Trojan war

The Odyssey

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    Trojan War 1

    Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
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    Trojan war 2

    The brutal and bloody Trojan War has been going on for ten loooooooooong years.
    Tons of people have died.
    It's was depressing.
    The great Trojan hero Hector got skewered by Achilles.
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    Trojan war 3

    Achilles died after being shot in the heel by Paris, who started the whole thing by stealing Helen from Menelaus.
    Paris, himself, has been killed by the Greek hero, Philoctetes.
    So, basically, death is everywhere, and everybody's getting pretty darn sick of this awful war.
    Still, though, both the Trojans and the Greeks are too stubborn to call it quits Then Odysseus comes up with an plan to make a huge horse for a deception.
    That is ultimately the reason why they won.
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    Lotus Eaters

    A storm sent by Zeus sends them along for nine days before bringing them to the land of the Lotus-eaters, where the natives give some of Odysseus's men the intoxicating fruit of the lotus. As soon as they eat this fruit, they lose all thoughts of home and want nothing more than to stay there eating more fruit.
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    Lotus Eater 2

    When Odysseus and his crew run across a Cyclops' deserted cave, his men want to steal, but Odysseus won't let them.
    Instead, he wants to treat the Cyclops like a human being and play the part of good guests (more on that hospitality thing). So they burn an offering in the monster's cave and wait for his return.
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    Lotus Eater 3

    the Cyclops soon returns, driving in his herd of sheep and closing the entrance of the cave behind him with a huge boulder.
    he doesn't want to play along.After some bantering he refuses their suggestion of hospitality—he doesn't care for Zeus' rules about being good guests and hosts.
    Odysseus draws his sword to kill the Cyclops in his sleep, but he stops when he realizes that they can never escape the cave without the strength of the Cyclops to remove the gigantic rock at the entrance.
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    Bag Of Wind

    Aeolus presents Odysseus with a bag containing all of the winds, and he stirs up a westerly wind to guide Odysseus and his crew home. Within ten days, they are in sight of Ithaca, but Odysseus's shipmates, who think that Aeolus has secretly given Odysseus a fortune in gold and silver, tear the bag open.
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    Bag Of Wind 2

    Within ten days, they are in sight of Ithaca, but Odysseus's shipmates, who think that Aeolus has secretly given Odysseus a fortune in gold and silver, tear the bag open. The winds escape and stir up a storm that brings Odysseus and his men back to Aeolia
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    Circe

    Odysseus and his men travel to Aeaea, home of the beautiful witch-goddess Circe. Circe drugs a band of Odysseus’s men and turns them into pigs. When Odysseus goes to rescue them, Hermes approaches him in the form of a young man. He tells Odysseus to eat an herb called moly
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    Circe 2

    therefore he is immune to the drug. Then he goes and overpowers circe forcing her to change his men back to humans causing her to fall in love.