Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 11: The Pirate Queen

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All: 1: The Golden Slagheap

Episode 1: The Golden Slagheap - Odysseus takes a tip from both his wily grandpa and Penelope's chamber-pot. H...

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 2: The Burly Nun

Who is the sinister one-eyed man? Why is Achilles dressed in women's clothes? And where is Troy?

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 3: The Colour of Birds' Eggs

The siege of Troy starts well enough - until the Greeks get bored and begin to quarrel.

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 4: Achilles' Heel

Achilles is niggled when Trojan spears make a six foot hedgehog out of his best chum. Odysseus persuades him to ta...

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 5: Revenge of the White Goddess

The Greek army chooses a new hero, and Odysseus takes Diomedes down a sewer on a secret mission.

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 6: Getting In

Odysseus develops a brilliant new weapon, and the prime minister makes her last, fatal, mistake.

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 7: The Fat Batsman

The Cyclops traps the Greeks in his cave and gets ready for a tasty kebab. But it's one in the eye for him when h...

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 8: The Wind and the Wallabies

With half their colleagues eaten by cannibals, the men decide to turn vegetarian. But they still eat l...

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 9: The Faces of the Dead

Odysseus meets old friends, and listens to the world's most dangerous music.

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 10: Meat

It's bad enough for the Greeks having to face the dog and frog monsters. But the final straw comes when their sandwiches ru...

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 11: The Pirate Queen

On the way home Odysseus loses his clothes but finds some friends.

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 12: Beggar in the Rubbish Heap

After 20 long years, Odysseus returns home. But no welcome awaits him…

Odysseus The Greatest Hero Of Them All | 13: The Showdown

If Odysseus wants to live happily ever after, one final heroic deed remains to be done.