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This episode highlights events outside of the scope of the Iliad but which are definitely within the Homeric cycle. First and foremost, Achilles’s death must follow hard on the heels, as it were, of Hector’s. But then also questions you may have about the various other participants: Menelaus, Agamemnon, Philoctetes, Diomedes, Helen, Paris, Priam, Hecuba, Cassandra, Criseis & Briseis. Not to mention Odysseus. What happens to Ajax is particularly heartbreaking IMHO. Is there more in store for the cursed house of Atreus? Yes, definitely. And of course, the elephant in the room, as it were, the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy after ten years of war. Much of this last episode is strange and tragic but fitting somehow. Enjoy episode 4 and thank you for listening.
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This episode highlights events outside of the scope of the Iliad but which are definitely within the Homeric cycle. First and foremost, Achilles’s death must follow hard on the heels, as it were, of Hector’s. But then also questions you may have about the various other participants: Menelaus, Agamemnon, Philoctetes, Diomedes, Helen, Paris, Priam, Hecuba, Cassandra, Criseis & Briseis. Not to mention Odysseus. What happens to Ajax is particularly heartbreaking IMHO. Is there more in store for the cursed house of Atreus? Yes, definitely. And of course, the elephant in the room, as it were, the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy after ten years of war. Much of this last episode is strange and tragic but fitting somehow. Enjoy episode 4 and thank you for listening.