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The Cicones (also Kikones) were a Thracian tribe, whose stronghold in the time of Odysseus was the city of Ismara (or Ismaros), located at the foot of mount Ismara, on the south coast of Thrace. They are mentioned in book two of the Iliad as having joined the war on the side of the Trojans, being led by Euphemos. In book nine of the Odyssey, Odysseus and his men take Ismara by surprise and slay most of the Ciconian men they come across,while burning Ciconian towns and taking Ciconian women but later Ciconian reinf

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In Greek mythology, Mentor (sometimes Mentês) was the son of Alcumus and, in his old age, a friend of Odysseus. When Odysseus left for the Trojan War he placed Mentor in charge of his son, Telemachus, and of his palace. When Athena visited Telemachus she took the disguise of Mentor to hide herself from Telemachus' mother's suitors. (See Odyssey II, 255; 267.) The first recorded modern usage of the term can be traced to a book entitled "Les Adventures de Telemaque", by the French writer Francois Fenelon(Roberts 1999). In ...

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Trojan War - Armies on the Greek side Achaeans. See Catalogue of Ships Abantes Arcadia Aetolia Athens and Salamis Argos and Tiryns Boebeans (Thessaly) Boeotia Crete Dulichium Elis Elone (Thessaly) Enienes Iolcus (Thessaly) Ithaca Locris Magnesia Meliboea Minyans Mycenae and Corinth Myrmidones of Argos Oechalia Ormenius Pherae Phylacia Phocia Pylos Rhodes

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Odysseus - The Ciconians. After Odysseus and his men depart from Troy, they are greeted by friendly and calm waters. The ships near land and Eurylochus, convincing Odysseus that the gods were on their side, told him to go ashore and loot the nearby city. The crew had landed in Ciconia. The city was not at all protected and all of the inhabitants fled without a fight into the nearby mountains. Odysseus and his men looted the city and robbed it of all its goods. Odysseus wisely told the men to board the ships quick ...

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Trojan War - Peleus and Thetis the apple and the judgment. See also Judgement of Paris. According to Greek mythology, Zeus became king of the gods by overthrowing his father Cronus; Cronus in turn had overthrown his father Ouranos. Zeus came to learn of a prophecy that he himself would be overthrown by a son of his. (Within the extent of Greek myth, though, this never happened). Another prophecy said of the sea-nymph Thetis, with whom Zeus had an affair, that her son would be greater th ...

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The ghost of Achilles appeared to the survivors of the war, demanding Polyxena, the Trojan princess, be sacrificed before anybody could leave. Neoptolemus did so. According to the Odyssey, Menelaus's fleet was blown by storms to Crete and Egypt where they were unable to sail away because the wind was calm. Menelaus had to catch Proteus, a shape-shifting sea god to find out what sacrifices to which gods he would have to make to guarantee safe passage. Proteus also told Menelaus that he was destined for Elysium (Heaven) after his death. ...

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