The Odyssey - Homer

The story of the Odyssey is an epic branching from the story of the Trojan Wars, those ancient long wars that broke out between the armies of the city-states of Greece and the armies of Troy and its allies from Asia Minor at that time, and its cause is what we mentioned in the story of the Iliad, as Paris, son of King Priam, King of Troy, came as a guest to King Menelaus, King of Sparta, and he did not stay long before he stole his wife and his treasures and fled to Troy, so the war broke out which lasted ten years until the Greek armies managed to storm the city thanks to the trick suggested by Odysseus, the hero of the story of the Odyssey, which is the trick of the large wooden horse in which a elite of the bravest Greek soldiers hid.. which is mentioned in the story of the Trojan Wars. Author: Homer Translator: Drini Khashaba