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 114

   Odysseus digs a sacrificial trench and bleeds a ram and ewe into it at the edge of Hades, following Circe's rite to summon the dead.

8. Scene 115

   Circe warns Odysseus that only he, not his men, is fated by the gods to make it home.

9. Scene 116

   The shades of the dead rise toward the blood; Odysseus recognizes his old soldier Sinon among them and lets him drink to speak.

10. Scene 117

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