1 00:01:25,136 --> 00:01:28,890 Athena: If it's by your will O Zeus, that Odysseus returns to his home.. 2 00:01:28,976 --> 00:01:32,935 ..I would go to Ithaca to encourage his son.. 3 00:01:34,016 --> 00:01:40,091 [Narrator: So says Athena, the blue-eyed goddess, daughter of Zeus.. 4 00:01:40,896 --> 00:01:45,755 [..and descend from the Olympus to Ithaca..] *Phonician 'Utica'=distant colony. Homeric Ithaca is spourious even today* 5 00:01:45,776 --> 00:01:51,646 [..to the house of Odysseus, and make a human appearance..] 6 00:01:52,216 --> 00:01:55,492 [..which the gods usually do when they show themselves to mortals.] 7 00:01:56,176 --> 00:01:59,215 [She took the appearance of Mentis, the lord of Taphians.] 8 00:01:59,276 --> 00:02:04,215 *Taphians were pirates and slave traders. Homer put them on the Echinades islands,..* 9 00:02:24,616 --> 00:02:27,768 [On the floor, one women waved infinite cloth.] 10 00:02:31,156 --> 00:02:33,156 [That's Penelope, wife of Odysseus.] 11 00:02:34,616 --> 00:02:37,813 [From that chamber, which is the wedding room,..] 12 00:02:38,376 --> 00:02:41,812 [..she rarely comes out, always thinking on a day..] 13 00:02:42,016 --> 00:02:45,406 [..of her distant wedding, and thinking...] 14 00:02:45,936 --> 00:02:49,452 [..about her future, and her son.] 15 00:03:58,656 --> 00:04:02,365 - Welcome stranger. - Hello. - Please come,.. 16 00:04:02,496 --> 00:04:03,849 ..this is my home. 17 00:04:11,416 --> 00:04:13,884 So, you are Telemachus, son of Odysseus? 18 00:04:14,296 --> 00:04:16,048 Mother calls me that. 19 00:04:17,616 --> 00:04:21,575 But that's the name I never heared from Odysseus' lips. 20 00:04:22,536 --> 00:04:27,735 Euriclea, a guest has arrived. Come here and eat. 21 00:04:28,216 --> 00:04:31,288 [Narrator: Euriclea,..] 22 00:04:32,216 --> 00:04:36,289 [..as a young girl she came to the court and nourished Odysseus.] 23 00:04:37,536 --> 00:04:39,333 [Telemachus calls her nanny.] 24 00:04:40,296 --> 00:04:46,405 Penelope, the stranger has come, and Telemachus has welcomed him. 25 00:04:46,696 --> 00:04:49,369 Maybe he has some news about Odysseus! 26 00:04:53,296 --> 00:04:58,734 Be aware queen, don't get fooled. 27 00:04:58,816 --> 00:05:02,286 The world is full of people who travel with false names.. 28 00:05:02,376 --> 00:05:05,493 ..and invent false adventures to charm the host. 29 00:05:05,576 --> 00:05:08,488 This will be like the previous ones, who bring you the news.. 30 00:05:08,576 --> 00:05:10,407 ..you wish to hear. 31 00:05:31,816 --> 00:05:35,855 I am Mentis, the lord of Taphians, and my ship is anchored.. 32 00:05:35,936 --> 00:05:38,496 ..below the mountain, opposite of Samos. 33 00:05:38,576 --> 00:05:42,091 - So you know Ithaca? - Sure. I know it very well. 34 00:05:44,456 --> 00:05:46,890 I spent years here in company of your father. 35 00:05:49,256 --> 00:05:51,690 I've heared that your old man has returned. 36 00:05:55,416 --> 00:05:59,045 No, that's false news. He is still absent. 37 00:06:32,456 --> 00:06:37,405 Who are those? I can see that they are keeping their weapons outside.. 38 00:06:37,936 --> 00:06:43,966 ..of this court, but they are behaving as masters. They give you no respect. 39 00:06:44,616 --> 00:06:46,572 Maybe because I don't respect them either. 40 00:06:51,416 --> 00:06:55,967 - Are they your guests? - Guests? We used to have them.. 41 00:06:56,136 --> 00:06:58,092 ..when this home was honored, and my father were in it. 42 00:07:09,216 --> 00:07:11,207 But as you can see, things have changed a lot.. 43 00:07:11,856 --> 00:07:13,812 ..and now I feel disgraced. 44 00:07:14,296 --> 00:07:17,810 Look, they are all pretenders of the throne. 45 00:07:19,936 --> 00:07:22,117 They come here every day . 46 00:07:26,053 --> 00:07:27,743 They are princes.. 