Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses is a video game released in 2000, developed by In Utero and Cryo Interactive. The game uses the Cryogen engine, with characters who are able to move in real time 3D, in a pre-rendered environment. The game's universe stays faithful to Homer's the Odyssey, including its characters, Poseidon, Zeus, Cerberus and the Cyclops. Pénelope, who has had no news of Ulysses for many years, requests that Heritias set off in search of his childhood friend. Heritias first goes to Troy, the last place the leader of the Achaean troops was
The Songs of the Kings The Songs of the Kings The Songs of Kings was a novel published in 2002 by Barry Unsworth that retells the story of "Iphigenia at Aulis" told by the Greek tragic poet Euripides. The novel is set just before the start of the battle of Troy. The Greek army under King Agamemnon is stuck on the island of Aulis en route to Troy because of a mysterious dying down of the winds. The army is restless and rumor and gossip fly around seeking a reason for the becalming as the men gamble and squabble while they wait and Odysseus connives