. dinjured Troy most, and answered, Odysseus. Inthe Lesser Iliad the judgment is given withoutdesign by two Trojan women conversing. He issaid by some to have devised the stratagem ofthe wooden horse, and he was one of the heroesconcealed within it. He is also said to havetaken part in carrying off the palladium. ( ii. 164 ; Quint. Smyrn. x. 354.) But themost celebrated part of his story consists ofhis adventures after the destruction of Troy,which form the subject of the Homeric poemcalled after him, the Odyssey. After the
. dinjured Troy most, and answered, Odysseus. Inthe Lesser Iliad the judgment is given withoutdesign by two Trojan women conversing. He issaid by some to have devised the stratagem ofthe wooden horse, and he was one of the heroesconcealed within it. He is also said to havetaken part in carrying off the palladium. ( ii. 164 ; Quint. Smyrn. x. 354.) But themost celebrated part of his story consists ofhis adventures after the destruction of Troy,which form the subject of the Homeric poemcalled after him, the Odyssey. After the cap-ture of Troy he set out on his voyage home,but was overtaken by a storm and thrown uponthe coast of Ismarus, a town of the Cicones, inThrace, N. of the island of Lemnos. He plun-dered the town, but several of his men werecut off by the Cicones. Thence he was drivenby an N. wind towards Malea and to the Loto-phagi on the coast of Libya. Some of his com-panions were so much delighted with the tasteof the lotus that they wanted to remain in the ODYSSEUS 617. Odysseus offering wine to the Cyclops. I From a statuettein the Vatican.) country, but Odysseus compelled them to em- I the sheep which the Cyclops let out of hisbark again, and continued his voyage. In one cave. In this way he reached his ship. Theday he reached the goat-island, situated N. of [ Cyclops implored his father, Poseidon, to avengethe country of the Lotophagi. He there left him, and henceforth the god of the sea pursuedbehind eleven ships, and with one he sailed to the wandering king with implacable enmity. (Od. i. 68, ix. 527.) Others represent the deathof Palamedes as the cause of Poseidons anger.[Palaieedes.] Odysseus next arrived at theisland of Aeolus; and the god on his departuregave him a bag of winds, which were to carryhim home; but the companions of Odysseusopened the bag, and the winds escaped, where-upon the ships were driven back to the islandof Aeolus, who indignantly refused all furtherassistanc
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