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 44

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

7. Scene 45

   The Cyclops returns, kills two more men against the cave floor while feasting, and reseals the cave, leaving Odysseus to comfort the dying Elpenor.

8. Scene 46

   The men blind the sleeping Cyclops with a fire-sharpened, red-hot stake, sending it into a screaming, rampaging rage.

9. Scene 47

   This scene