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Part two of two in this miniseries based on Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," a tale of Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy. The program begins with Odysseus in Hades entering Tiresias's realm. After much struggle, Odysseus reaches the blind prophet. He hands over the ram as a sacrifice as Tiresias tells him that he is a clever man but not a wise one. Tiresias reveals to Odysseus that the answer to getting home has always been in front of his eyes. He tells him to follow the constellation Orion's brightest star to the insatiable monster Scylla and the deadly tidal pool Charybdis. Then, Odysseus's dead mother Anticleia appears, explaining that she took her own life out of grief at her son's disappearance. She tells Odysseus to hurry home to Penelope. Emerging from Hades, Odysseus find his men awaiting him. In Ithaca, the portly farmer Elatus joins the growing number of suitors at Penelope's home, eliciting derision from the others. Penelope tells Telemachus that she believes Odysseus is still alive. Furt

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Eurymachus

Set of mythological Greek characters

The name Eurymachus or Eurymachos (; Ancient Greek: Εὐρύμαχος Eurúmakhos) is attributed to the following individuals:

Mythology

  • Eurymachus, son of Hermes and father of Eriboea, mother of the Aloadae.[1]
  • Eurymachus, a prince of the Phlegyes who attacked and destroyed Thebes after the death of Amphion and Zethus.[2]
  • Eurymachus, the fourth suitor of Princess Hippodamia of Pisa, Elis. Like the other suitors of the latter, he was killed by the bride's father, King Oenomaus.[3]
  • Eurymachus, son of Antenor[4] and Theano. He was the brother of Crino,[5]Acamas,[6][7]Agenor,[8][9]Antheus,[10]Archelochus,[11][12]Coön,[13]Demoleon,[14]Glaucus,[15]Helicaon,[16]Iphidamas,[17]Laodamas,[18][19]Laodocus,[20]Medon,[21]Polybus,[8][22] and Thersilochus.[21] Eurymachus was engaged to King Priam'
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    A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
    William Smith, Ed.

    Eury'machus

    （*Eu)ru/maxos), grandson of another Eurymachus and son of Leontiades, the Theban commander at Thermopylae, who led his men over to Xerxes. Herodotus in his account of the father's conduct relates, that the son in after time was killed by the Plataeans, when at the head of four hundred men and occupying their city. (Hdt. 7.233.) This is, no doubt, the same event which Thucydides (2.1-7) records as the first overt act of the Peloponnesian war, B. C. 431. The number of men was by his account only a little more than three hundred, nor was Eurymachus the actual commander, but the enterprise had been negotiated by parties in Plataea through him, and the conduct of it would therefore no doubt be entrusted very much to him. The family was clearly one of the great aristocratical houses. Thucydides (2.2) calls Eurymachus "a man of the greatest power in Thebes." [A.H.C]
    William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London. John Murray: print

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