The First Wanderings of Odysseus
Following the sack of Troy, Odysseus sailed with twelve ships to the land of the Cicones. Here he sacked the city and enslaved its women, but, not for the …
Category: Greek Mythology
Ephyra in History & Today
Pausanias identifies Ephyra as the inspiration for Homer’s Hades in the Odyssey. ‘Here’, he writes, ‘is the Acherousian Lake, the River Acheron and the noxious stream called the Cocytus. …
Troy: A City Contested by Gods & Men
And did you then turn traitor, Zeus, betray your temple here at Troy, your altar sweet with incense the wisps of myrrh that rose in fragrance to the sky, …
Odysseus’ Wandering Continues
The voyage became a nightmare of increasingly surreal encounters. Visiting Aeolus, King of the Winds, Odysseus was given a leather bag in which were confined every wind except the …
The Sack of Troy
The war might still have dragged on indefinitely had not Epeius conceived an ingenious plan: to build a massive fir-wood horse, conceal hand-picked Greeks inside it, and cause it …
Troy in History & Today
Troy enjoyed a commanding position. Although today alluvial deposits from the River Karamenderes Qayi mean the coastline has moved almost 6 km away, in the early Bronze Age Troy …
The Death of Achilles & its Consequences
Achilles continued to harry his Trojan enemies and their allies. In single combat he killed both the Amazon queen Penthesilea and the Ethiopian king Memnon, the son of Eos …
The Iliad & Achilles’ Wrath
In the tenth year hostilities broke out in earnest. But there was further internal conflict in the Greek camp. Angered by Agamemnon’s refusal to restore the captured daughter of …