How People Lived in the Time of Ulysses

When Ulysses was a young man, he wanted to marry a princess. There were many kings in Greece at that time and this is how they lived, each king had his own kingdom, with his main town, walled with such huge walls that some people thought they had been built by giants. Some of the walls are still standing even now, as you are reading this, each king had his own palace, with courtyards and a long feasting hall. When they had meals, the King and Queen would sit on their cedar and ivory thrones at the farthest end of the hall. The King and Queen slept in their bedroom, the princesses had their chambers upstairs, and the young, unmarried princes had their rooms built separate in the courtyard.

The Boyhood of Ulysses

Once, on a beautiful island called Ithaca, a baby called Ulysses was born. His own people first called him Odysseus but the they changed it to Ulysses. When he was older he was very strong and a very good runner, so he won lots of races and stuff. Once his father and him and their dogs went on a hunting trip to look for a wild boar, the dogs soon picked up the scent and were on the boars trail until they found it. It was hiding behind some bushes, so Ulysses ran up and was just about to kill it, when the boar drove it’s sharp tusk into his thigh, but missed the bone. So Ulysses stuck his spear clean through the boar shoulder and killed it. He sang a magic song over his wound and the blood ceased to flow and soon he was quite healed of his wound, even though there was a long white scar.