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Odysseus and Diomedes go into Troy disguised as beggars, where Helen recognises them but keeps their secret ; they return safely with the Palladium, killing some Trojans on the way.
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After Achilles, Ajax is the most valuable warrior in Agamemnon's army ( along with Diomedes ), though he is not as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes, Idomeneus, or Odysseus, he is much more powerful and just as intelligent.
Diomedes and Odysseus, when faced with his attack, described him as what Robert Fagles translated as an ' invincible headlong terror ', and a ' maniac '.
Diomedes and Odysseus hinder Hector and win the Greeks some time to retreat, but the Trojans sweep down upon the wall and rain blows upon it.
However, Pausanias, quoting the Cypria, says that Odysseus and Diomedes drowned Palamedes, while he was fishing, and Dictys says that Odysseus and Diomedes lured Palamedes into a well, which they said contained gold, then stoned him to death.
Odysseus and Diomedes retrieved Philoctetes, whose wound had healed.
Later, with Helen's help, Odysseus and Diomedes stole the Palladium.
Among the contenders were Odysseus, Ajax the great, Diomedes, Achilles, Patroclus, Idomeneus, and both Menelaus and Agamemnon.
Awakened by Apollo, he is the first to discover the damage caused by Odysseus and Diomedes in the Thracian camp.
Odysseus and Diomedes came to Scyros seeking Achilles.
Odysseus devised a trick to draw Achilles out of his disguise as a girl ; Diomedes and Odysseus then took Achilles to Troy.
Diomedes, Nestor and Odysseus were some of the greatest Achaean strategists.
In Aulis, where Achaean leaders gathered, Diomedes met his brother in arms Odysseus, with whom he shared several adventures.
Diomedes and Odysseus were Agamemnon ’ s most trusted officers.
When he decided to sacrifice his daughter to Artemis, Diomedes and Odysseus were among the few Achaean officers familiar with his plans.
Some say that Diomedes conspired with Odysseus against Palamedes, and under the pretence of having discovered a hidden treasure, they let him down into a well and there stoned him to death.
Others say that, though Diomedes guessed or knew about the plot, he did not try to defend Palamedes, because Odysseus was essential for the fall of Troy.
They woke up Odysseus, Nestor, Ajax, Diomedes and Idomeneus.
Although Odysseus had deserted Diomedes in the battlefield that very day, instead of bashing him, the latter praised his bravery in front of others.
On their way to the Trojan camp, Diomedes and Odysseus discovered Dolon approaching the Achaean camp.
On further questioning, Diomedes and Odysseus learnt that among the various allies, Thracians were the most vulnerable for they had come last and were sleeping apart from the others at the far end of the camp.
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She also advised Odysseus to go to the Underworld and gave him directions.
Both Odysseus and Gilgamesh are known for traveling to the ends of the earth, and on their journeys go to the land of the dead.
After the gods in council had determined that Odysseus should return home from the island of Ogygia, Athena, assuming the appearance of Mentes, king of the Taphians, went to Ithaca, and advised Telemachus to eject the troublesome suitors of his mother from his house, and to go to Pylos and Sparta, to gather information concerning his father.
After making a truce with Odysseus, Circe advises him to see the prophet Tiresias for more advices to safely go back home.
Icarius correctly understood that this was a sign of her will to leave with Odysseus, let them go and erected a statue of Aidos ( Modesty ) on the spot.
Realizing that Odysseus being seen with her might cause rumors, she and the servants go ahead into town.
But first she advises Odysseus to go directly to Alcinous ' house and make his case to Nausicaa's mother, Arete.
The suitors ' go on to try and kill Odysseus ' family, but they are thwarted by the goddess Athena.
Only Alcinous noticed Odysseus ’ weeping and stopped the feast and suggests that everyone go outdoors to participate in athletic contests.
Odysseus cannot be away from his wife Penelope any longer and wants to go to Calypso to tell her.
