Throughout the entire ancient Literature, only two chariots are mentioned to be tied with a knot whose ends were not visible: one, which, at the Gordian Knot of Phrygia, Alexander the Great unties, and the other, with which Priam brings back Hector's body to Troy in the Iliad. Could this be mere coincidence, or is there a connection between them? While gazing from the walls of Troy at the Greek army, beautiful Helen wonders how she doesn't see her two brothers among them — the Dioskouroi, who are long dead. Did she have a breakdown, or is she hinting at someone else?

What is the connection between the sacred epithet of Athena as "Pallas," mentioned by Homer, and the ball dances described in certain episodes of the Odyssey?

We all imagine Odysseus to be around forty-five, at most fifty years old, when he returns to Ithaca. But was he actually much older? Could the other main characters of the epic also be significantly older?

In these and many other, unexpected and seemingly inappropriate or provocative questions, a well-founded answer is provided in the eight studies of this volume.