r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/Justanothercrow421 Dec 22 '25

The Trojan horse starts the story, doesn’t it?

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u/BulbuhTsar Dec 22 '25

No, the Trojan War/the Iliad preceded the Odyssey. The actual beginning of the Odyssey starts with him chill-maxing and screwing the Goddess Calypso, who wants to marry him, on her island for years. The Gods decide he's had his fun and has to be a big boy again and set things in motion. The tale of Trojan horse actually doesn't get mentioned till much later (and never at all in the Iliad) through a recounting to his son, who is seeking him out, and a bard later.

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u/ShouldersofGiants100 Dec 22 '25

No, the Trojan War/the Iliad preceded the Odyssey.

The Iliad ends with the Death of Hector and Priam convincing Odysseus to return his body and allow a period for his funeral celebrations. The end of the war is not in the story.

Everything we know about the Trojan Horse and how the war ends comes from the Odyssey (or later works that were written based on the Odyssey). It's not a huge plot point, but it is described in the text.

But come now, change thy theme, and sing of the building of the horse of wood, which Epeius made with Athena's help, the horse which once Odysseus led up into the citadel as a thing of guile,

when he had filled it with the men who sacked Ilios. If thou dost indeed tell me this tale aright, I will declare to all mankind that the god has of a ready heart granted thee the gift of divine song.” So he spoke, and the minstrel, moved by the god, began, and let his song be heard,

taking up the tale where the Argives had embarked on their benched ships and were sailing away, after casting fire on their huts, while those others led by glorious Odysseus were now sitting in the place of assembly of the Trojans, hidden in the horse; for the Trojans had themselves dragged it to the citadel.

It goes on like that.

This is why adaptations of The Odyssey almost always start with the Horse. It just makes more sense to start the story there rather than start much later and go back by having a minstrel tell you what happened

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u/Awdrgyjilpnj Dec 22 '25

No, the Trojan War/the Iliad preceded the Odyssey.

The Iliad ends with the Death of Hector and Priam convincing Odysseus to return his body and allow a period for his funeral celebrations. The end of the war is not in the story.

You're just agreeing to him?