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listening. Terms apply. Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

Tell me, O'Mews, of that ingenious hero

who traveled far and wide after he sacked the famous town of Troy.

Those words probably sound familiar to you, at least those of you who didn't sleep through high school English.

These are the first lines of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey.

In 800 BCE, Homer wrote down the story of an ancient Greek's incredible

journey to find his way home. Two thousand years later, another Greek went on his own journey

to see if he could find Odysseus, the king of old, right, in his own backyard.

The time described in the Odyssey is what historians call the Mycenaean period.

Mycenaean Greece was made up of several distinct, sophisticated kingdoms that shared a common

culture and language. According to Homer, Odysseus was the ruler of a Mycenaean kingdom

called Ithaca. In Homer's previous poem, the Iliad, Odysseus led his troops into battle with the rest of the Greeks

to sack the city of Troy.

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