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 69

   The Greeks climb silently from the horse and kill the Trojan guards on the temple steps.

7. Scene 70

   The Greek warriors take out the night watch and begin winding back the city's gate bolts under cover of darkness.

8. Scene 71

   A Trojan watchman spots the dead guards and raises the alarm across the city.

9. Scene 72

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