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Philosophy & Religion
Achilles
Achilles was the greatest warrior of the Greek forces at Troy, whose heroic exploits and tragic vulnerability became central to Western conceptions of heroism, honor, and the human condition.
Philosophy & ReligionOdysseus
Odysseus, the resourceful king of Ithaca, is the cunning architect of the Trojan Horse whose ten-year homeward voyage after the fall of Troy becomes the archetypal quest for self-knowledge in Western literature.
HistoryMycenaean Greece
Mycenaean Greece (c. 1750–1050 BC) was the first advanced, palatial civilization on the Greek mainland, whose warrior-kings, Linear B archives, and monumental architecture laid the groundwork for later Greek culture.