Odysseus ( /oʊˈdɪsiəs/ or /oʊˈdɪsjuːs/; Greek: Ὀδυσσεύς, Odusseus) or Ulysses (/juːˈlɪsiːz/; Latin: Ulyssēs, Ulixēs) was the Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle.
Husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laërtes and Anticlea, Odysseus is renowned for his guile and resourcefulness, and is hence known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (mētis, or "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for the ten eventful years he took to return home after the ten-year Trojan War and his famous Trojan Horse trick.
The name has several variants: Olysseus (Ὀλυσσεύς), Oulixeus (Οὐλιξεύς), Oulixes (Οὐλίξης) and he was known as Ulyssēs in Latin or Ulixēs in Roman mythology.
The etymology of the name is contested, according to one view, the name Odysseus derives from the verb odussomai (ὀδύσσομαι), meaning "to be wroth against', 'hate", suggesting that the name could be rendered as "the one who is wrathful/hated". Alternatively, it has been also suggested that this is of non-Greek origin and probably of non-Indo-European origin too, while it is of an unknown etymology.
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Returning from the battle of Troy, two of Odysseus' men venture onto Lotus Island to find supplies. Tempted by the mystical Lotus Eaters into eating seemingly harmless lotus blossoms, the men enter a euphoric state after which their perception of the world will never be the same again...
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband, Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad."
Keywords: achilles'-heel, achilles-tendon, achilles-tendon-cut, adulterous-wife, adultery, aegean-sea, ancient-civilization, ancient-greece, ancient-troy, ancient-world
For Honor
For Victory
For Love
For Destiny
For Passion
For Troy
Agamemnon: Peace is for women and the weak.
Andromache: [to Hector] I can't imagine life without you.
Priam: I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.
Glaucus: [the Appolonians are making their last stand] Soldiers of Troy! You men are warriors! To lead you has been my honor! [to Paris] My prince! The boatman waits for us! I say, we make him wait a little longer!::[Trojans attack as the Greeks break down the last barricade]
Agamemnon: I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant.::Hector: You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.::Agamemnon: We've come too far, Prince Hector.::Menelaus: Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, and then steal his wife in the middle of the night?::Paris: The sun was shining when your wife left you.::Menelaus: She's up there, watching, isn't she? Good. I want her to watch you die.::Agamemnon: Not yet, brother. Look around you, Hector. I brought all the warriors of Greece to your shores.::Nestor: You can still save Troy, young prince.::Agamemnon: I have two wishes. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. Second, Troy must submit to my command, to fight for me whenever I call.::Hector: You want me to look upon your army and tremble? Well I see them. I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.::Agamemnon: Careful boy, my mercy has limits.::Hector: And I've seen the limits of your mercy and I tell you now, no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.::Agamemnon: Then every son of Troy shall die.
[Paris cowardly bows out of a duel with Menelaus, leaving everyone aghast, especially Menelaus]::Menelaus: [shouts to Helen] Is this what you left me for?
[Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat]::Achilles: Do it. [Briseis doesn't do anything, but only stares at him. Achilles opens his eyes] Do it. Nothing is easier.::Briseis: Aren't you afraid?::Achilles: Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now.::Briseis: If I don't, you'll kill more men.::Achilles: Many.
Odysseus: [Achilles throws his spear into a nearby tree] Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.
Agamemnon: [approaches king] Good day for the crows.::Triopas: Remove your army from my land.::Agamemnon: Why, I like your land, I think we'll stay. I like your soldiers too.::Triopas: They won't fight for you.::Agamemnon: That's what the Messenians said, and the Acardians, and the Opeians, now they all fight for me.::Triopas: You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon. It's too big, even for you.::Agamemnon: I don't want to watch another massacre. Let's settle this war in the old manner. Your best fighter against my best.::Triopas: And if my man wins?::Agamemnon: We'll leave Thessaly for good.::Triopas: Boagrius!::[cheers from Thessalian army. Boagrius comes out from the centre of the army]::Agamemnon: Achilles!::[silence]::Triopas: Boagrius has this effect on many heroes.::Agamemnon: Be careful who you insult, old king.::Greek Soldier: My king, Achilles is not with the army.::Agamemnon: Where is he?::Greek Soldier: I sent a boy to look for him.
