Despite the fact that the king was in the middle of hosting wedding festivities for his children, he commands his servants to welcome the strangers in and provide them with food and drink. Why?

The first is, of course, Odysseus the King of Ithaca who travels to Troy in order to take part in the ten-year skirmish to return Helen to her husband Menelaus after she was taken by the Trojan ...

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

Menelaus and Paris meet in single combat. Achilles still has the hump and refuses to fight. So his cousin Patroclus takes the superhero's special armour and returns ...