of friendship and rage, of the price of glory and the inevitability of fate. The tale of Achilles and his role in the Trojan War became the foundation of Homer’s Iliad, one of the greatest epic poems ever composed, and continues to resonate as a powerful exploration of what it means to be human in the face of destiny.

• 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.