As promised previously in Episode 1, hear the Homeric cycle in a generally linear, episodic but decidedly non-academic and at times rather breezy and sometimes risqué version of Homer’s epic story.

As advertised, Episode 1 told of the Golden Apple of Discord, the Judgment of Paris, Helen of Sparta and the enlistment of Achilles and Odysseus into the Greek war effort.

As anticipated, Episode 2 moves forward through the challenges the Greeks face launching the thousand ships to wage war on Troy and retrieve Helen, the discord among the Greeks that leads to the rage of Achilles, the showdown between the offending Paris and the offended Menelaus, and an aristeia of Diomedes involving the gods, as well as an interesting sidebar that forms part of the Homeric tradition.