Heroes
Periplous

Hero

Odysseus

King of Ithaca, and the one Greek at Troy who won by thinking rather than fighting. Getting home afterwards took him ten years and cost him every man who sailed with him.

Odysseus
Trojan citizens strain to haul the great wooden horse, inscribed as an offering to Pallas Athena, through the gates and into the city of Troy. Painting by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, c. 1760.

The journey

8 myths ยท 8 places

  1. 1 The Wooden Horse Troy
  2. 2 Polyphemus the Cyclops Sicily
  3. 3 Aeolus and the Bag of Winds Aeolian Islands
  4. 4 Circe the Enchantress Monte Circeo
  5. 5 The Sirens' Song Sirenusas Islands
  6. 6 Scylla and Charybdis Strait of Messina
  7. 7 Calypso's Island Gozo
  8. 8 The Homecoming Ithaca
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