For questions about Odysseus or Ulysses, legendary king of Ithaca and hero of Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
For questions about Odysseus or Ulysses, legendary king of Ithaca and hero of Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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Did Helen and Stentor have voice-related "super-powers"?
Helen's Many Voices
In Odyssey 4.274-289 Menelaus recounts a story from the time that he and other leaders of the Greek forces at Troy were hiding in the famous decoy wooden horse which they used as a stratagem to win the Trojan War. He says that…
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Which gods were Odysseus and Penelope directly descended from?
I once read the Odysseus and Penelope were the grandchildren of two different gods. But I have had no luck finding it again.
One might have been Hermes, although I can't be sure.
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What is the fight between Odysseus and Achilles?
I remember reading in the Odyssey about a bard retelling the story of Odysseus and Achilles having a fight. It had Odysseus put his head down in tears as the bard sang the story. But it didn't say anything of the fight and I don't recall reading it…
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Is there any evidence as to which incidents in the Odyssey were invented by Homer and which were existing legends (apart from the Trojan War)?
Homer's epic the Odyssey is mainly about the Greek hero Odysseus' adventures on his way home from the Trojan War, including raiding the Cicones at Ismaros, the lotus eaters, the Cyclops' cave, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, visiting spirits in…
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