Greek Victorys In The Trojan War

In stories, such as The Iliad by Homer and The Life of Themistocles by Plutarch, two Greek characters were highly recognized as crucial to the Greek victories. In the Iliad, the character Odysseus took a great role in the victories that led to winning the long 10 years Trojan War. In the Life of Themistocles, Plutarch describes how Themistocles also played a large role in the Greek victory in defeating the Persians. These two leaders, in comparison, were both men of intellect. They often used many strategies that consisted of persuasion and trickery. In contrast, they were different in terms of their motivation behind being leaders From the beginning of their early life, it is easily distinguishable how different these two characters were and how different they were going to be leaders. Themistocles was born …show more content…
Odysseus wanted to defeat the Trojans because he actually wanted to win the battle. Odysseus had a lot of ideas and became part of the action that took place during the Trojan War. As a soldier, Odysseus had at first convinced Achilles to join the Greeks to fight the Trojan War, as he was told that Achilles was an essential part of the team to be able to defeat Troy. The Greeks were later told by Kalchos that the Greeks would gain victory if three things were done (Iliad Book 2). Essentially, Odysseus did all the things that had to be done, however, the Greeks still had not defeated the Trojans which led to his idea. Lastly, his persuasion helped end the Trojan war when he had to idea of the wooden horse, his idea was to hide warriors inside the wooden horse to go in Troy and attack everyone in the city. His plan was a success, the Trojans at the end were mostly slaughtered (The Odyssey Book 4). In other words, he persuaded his people that his idea was going to help destroy the Trojans, to then build the horse and trick the Trojans into thinking