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. Just before
6. Scene 42

   At night, Odysseus talks Eurylochus out of killing the sleeping Cyclops, since only it can move the boulder sealing them in.

7. Scene 43

   At dawn the Cyclops wakes, seals the cave, and crushes fleeing men underfoot as Odysseus orders a retreat back into the dark to save the trapped survivors.

8. Scene 44

   Trapped, the men debate how to escape past the returning Cyclops, and Odysseus eyes a large log as a possible weapon.

9. Scene 45

   This scene