Odysseus tried to recruit Achilles for the war. However, a prophecy said Achilles would either live a long, peaceful life or have a glorious death while young.

Odysseus’ famous homecoming – his nostos – provides part of the root of our modern word nostalgia, coined in 1688 to describe a kind of mad longing for the past. Literally meaning “grief for/from a ...

The team now believe the Agios Athanasios is the previously-referenced site of the Odysseion—the center of a cult of hero ...