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A. Mehlmann:
"Achilles and the Theory of Games";
in: "Dynamic Perspectives on Managerial Decision Making - Essays in Honor of Richard Hartl", Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-39118-2, 523 - 527.

This small note offers a "tongue-in-cheek" route to some game theoretical facets of Greek mythology. By using an apocryphal bilingual poem as well as mathematical arguments, we finally explain how Ulysses succeeded in detecting Achilles among the daughters of Lykomedes.