My favorite, however, was Odysseus (Sean Bean). The King of Ithica, Odysseus, was one of the few Achilles respected and who could speak truth to the demigod's power. Troy's ending saw the sack of ...

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

Achilles is killed by a flukey arrow to the heel and Odysseus has a plan for a secret weapon to end the war - a wooden horse. The Old Soldier returns to the prophecy that Achilles will be killed ...