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...out more about The Open University's Classical Studies courses Odysseus is the king of Ithaca, and one of the Greek heroes who joined in the Greek expedition to Troy, leaving his wife Penelope and infant son Telemachus behind. He has a reputation for clever speaking and cunning; the ruse of the Trojan Horse by means of which the Greeks finally sacked Troy after ten years...

...out an exceptionally good and selfless deed, for example a soldier who risks his life to save a comrade, or a passer-by who pulls a child out of a river. In films and comic books, superheroes use their power to save the world from dastardly villains who want to destroy it. To the ancient Greeks, however, heroes were not necessarily good so much as larger than life, and...