Every Historical Character in Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Assassin's Creed Odyssey gives players the chance to meet the historical and mythical figures who shaped the ancient Greek world.

"Assassin's Creed Odyssey" is set in ancient Greece, and there are no less than 23 real historical figures in the game. Some of the historical characters in Odyssey are secondary characters who hire mercenaries to complete small quests, but others have a major impact on the game's storyline. Mercenaries can even schmooze with some of ancient Greece's most famous playwrights and philosophers at the grand symposium. Here's every character in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, a real person from history.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is expansive, allowing the player to sail to many known locations from ancient Greek history and mythology. Along the way, the mercenaries met many familiar characters from Greek history. However, some of Assassin's Creed Odyssey's live-action characters are more historically accurate than others.

Alkibiades (Alcibiades)

In real life, Alcibiades was a prominent Athenian statesman and general who played an important role in the second half of the Peloponnesian War. He was notorious for being ambitious and opportunistic, and even defected many times. In The Odyssey, Alkibiades is portrayed as a flamboyant and hedonistic man who often needs the help of mercenaries to solve morally questionable (if not illegal) problems Task. This may have been inspired by the real-world history behind the Athenian statesman.

Archidamos of Sparta (Archidamus II)

Archidamus II was the king of Sparta who established a thirty-year peace between Athens and Sparta, ending the First Peloponnesian War. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey's version, Archiedamus' traditionalist views partly lead to Deimos being thrown from Mount Teyetos at the beginning of the game. Later, his co-rulers tried to frame him as a member of the Cult of Order, but the mercenaries helped prove Archiedamus' innocence.

Aristophanes

Aristophanes was a playwright known as the "Father of Comedy", whose plays are said to have recreated life in ancient Athens more convincingly than any other writer. In the Odyssey, the mercenaries first meet Aristophanes at the symposium of Pericles, where he is in conflict with Sophocles.

Later in the game, Aristophanes enlists the help of the mercenaries to investigate Hermiopus' ties to Cleon and the Cult of Kosmos. It's hard to say how accurate the Assassin's Creed Odyssey character is to the historical figure Aristophanes, other than being a Greek playwright. However, certain liberties were clearly taken to pit the characters against Odyssey's narrative.

Aspasia

Historically, Aspasia was known as an influential lover and companion Pericles during his leadership of Athens. She was a friend of many influential artists, philosophers and politicians, including Socrates. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Aspasia is revealed to be the leader of the Cult of Kosmos, and the mercenaries must decide whether to kill her.

Thus, historical accuracy regarding Aspasia depends largely on the choices AC Odyssey players decide to make.

Brasidas

Brasidas was the most distinguished Spartan officer of the first decade of the Peloponnesian War, known for his Spartan courage and Athenian wisdom. In Odyssey, Brasidas first helps the mercenaries destroy Korinthia's Monger warehouse, and then helps them find her mother and destroy the Cult of Order.

Demokritos (Democritus)

In real life, Democritus was the philosopher who helped invent the atomic theory. He has been called the "philosopher who laughs," due to his "emphasis on the value of 'joy'," according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He also maintains this demeanor in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which means the game tries to be as true to his personality as possible.

In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, mercenaries Hired by Demokritos (spelling in the game) to help him collect experimental materials so he can impress the woman he loves. Unfortunately, the robbers attacked and killed the woman shortly before he and the mercenaries could reach her.

Demosthenes

Considered one of the greatest Athenian orators and chroniclers of his day, Demosthenes played a major role in the Athenian uprising against Alexander the Great. In the Odyssey, Demosthenes stands beneath the statue of Athena bemoaning the city's lack of action against the Spartans, and hires mercenaries to kill the Spartan general and bring him their seal.

Euripides

Euripides is one of only three ancient Greek tragic playwrights whose plays survive. Medea, Hippolytus and Dionysus is one of his most famous works.

In this version of Assassin's Creed, the mercenary meets Euripides at the symposium of Pericles, where he converses with Aristophanes. The player then uses wine to extract information from him about the whereabouts of the mercenary mother.

Herodotos (Herodotus)

Herodotus is considered the first true historian. He was an author and geographer who traveled the Greco-Persian world collecting stories for "History," a book now believed to be the first and the most important historical chronicle of ancient Greek life. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Herodotus accompanies the mercenaries on their adventures and documents their ordeal, a neat reference to his role as real-world historian.

Hippokrates (Hippocrates)

Known as the "Father of Medicine," Hippocrates revolutionized ancient Greek medicine and for the first time established it as distinct from religion and philosophy. The "Hippocratic Oath" sworn by new doctors is named after him.

