Odysseus is warned about the Sirens, who lure ships’ crews to their deaths. After negotiating their threat, they sail past Scylla and Charybdis, but all his crew are lost in shipwreck, and he ends up with Calypso for 7 years.
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After escaping from Polyphemus, Odysseus’ crew release a bag of winds, resulting in all except for his ship being eaten by cannibals. They then reach Circe’s island, where she wants to turn them all into pigs.
More paintings of Russian and Slavic legends and folk tales, including Bogatyrs, Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf, Sleeping Beauty, and the Frog Princess.
King of Ithaca, he first feigns madness to dodge going to war against Troy, but then uses his cunning and ingenuity to design the Trojan Horse and conquer the city. Runs into trouble with Polyphemus during the return journey to Ithaca.
A prolific painter of Russian and Slavic folk tales. Includes a battle from the epic of Rus, Ivan Tsarevich the Firebird and the Grey Wolf, and Baba Yaga.
Achilles returns in vengeance, his Myrmidons slaughtering many of the Trojans. He then kills Hector, the lead warrior of the Trojans, and finally succumbs to Paris’s arrow.
With Achilles refusing to take any part in the war against Troy, defeat is looming for the Greeks. His close friend Patroclus drives the Trojans back, but is killed by Hector. Achilles is thrown into deep grief.
Achilles, leading his Myrmidons, is key to the Greek successes in capturing the Troad outside the city of Troy. But when Agamemnon takes his concubine, Achilles is angry and withdraws from the fighting.
The son of Thetis, he was dipped in the water of the River Styx to make him invulnerable, apart from his left heel. He went missing from the thousand ships, when he went into hiding, but was recovered by Ulysses.
After killing the usurper Pelias, Jason and Medea flee to live in Corinth. But he is offered the hand of Glauce, so abandons Medea, and their lives fall apart.
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