Troy: everything you wanted to know
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Odyssey - The Trojan Horse
There is a sister epic, also attributed by the ancient greeks to the same homer. It's named after its hero, odysseus, a king of a relatively small kingdom on the far western side of greece. Odysses is reciting his adventures since he left troy after the fall of troy. And among his adventures, he recites the fall of Troy and how it happened. These poems are very subtle and culturally ethically complex.
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