HOMER’S ODYSSEY

These episodes cover the 10 long years following the Trojan war where Odysseus tries, and tries again to get back home - to Ithaca

PART 1 - Telemachus is a Whiny Little B…

Telemachus, Odysseus and Penelope's whiny, grown son, with the help of Athena, is a on a mission to find information about his father.

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PART 2 - It's All Calypso... Odysseus' Journey Begins

Finally, we find Odysseus on the beguiling nymph Calypso's island. He's being set free after so many years, but the Odyssey is just beginning...

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PART 3 - Pobody's Nerfect, Odysseus & Polyphemus

Odysseus begins to tell his story... So far it involves people who eat Lotus and a giant with one eye named Polyphemus.

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PART 4 - Winds are Strong, Giants are Big & a Witch is a Witch

Odysseus and his men visit Aeolus, keeper of the winds, the Laestrygonians, and finally land on the witch Circe's island of Aiaia.

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PART 5 - Hanging Out in the Halls of the Dread Goddess Persephone

Odysseus and his men stay with Circe on Aiaia, before being given some advice on how best to get home to Ithaca from the dead.

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PART 6 - In the Underworld Dead Men Whine

Back in the Underworld hanging out with dead friends. Circe gives some tips on how to get past favourite mythological monstrosities: Scylla and Charybdis.

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PART 7 - Don't Eat the Sun God's Cattle

Odysseus and his men escape from Scylla and Charybdis: the final dramatic episode before a whole new type of dramatic episodes.

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PART 8 - Ithaca, Is That You?!

Odysseus is FINALLY back in Ithaca, took him long enough! But nothing in Greek mythology is easy.

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PART 9 - Reunited and It Feels So Good

Odysseus is reunited with his son Telemachus. They enjoy some quality father-son plotting of murderous revenge.

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PART 10 - Checking the Suitors' Privilege

Odysseus and Telemachus get closer to finally doing away with the suitors, but first, confrontations and a cameo by Penelope.

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PART 11 - Penelope, A Cunning Woman Surviving in a Man’s World

Penelope and the "stranger" who is Odysseus finally speak. And the suitors inch closer and closer to their doom.

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PART 12 - Odysseus and a Sea of Suitors' Blood

Odysseus is fed up, it's time for the suitors to die.

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PART 13 - Penelope, Odysseus & A Very Special Olive Tree

Penelope and Odysseus [sleeping under] a tree, proving his identity. (But seriously, it's nice.)

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