Watch King Nestor Recount the Horrors of the Trojan War to Odysseus's Son Telemachus
Nestor, king of Pylos, tells Telemachus (Odysseus's son) about the Trojan War.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn about the reunion of Penelope and Odysseus in this excerpt from a dramatization of Homer's Odyssey, Book XXIII, where, assured at last that it is her husband, Odysseus, who stands before her, Penelope explains her earlier reluctance to greet him.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn from classicist Gilbert Highet and these dramatizations about three themes that tie together Homer's Odyssey. This 1965 video is a production of Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.“Tell me, Muse…”Media Editors: Meg Matthias , Lee Goldstein
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Watch as Homer plunges the reader into the saga of Odysseus's return from the war.
Transcript
NESTOR: My boy, well I recall the misery that we,
we gallant Greeks, endured so long in the land of Troy.
There lies bold Ajax buried, there Achilles lies,
and there my own dear son, Antilochus the brave.
For nine long years we struggled to destroy the Trojans
with every stratagem: God made our victory hard.
And when at last we captured Priam's lofty city
and sailed away (to be wrecked or storm-tossed on the voyage),
why, then, even then, God made our homecoming a horror!
we gallant Greeks, endured so long in the land of Troy.
There lies bold Ajax buried, there Achilles lies,
and there my own dear son, Antilochus the brave.
For nine long years we struggled to destroy the Trojans
with every stratagem: God made our victory hard.
And when at last we captured Priam's lofty city
and sailed away (to be wrecked or storm-tossed on the voyage),
why, then, even then, God made our homecoming a horror!