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.

6. Just before
7. Scene 120

   Agamemnon's shade begs Odysseus for news of his son's revenge and warns him not to walk into his own house expecting a hero's welcome.

8. Scene 121

   In Calypso's cave, a distraught Odysseus panics over the fate of his lost comrades until Calypso calms him with a dose of lotus.

9. Scene 122

   In Ithaca, Antinous corners Penelope in her private chamber, pressing his suit despite her rebuff.

10. Scene 123

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