In the story of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, mercenaries help Hippocrates practice medicine despite the opposition of the priest of Asclepius. So while his character may not be exactly what Hippocrates did in real life, it's a good indication of his love of medicine.

Kleon (Cleon)

Creon was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War, known for his opposition to Pericles and his hatred of the nobility. After the death of Pericles, Creon came to power, and his aggressive policy towards Sparta led to war and his demise. In this version of the character in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Kleon is the sage of the Cult of Order, and the mercenaries kill him in battle. This means he is not very historically accurate, although there are some like feature.

Leonidas (Leonidas I)

Leonidas I was the king of Sparta who led a Greek army (including the legendary 300 Spartans) in their final stand against the Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the character Leonidas is the grandfather of the mercenaries who carry his broken spear. His disdain for the Cosmic Cult is the reason they target the Mercenary Family.

AC Odyssey: Pausanias

In real life, Pausanias was king of Sparta during the Peloponnesian and Corinthian Wars. For his ineffective leadership during the latter period, he was deposed and sentenced to death, although he escaped and spent the rest of his life in exile in Tegea.

Perikles (Pericles)

Historically, Pericles is best known as a general during the Golden Age of Athens. His promotion of art and literature earned Athens a reputation as the educational and cultural center of the ancient Greek world. He was also responsible for the construction of the Parthenon.

In Odyssey, the mercenaries attend a symposium at Perikles' home to gather information about their mother, and later in the Assassin's Creed games, Perikles is murdered by Deimos for the Cult of Order. this is very different from what What actually happened to Pericles, he died of the plague rather than being killed by anyone.

Phidias

Phidias was the sculptor (and close friend of Pericles) who built the statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the character Phidias is targeted by a cosmic cult because of his friendship with Pericles, and the mercenaries are tasked with helping him escape Athens. In fact, records indicate that Phidias died while in captivity.

Plato

Plato was an Athenian philosopher who founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Socrates was his teacher and Aristotle was his student. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the mercenaries met him when he was a young boy named Aristotle, who hated his name and they encouraged him to change his name to Plato. For fans of Greek mythology and history, this may just be a subtle Assassin's Creed Easter egg rather than any substantial rendition of the character from Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Polykleitos

History mostly knows Polykleitos as the sculptor who wrote the Polykleitos Canon, a lost treatise setting forth the mathematical basis for his idealized male body shape, but none of his original works The job survived. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Polykleitos is commissioned to carve a statue of a mercenary, but his tools are stolen by bandits. He hired mercenaries to retrieve the tools, not realizing they were Eagle Bearers, and was happy to see them after he found them.

Praxilla

Praxilla was an ancient Greek lyric poet who was highly regarded in her day, although few of her works survive. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Praxilla's son hires mercenaries to help him steal her lyre; later, Praxilla hires mercenaries to help her retrieve it. The similarities mostly end there, except that Lyre refers to her being a poet.

Pythagoras

Pythagoras was a philosopher who founded a secret school dedicated to the teaching of metaphysics. Historically, Pythagoras is credited with making many mathematical and scientific discoveries, including the Pythagorean Theorem, but modern historians debate whether these discoveries were made by him himself or simply attributed by his followers to him.

In The Odyssey, Pythagoras is revealed to be the father of the mercenaries. It's a pretty big twist, and a marked departure from real-world characters, and makes Pythagoras one of the most historically inaccurate characters in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Sokrates (Socrates)

Socrates was One of the founders of Western ethical philosophy, Plato's teacher. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the mercenary first encounters Socrates in a place ostracized by Anaxagoras, who then appears throughout the game to debate philosophy with the player. It's a fun, clever homage to real-world characters from Greek history.

Sophokles (Sophocles)

Along with Euripides, Sophocles is one of three Greek tragic playwrights whose works have survived. For more than fifty years he was one of the most famous and celebrated playwrights in Athens, composing more than 120 plays. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the mercenary encounters Sophokles at the symposium of Perikles, who is hiding in the kitchen due to his conflict with Euripides and Aristophanes.

Thespis

Thespis is credited with being the first actor to play a character on stage (rather than speak for himself). The word "thespian" is actually based on his name.

In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Thesbys was involved in a plot to discredit Crane, and later in the game, he played Leonidas with the assistance of mercenaries.

Xanthippe

Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates, most known About her, from the writings of Socrates' students Plato and Xenophon. They both portray Xancipe as a dedicated wife and mother, but her polemicism is praised by Socrates.

In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Zansipe hires mercenaries to go to Phocis to rescue Socrates. Like almost every game in the series, Assassin's Creed Odyssey mixes education and entertainment, giving players the chance to meet many historical and mythological characters - this time, those who shaped the world of ancient Greece.