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The journeys of the Greek leaders other than Odysseus were described in an epic entitled Nostoi (meaning “Returns” or “Homecoming”), which is now lost. Only a brief summary of this poem exists and does not mention Odysseus. Nostoi is the root of our word nostalgia, or homesickness.

The Iliad accepts violence as a permanent factor in human life and accepts it without sentimentality, for it is just as sentimental to pretend that war does not have its monstrous ugliness as it is to deny that it has its own strange and fatal beauty, a power, which can call out in men resources of endurance, courage and self-sacrifice that peacetime, to our sorrow and loss, can rarely command.

The seeds of the war grew from a dispute between three jealous goddesses, Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite.


An important part of this myth is the tradition of xenia, or guest-friendship, which the Greeks valued. Hospitality was always offered to a guest. Both guest and host were bound to help each other. Menelaus trusted Paris completely. However, Paris broke this sacred bond when he kidnapped Helen.