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1 day ago · Leadership of the Greek cause in the Roumeli region was divided between two rival leaders: a former Klepht (bandit), Odysseas Androutsos; and a wealthy Phanariot Prince, Alexandros Mavrokordatos. Byron used his prestige to attempt to persuade the two rival leaders to come together to focus on defeating the Ottomans. [ 97 ]
5 days ago · However, the discovery was also claimed by the Greek military leader Odysseas Androutsos and by the Swiss scholar Felix Stähelin, and is likely to have originally been accidental. [28] During his service in 1822, he acquired the manuscript of the Chronicle of Anthimos , a history of Athens written by the late eighteenth-century ...
2 days ago · Don’t miss the birthplace of Odysseas Androutsos, a Greek patriot and hero of the War of Independence, as well as the homes of writer Grivas Karavias and Platon Drakoulis, one of Greece’s early socialists.
2 days ago · The Odyssey (/ ˈɒdɪsi /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2][3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books.
Sep 14, 2024 · Odysseus, in Greek legend, the wise and courageous king of Ithaca who is the hero of Homer’s Odyssey. Odysseus’s wanderings and the recovery of his house and kingdom are the central theme of the epic, which also relates how he accomplished the capture of Troy by means of the wooden horse.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 11, 2024 · Of the monsters and mythological creatures Odysseus encounters during his long voyage from Troy to Ithaca, among the fiercest are female. Three of these are Circe, the Sirens and Calypso, who all prove to be difficult and terrifying obstacles to Odysseus’ journey home.
1 day ago · The Intuitive Machines 1 (IM-1, TO2-IM) mission objective was to place a NOVA-C lander, called Odysseus, at crater Malapert A near the south pole of the Moon. The commercially built lander carried five NASA payloads and commercial cargo.