The Suzanne Vega song " Calypso " from the album Solitude Standing is based on The Odyssey, namely the part in which Calypso is forced to let Odysseus go.
Circe orders Odysseus to go through Hades, crossing the River Styx ( which has the Styx song, Lady playing during the crossing ), in order to go home so he can see Penelope ( Marge ) and Telemachus ( Bart ).
Penelope decides to take him back, though he leaves to go to Moe's ( even though Moe is killed and eaten by Odysseus earlier in the episode ).
In accordance with this prophecy, Odysseus and Diomedes go to Lemnos to bring back Philoctetes, who is healed of his wound by Machaon.
He goes to the palace where he finds Helen's husband, King Menelaus ( Niall MacGinnis ), Agamemnon ( Robert Douglas ), Odysseus ( Torin Thatcher ), Achilles ( Stanley Baker ) and many other Greek kings debating whether to go to war with Troy.
*" Calypso " is based on The Odyssey, namely the part in which Calypso is forced to let Odysseus go.
She tells him that the Underworld is where to go next, and only then does Odysseus realize that he has actually been tricked by Circe, who put a spell on him so he actually stayed on the island for five years.
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Homer is somewhat vague about the precise manner of Ajax's death but does ascribe it to his loss in the dispute over Achilles's shield: when Odysseus visits Hades, he begs the soul of Ajax to speak to him, but Ajax, still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus.
She invited Odysseus ' crew to a feast of familiar food, a pottage of cheese and meal, sweetened with honey and laced with wine, but also laced with one of her magical potions, and she turned them all into swine with a wand after they gorged themselves on it.
The vase collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece holds a 5th century BC lekythos with a depiction of this episode described as " Odysseus ' companions turned into swine "
His raft was sucked into Charybdis ' maw, but Odysseus survived by clinging to a fig tree grown on the rock overhanging her lair.
After ComStar split into two factions Mars was claimed along with Terra by the Word of Blake during Operation Odysseus.
The next day, at Athena ’ s prompting, Penelope maneuvers the Suitors into competing for her hand with an archery competition using Odysseus ' bow.
* Similarly, Daniel Wallace's Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions ( 1998 ) adapts the epic to the American South, while also incorporating tall tales into its first-person narrative much as Odysseus does in the Apologoi ( Books 9-12 ).
* Dominic Allen's stage play Odyssey loosely adapts the story into a post-apocalyptic setting, basing the Odysseus character on Ezra Pound.
Odysseus, with the help of his men, lifts the flaming stake, charges forward and drives it into Polyphemus ' eye, blinding him.
Some post-Homeric authors state that the Sirens were fated to die if someone heard their singing and escaped them, and that after Odysseus passed by they therefore flung themselves into the water and perished.
According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus came up with the idea of building a great wooden horse ( the horse being the emblem of Troy ), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy.
: But come now, change thy theme, and sing of the building of the horse of wood, which Epeius made with Athena's help, the horse which once Odysseus led up into the citadel as a thing of guile, when he had filled it with the men who sacked Ilion.
Transformed into the goddess Leucothea, Ino also represents one of the many sources of divine aid to Odysseus in the Odyssey ( 5: 333ff ), her earliest appearance in literature.
A third story says that when she was given to Odysseus as a slave, she snarled and cursed at him, so the gods turned her into a dog, allowing her to escape.
* In Jean Racine's play Andromaque ( 1667 ), Astyanax has narrowly escaped death at the hands of Odysseus, who has unknowingly been tricked into killing another child in his place.
Athena infuses vigour into Laërtes, so he can help Odysseus.
Eurylochus suspects her treachery, and when she turns the rest of the expedition into pigs, Eurylochus escapes and warns Odysseus and the portion of the crew who stayed on the ship, thus enabling Odysseus to attempt a rescue.
Agamemnon proposed drawing the ships on the beach into the water but Odysseus rebuked him and pointed out the folly of such council.
According to some, Diomedes and Odysseus were sent into the city of Troy to negotiate for peace after the death of Paris.
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