No, it's about the Trojan War, and Helen of Troy.
Helen was the wife of the King of... some greek country (it's almost 1am, and I'm tired). Anyways, she left him for the Prince of Troy, who stole her away and sailed off before anyone was the wiser.
So the king of X sent his troops and greatest warrior, Achilles, to fight a war and bring the woman back... more or less. Brad Pitt is Achilles, which I really want to see.
The Illiad and the Oddessy were the two ... poems? Stories? Written by Homer, and both deal with Ulysses and his travels during and after the war, if I remember correctly.
Ulysses had some BAD karma getting home...
-Kid Vid
Item the first.
The name of the king is Agamemnon (spelling?). He
doesn't send his armies. All the kings of that area had tried for the hand of fair Helena (Helen to you english), and had, before she chose one, sworn to each aid he whom she would choose, should it come to war over her.
So when she is coughstolencough by prince Paris of Troy, her love given to him by the Goddess Afrodite, in return for being named "The Most Beautiful", all the "greek" kings, and their collective armies, take the war to Troy. Women had no rights to leave their husbands back then.
Item the second.
Achileus the Peliade (one of his ancestors were named Pelaius of somesuch) is but one of the many greek (and troyan) heroes gathered there. He was particularly blessed by having been made invulnerable to harm, except for on his heels. He ends up being killed by prince Hektor of Troy, (if I recall correctly), after having been making rather a mess of the whole scene, sulking in his tent over a matter with a slave-girl/captured girl, that he wanted and couldn't have.
Ulysses is the person that is otherwise known as Odysseus, after whom the Odessy is named. Basically, the Illiad dealt with the troyan war itself, a siege that lasted ten years, according to the writer, Homer.
Together with its sibling, the Odessy, which describes the voyage home from Troy, as seen by Odysseus, cursed by Poseidon the God of the Seas, and has some rather fantastic elements, it is considered more or less the basics of a classical education.
Infact, the romans so pandered to greek culture, that they claimed (among other stories) that Rome itself had been founded either by Aeinid (spelling?, or one of his decendants, and one of the most fameous roman texts is the Ainiade (spelling?) which is the Roman epic about how their here, who was a prince of troy, escaped from troy, and left for italy.
Thus the Illiad and the Odessy are not parts of the same text, but interconnected epic poems.
Ok, I was going to say something more about this, but I think I've ranted enough for just now.
