Who was Odysseus? | Early Life of the King of Ithaca

We know him as a great hero of the Trojan war and the protagonist of legendary adventures described in the Odyssey. But who was really Odysseus? In this episode, we talk about the early life of the king of Ithaca.

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[hueym.]

Great video, Greetings from Greece 💯🇬🇷💕

[HistorywithCy]

Great episode my friend, love the animations, especially at 5:25. it's like a cinematic movie! Looking forward to more!

[FrogInPot]

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[teemoleon]

Just found your channel. Great content keep it up

[st.george]

Really, given the significance of Sparta and it's king, you should include it on your map. The boy goes there for help. In the story, Ithaca was an island to the west of kephalonia, recent theories suggest it was what is now the Paliki peninsula which at the time was cut off by a channel in the narrowing. I am only at 2:07 but I will watch the whole video. There is a good study on this, a book and youtube channel called "Odysseus unbound", any who enjoy Odysseus should check that out. I have subscribed to your channel. I see you include Sparta later in the video.

[Momo_Minomo]

Loved the video! I've really gotten into classic mythology, especially The Odyssey, thanks to Epic: The Musical and this was very informative. Though I think the "enemy encounter" sound was loud enough to scare 3 years off my life lol.

[LOKgr]

Hello from Greece!!
Great content...!!
Keep on going!!!

[sophrapsune]

A Mycenaean royal tholos tomb was excavated at Tzannata near Poros in Kephalonia in 1991.
It would seem that this Mycenaean centre of power is the best candidate for being Odysseus’ Ithaka.

[PopTrashInc]

Excellent.... just discovered your mini documentaries. The use of the map is very visual and says more than volumes of text. Again...Excellent

[mixtecobajo]

Fabulous Chronicle🔥Bravo🏅Thank you🌎 for sharing 🌅

[LisaAshford-su]

What a great history teacher/ Professor if you are already not one, and really amazing fun ways to learn importance

[St.SebArL]

Great video, I’ve always found it confusing how he supposedly only ruled over the tiny island of Ithaca (modern island with that name)

[cassiecraft]

Very good work. Thank You. At first I thought that this would be a fictious story, but I am pleased as it has substance, and is further leading me to believe that Troy was real. I am beginning to believe that The Iliad is a song of victory. Like The Star Spangled Banner.

[IblameBlame]

What do you make of the hypothesis that the Ithaca of Odysseus is a different place from the island of Ithaca because it doesn't match the description in Homer's Odyssey?

[Logan-zlxi]

I thought Odysseus wasn't real but boy was I wrong, thanks for explaining :)

[oskareriksson]

It's particular how in the odissey we can read all the elements of the bronze age and the mycenaean civilization collapse, not only there, in all the nostoi: the kings returning from the war, find a unstable political situation, many are overthrown, others are forced to flee, Ulysses can't come back home, and when he return "late, and badly, on a foreign vessel, lost the fleet, lost the companions" he find his palace occupied by the nobles who wanna take his place, and even marry his wife (the new oligarchy that push to kick out the old kings?... Local revolts? In several mycenaean palace there are tracks of fire, not only from outside attacks but also from inside, to the granaries for example, the peoples? And the mass grave who someone tell is been found in mycenae? Is that true? With 30 skeletons or so? It fit vaguely with the agamennon and his companions end), in Homer world seems that the power come from marring the queen too, agamennon and menelaus take the kingdom marring the daughters of the king of Sparta, same the nobles with odisseus tried to, I m not saying Odysseus, agamennon, Achilles, really existed, absolutely, the sagas are a mix of historical and fantastical facts, but the context, the environment, made of palaces, mutual diplomatic relations between the kings (its clear by the complex of roads and by the majestity of the palace that whoever lived in mycenae was the most powerful of the kings...), that the dimension, the environment, is historical. Surely Homer put in it some element of his age, he wasn't an archeologist, but a story teller, but these legends are the echoes of a lost memory I guess. If you can soon or later talk about the nearby Italian and Adriatic cultures that interacted with the achaeans, like the thapsos culture in Sicily, a mycenaean outpost maybe, or the terramare culture in Italy, that on the amber road did commerce the amber to the mycenaean too from the Adriatic sea and the balkans. All these cultures coming back from the Neolithic Italy heritage, extinguished in the same years of the mycenaean ones, like if a death plague arrived and exterminated them all, depopulating the villages, and their regions, the terramare culture area in the po River shores will reach this amount of populations only 1000 years later in Roman times...

[peterroberts]

Odysseus is the Only Man Achilles Considered an Equal....I’m a amateur history buff, Great Channel👏👏👍👍

[georgcorfu]

8.28 Ίcaros, with the stress on the first syllable.

[suriyasuresh]

So this is what Sir Christopher Nolan's next film could be

[chrisernst]

to everybody who dont know pelasgians are greek but they spoke a non greek language