This reluctance was defeated by Palamedes, the envoy of Agamemnon, who appeared in Ithaca to remind Odysseus of the oath. Palamedes forces Odysseus, and Odysseus Achilles And since Odysseus was one of those who prefer quiet life at home to any glory that war might give, he was reluctant to join the army. But when war threatened, he was forced, on account of the same oath, to join the coalition that gathered in the harbor of Aulis in Boeotia under the command of Agamemnon. This is how Odysseus, thanks to the the oath, won Penelope. But later the seducer Paris abducted Helen and so the kings of Hellas, being bound by The Oath of Tyndareus, were forced, after being summoned by Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon, to join the alliance that sailed to Troy with the purpose of obtaining, either peacefully or by force, the restoration of Helen and the property. So when Menelaus won the hand of Helen, all accepted it in virtue of the oath, and thus Odysseus married Penelope, who was the prize of such a wise advice. When Tyndareus agreed, promising to help him, Odysseus told him to exact an oath from all the SUITORS OF HELEN that they would defend the favored bridegroom against any wrong that might be done him in respect of his marriage. King Tyndareus of Sparta, Helen's father or stepfather, feared then that the preference of one suitor might provoke the enmity of the others, and so Odysseus promised him that, if Tyndareus would help him to win the hand of Penelope, he would suggest a way by which there would be no dispute among the SUITORS. When Helen was to be married, many SUITORS came from the whole of Hellas, wishing to win her hand, and among them came Odysseus. On his return to Ithaca he killed the many SUITORS OF PENELOPE, who had been wasting his property during the last years of his long absence, and for this massacre he was condemned to exile by King Neoptolemus of Epirus. Like other ACHAEAN LEADERS, Odysseus was confronted, after the sack of Troy, with both a hard return and sedition at home. He is remembered for having invented the construction of the WOODEN HORSE, the stratagem that made it possible to take Troy. Odysseus was king of Ithaca and leader of the Cephallenians against Troy. Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fadesįor ever and for ever when I move." (Tennyson 1809-1892. Myself not least, but honoured of them all Īnd drunk delight of battle with my peers, Much have I seen and known: cities of menĪnd manners, climates, councils, governments, "… For nothing is greater or better than this, when man and wife dwell in a home in one accord, a great grief to their foes and a joy to their friends but they know it best themselves." (Odysseus to Nausicaa. Yet he never wrought iniquity at all to any man." ( Penelope to the herald Medon 5. "Odysseus wrought no wrong in deed or word to any man in the land, as the wont is of divine kings-one man they hate and another they love. For beyond the ten long years spent at Troy he shall drag out other ten and then come to his country all alone…" ( Cassandra. "Unhappy Odysseus, he does not know the sufferings that await him or how these ills I and my Phrygians endure shall one day seem to him precious as gold.
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