Our alternative title today is Goodbye Paris. Either way, you can probably guess how this is going to go. But before we say farewell to everyone's favourite princess-kidnapper, let's see how his ex-wife feels about saving him! I'm sure there will be no hard feelings there... Right? Please? Oenone?

Sources for this episode:

• The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2015), Philoctetes (online) (Accessed 24/06/2025).
• Quintus Smyrnaeus (1934), The Fall of Troy. Translated by A. S. Way. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd.
• Author unknown, Google Maps (online) (Accessed 06/07/2025).
• Author unknown, Philoctetes (date unknown), Story of Philoctetes (online) (Accessed 24/06/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Antenor (online) (Accessed 24/06/2025).

Fire sound effect (clipped and some fading added second time):

• https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/fire-sound-334130/. Free for use under Pixabay Content Licence (https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/) (Accessed 07/07/2025).

Eurypylus has been killing like there's no tomorrow- and it's up to a boy from Scyros to sort it out. Let's introduce Neoptolemus son of Achilles onto the world stage and watch him wreak havoc while the gods dance in between the lines.

Sources for this episode:

• Quintus Smyrnaeus (1934), The Fall of Troy. Translated by A. S. Way. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd.
• Smith; W. (ed.) (1867), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. In Three Volumes (Vol. 1-3.). Boston: Little, Brown, And Company.
• Author unknown, Google Maps (online) (Accessed 23/06/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Peleus (online) (Accessed 23/06/2025).

Priam reaches out for help to yet another ally- this time the grandson of Heracles. Meanwhile, over in the Greek camp- or Greel if you believe Vince's mangled pronounciation- Ajax and Odysseus get into an argument over who gets Achilles' armour. I'm sure that will go swimmingly...

Sources for this episode:

• Marks, A. and Tingay, G. (date unknown), Romans. London: Usborne Publishing.

• Quintus Smyrnaeus (1934), The Fall of Troy. Translated by A. S. Way. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd.
• Smith; W. (ed.) (1867), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. In Three Volumes (Vol. 1-3.). Boston: Little, Brown, And Company.

• Author unknown, Johns Hopkins Medicine (date unknown), Cholecystitis (online) (Accessed 21/05/2025).
• Author unknown, NIH News in Health (date unknown), Can You Recognize a Heart Attack or Stroke? (online) (Accessed 21/05/2025).
• Author unknown, Theoi (date unknown), Quintus Symrnaeus 6 (online) (Accessed 21/05/2025).

• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Ajax the Great (online) Accessed 21/05/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Astyoche (online) Accessed 21/05/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Oileus (online) Accessed 21/05/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Phobos (online) Accessed 21/05/2025).
• Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Teucer (online) Accessed 21/05/2025).