Odysseus takes a tip from both his wily grandpa and Penelope's chamber-pot. He falls in love, and the adventure begins.
Hear the legends surrounding the siege of Troy & the great god Achilles
More infoOdysseus takes a tip from both his wily grandpa and Penelope's chamber-pot. He falls in love, and the adventure begins.
Who is the sinister one-eyed man? Why is Achilles dressed in women's clothes? And where is Troy?
The siege of Troy starts well enough - until the Greeks get bored and begin to quarrel.
Achilles is niggled when Trojan spears make a six foot hedgehog out of his best chum. Odysseus persuades him to take revenge.
The Greek army chooses a new hero, and Odysseus takes Diomedes down a sewer on a secret mission.
Odysseus develops a brilliant new weapon, and the prime minister makes her last, fatal, mistake.
The Cyclops traps the Greeks in his cave and gets ready for a tasty kebab. But it's one in the eye for him when his sheep are stolen.
With half their colleagues eaten by cannibals, the men decide to turn vegetarian. But they still eat like pigs!
Odysseus meets old friends, and listens to the world's most dangerous music.
It's bad enough for the Greeks having to face the dog and frog monsters. But the final straw comes when their sandwiches run out.
On the way home Odysseus loses his clothes but finds some friends.
After 20 long years, Odysseus returns home. But no welcome awaits him.
If Odysseus wants to live happily ever after, one final heroic deed remains to be done.