Not Achilles, he was all brawn, preferring the less subtle approach of stabbing mo-fos in the face repeatedly till they die. Odysseus was clever and cunning, using his MacGyver-like ingenuity to think his way out of any shenanigans the gods threw at him. In many ways, these larger-than-life Greek heroes were the proto-type to today’s modern Superheroes, except with less spandex, and more toga…Īchilles was practically the opposite of Odysseus in every way. It seems that no matter where you went in the ancient world, you had a good chance of running into a guy whose mom hooked up with Zeus. Homer uses more graphic epithets than a Marvel comic book by Stan Lee (“…swift-footed-Achilles… our long-haired Achaeans … the man-killing Hector…”) Achilles was one of a dozen Greek heroes who boasted super-natural origins. In Homer’s interpretation of this full-scale siege, demi-god-for-hire: Achilles steals the show with his all-around bad-ass-ness, smiting fools left and right like a young Michael Jordan. ‘The Illiad’ on the other hand focuses on the end of the war, and the fall of Troy. In ‘The Odyssey’, Odysseus (also known as Ulysses) becomes lost out at sea, for a good decade, in an attempt to return home from the war to Greece and his family, but must contend with Sirens, Calypso, a Cyclops, and one pissed-off ocean deity (Poseidon) intent on making his journey as miserable as possible. īoth ‘The Illiad’ and ‘The Odyssey’ are centered around the Trojan War. Therefore the exact location of Troy’s ruins are uncertain to this day, but most scholars believe it was located in what is now modern-day Turkey. Most of what we know about this ancient war comes from a kick-ass Epic-Poem called “The Illiad” by Homer… the author of ‘The Odyssey’, no not the doughnut-eating-Simpson. The walled-City of Troy was a fortress, a massive palace of luxury, but after ten-long-years, and a Trojan-Horse-prank later the city was ransacked, pillaged, and burned to the ground. The Trojan War is considered by many scholars to be the focal point of Greek Mythology, since the conflict is attributed to a quarrel between the Olympians interfering in mortal affairs, because they were bored sitting around on clouds and gossiping about the affairs of Aries and Aphrodite. Since this event occurred prior to history as we know it, it’s practically impossible to decipher the facts from the myths, except for the whole interference of the Gods aspect.
The Trojan Horse: Don’t trust your ‘Neigh’-bors…Īt the Dawn of the ‘Heroic Age’ (during the midst of the Bronze Age), when monsters, and myths walked among men, The War for Troy is said to have waged for Ten Years between the united kingdoms of Greece (the Achaeans), and the Trojans (of Troy).
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