Twenty years after leaving for the Trojan War, Odysseus fights his way home across a hostile sea only to find his kingdom overrun — and must return in disguise to reclaim his wife, his son, and his throne from the suitors laying siege to his house.

1. Scenes 1–9

   Ithaca frozen in a decade of waiting: Penelope weaving, the suitors feasting, Telemachus unheard.

2. Scenes 9–27

   Telemachus needs proof of his father's fate; Penelope needs the throne secured before the suitors force her hand.

3. Scenes 28–29

   Telemachus sails from Ithaca in secret, crossing into the unfamiliar world beyond his mother's house.

4. Scene 31

   Odysseus's captivity with Calypso opens the parallel strand — a man who has forgotten his own family, slowly remembering his way home.

5. Scene 99

   Circe begins transforming Odysseus's starving men into pigs mid-feast — the crew's appetite becomes literal cost, and Odysseus is forced to act alone.

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7. Scene 109

   Watching the pig-filled sty from the ruins, Odysseus is confronted by Circe, who senses his presence and offers him food.

8. Scene 110

   Circe hands Odysseus a cleaver to kill a captured pig, but he refuses and instead defuses the standoff by offering to share the stew.

9. Scene 111

   Circe restores the transformed men, and Odysseus sends them back to the ship while privately deciding not to kill her despite Eurylochus's fury.

10. Scene 112

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