The stories featured in Greaking Out are original adaptations of classic Greek myths.

This week's story features an absolute bummer escape of death,

ambiguous characters, the Homeric expanded universe,

war, living in the big city, and a giant wooden horse.

This episode is about war, so skip it if you've had enough of that lately.

Well Oracle, it has been a journey so far.

We've done a speed run through the epic cycle,

and today is the finale, the day the war ends.

The epic cycle refers to a collection of epic poetry that details the Trojan War,

sometimes including the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Okay, and the Odyssey is really about Odysseus, right?

And we barely scratch the surface there.

Exactly.

The epic cycle also includes the telegany,

some of which we discussed in our episode about Cersei.

Okay, good to know we still have more to cover in future seasons,

but back to the war, things are looking pretty bad for all parties involved.

The Trojans just watched Achilles kill their beloved Prince Hector.

They were devastated and demoralized and really sick of this never-ending war.

And the Greeks had problems of their own.

They had a power hungry leader who was unwilling to give up the fight,

a grieve-stricken Achilles who was still mourning the loss of Patrick Lus

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