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.

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6. Scene 46

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

7. Scene 47

   As the men fashion sheep disguises to escape, Odysseus insists they leave Elpenor's body behind and honor him by surviving instead.

8. Scene 48

   At dawn, the men cling beneath the Cyclops's flock to slip past his groping hands as he frees the sheep from the cave.

9. Scene 49

   This scene