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. Just before
3. Scene 11

   Flashback: young, sighted Eumaeus is stopped by Odysseus from culling a runt puppy — the origin of Argus.

4. Scene 12

   Present: Eumaeus, remembering, feels the now-dying Argus's fur and confirms Odysseus's old instinct about the dog was right.

5. Scene 13

   Flashback: teenage Odysseus hunts a boar with the young Argus and the future suitors, including Sinon and Antinous, watching as boyhood friends before the war.

6. Scene 14

   This scene