Achilles: If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted
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It's the year 2035. The movie starts in some underground store in zurich. A young guy gets interested about a book called "a trace of time". He starts to read and the story puts him back in the past, on the last day of the millenium. Three old friends meet ub by chance at that very night . A stranger joins them and the evening goes on...
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Tantalus: Behind the Mask follows the tumultuous creation of one of the most ambitious feats in the modern theatre -- the 12-hour recreation of the Epic Cycle, the sprawling Greek creation story which spawned all of Greek mythology. The production became a struggle between writer John Barton and director Sir Peter Hall, who had been fast friends since founding the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961, but left the battlefields of Tantalus bitter enemies.
Keywords: based-on-play
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This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient epic--replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat--chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed!
Keywords: ancient-greece, based-on-poem, battle, battlefield, blood, bronze-age, character-name-in-title, combat, cyclops, epic
Poseidon: My goal is not to kill you. You must understand.::Odysseus: What? What? [shouts] What do you want me to understand?::Poseidon: That without the gods, man is nothing.
Athena: The gods cannot do for man what man must do for himself.
Eurymachus: [Odysseus has started to kill the suitors who are locked in a room with him] Wait, wait! What is our crime? We treated your wife as a queen. We lived off you're land, that can be replaced. We did not kill anybody.::Odysseus: Your crime is that you tried to steal my world. The world I built with my hands, and my sweat...::Eurymachus: Now, anyone...::Odysseus: And my blood. The world that I shared with a woman who bore me my son, and no one will ever take that from me. Now you will die to a man in a river of blood.
Tiresias: It is the journey itself that makes up your life.
Achilles: I killed Hector! I will bury Troy!
Odysseus: Do you see, you gods of sea and sky? I conquered Troy. Me Odysseus, a mortal man of flesh and blood and bone and mind! I do not need you now, I can do anything.::Poseidon: Odysseus, why do you defy me?::Odysseus: Who are you?::Poseidon: It is I Poseidon, god of the wine dark sea. You have forfeited for forgetting how I helped you.::Odysseus: Help me? For ten years you played with us as toys. For ten years you let blood spill to your shores.::Poseidon: But it was my serpent who silenced Laocoon or your horse was doomed, yet you refuse to give thanks. You forget, a man is nothing without the gods. You will suffer for this offense. For your arrogance, you will drift on my sea for an eternity, never again will you reach the shores of Ithaca.::Odysseus: You cannot stop me!::Poseidon: You will suffer.
Cyclops: What is it?::Odysseus: It's wine, that's the drink of the gods. Here. Try.::Cyclops: I like it. Another. What is your name?::Odysseus: My name?::Polites: He is the lord of [is silenced before he can reveal Odysseus's identity]::Odysseus: My name is Nobody. No body.::Cyclops: Alright Nobody, in the morning you will tell me more secrets after I eat.
Aeolus: Ha ha ha! Are you surprised? Admit it! Ha ha! I can see you're surprised.::Odysseus: Who are you?::Aeolus: I am Aeolus, God of Wind. This is my island where soft breezes and raging tempests all begin.::Odysseus: Well, I'm honored, but why do you not allow me to drink?::Aeolus: Because I know you, Odysseus, Lord of Ithaca. Do not be afraid. Step through the water. I have something for you. Come along!::Odysseus: You know me?::Aeolus: Everyone knows of Odysseus, the great hero who built the Trojan Horse. But, few Greeks know that you're the only one who can't go home.::Odysseus: Poseidon thinks he can stop me.::Aeolus: Poseidon, Poseidon! Poseidon this, Poseidon that! Poseidon's a bully! He's my cousin, he's arrogant, he's selfish! He forgets that the sea is nothing without the wind, and who's the God of the Wind? Guess who's the God of the Wind... I am.
Odysseus: Is easy to be angry!
They say you're lost
They say you're gone
I call your name
Odysseus
I keep praying
But there's no mean
You brave our souls
I know you'll be back
Odysseus
Your loss creates my pain
You'll drive me to despair
I won't loose you, I swear, My love
One day they'll understand
That day will be the end
No more tears or sorrow
No more pain no more wounds
Only joy
They say you're lost
They say you're gone
I call your name
Odysseus
I keep praying
But there's no mean
You brave our souls
I know you'll be back