47 00:07:28,456 --> 00:07:30,944 ..and the elite from Ithaca and the other islands,.. 48 00:07:31,616 --> 00:07:36,122 ..Samos, Zakintos, Doulichion. They come to ask for my mother's hand. 49 00:07:36,656 --> 00:07:40,535 -And your mother is obliged to choose? -She doesn't want that.. 50 00:07:41,176 --> 00:07:43,690 ..but has no strenght to resist them. - I see. 51 00:07:45,896 --> 00:07:49,366 Has this gone on for a long time? - Too much.. 52 00:07:49,456 --> 00:07:53,051 ..they devour all my goods. That's all what they do. 53 00:08:00,496 --> 00:08:03,488 Today they'll take too, a calf, lambs and pigs.. 54 00:08:03,736 --> 00:08:06,853 ..and they will slaughter them in the house. They'll make a pigsty. 55 00:08:07,416 --> 00:08:10,010 *Chorus*: They devour all, they devour all.. 56 00:08:11,176 --> 00:08:14,532 ..to humiliate the home of Odysseus. 57 00:08:15,856 --> 00:08:19,815 Thieves. But thieves at least run far away when they steal.. 58 00:08:20,536 --> 00:08:24,495 ..from fear that someone discovers them and kill them. But not these! 59 00:08:30,616 --> 00:08:32,891 - Your father should be here! - My father?! 60 00:08:36,136 --> 00:08:39,253 If Odysseus would suddenly appear among them,.. 61 00:08:39,336 --> 00:08:44,729 ..with an axe a sword and a bow, 62 00:08:44,936 --> 00:08:47,454 these suitors would have such a bitter party! 63 00:08:48,136 --> 00:08:53,290 No stranger, we wouldn't see him in this house. I lost all my hope. 64 00:08:53,776 --> 00:08:57,052 The destiny of Odysseus is in the hands of the gods.. 65 00:09:00,456 --> 00:09:04,574 ..but you, you must be strong. Go, and search for some news about him! 66 00:09:05,056 --> 00:09:09,917 If your father is dead, you will make him a grave at the seaside 67 00:09:10,117 --> 00:09:11,369 ..and you will let your mother remarry. 68 00:09:11,456 --> 00:09:14,334 But if you should find out that he is alive -- 69 00:09:15,256 --> 00:09:19,886 Telemachus, I am not a fortuneteller, but I feel that this is the truth. 70 00:09:21,136 --> 00:09:23,525 Now, I must go. My comrades are waiting for me. 71 00:09:28,456 --> 00:09:32,131 - Please remain here! - Do what I told you to do. 72 00:09:32,816 --> 00:09:35,376 - Where should I go? - Prepare a ship to Pylos,.. 73 00:09:35,456 --> 00:09:38,651 ..to Nestor, a friend of your father. *Sandy Pylos,SW Peloponessus* 74 00:09:39,416 --> 00:09:45,252 [Saying this, Athens disappeared, but in Telemachus heart..] 75 00:09:45,336 --> 00:09:49,966 [..she inspired a strenght and a wish for his father..] 76 00:09:50,176 --> 00:09:52,212 [..to always think of him.] 77 00:09:55,216 --> 00:09:58,732 *Femius*: Look, Troy fell, and the walls collapsed.. 78 00:09:59,256 --> 00:10:04,426 ..and the Achean warriors washed their armory in the waters of father Ocean... *Oceanos was considered to be father of all rivers* 79 00:10:04,616 --> 00:10:08,370 [Narrator: Femius, bard, in the home of Odysseus sung..] 80 00:10:08,776 --> 00:10:12,405 [..events of a distant past. He teached himself to sing 81 00:10:12,616 --> 00:10:17,644 [..and he became famous, but he didn't sing gladly..] 82 00:10:18,376 --> 00:10:22,051 [..The suitors forced him when they take over the court.] 83 00:10:22,696 --> 00:10:26,086 Why have you stopped, Femius? Because the queen has arrived? 84 00:10:26,336 --> 00:10:29,055 You sing the same song every time Femius. Why? 85 00:10:29,376 --> 00:10:32,527 Because WE like it. But if you want, we can.. 86 00:10:32,736 --> 00:10:35,534 ..change the subject, like love for example--? 87 00:10:36,616 --> 00:10:41,212 Mother, it's not Femius's fault that he sings about the tragic return.. 88 00:10:41,496 --> 00:10:46,854 ..of Acheans from demolished Troy, and that's what amuses.. 89 00:10:46,867 --> 00:10:51,428 .. the plunderers of this home. Why have you arrived anyway? 90 00:10:52,136 --> 00:10:56,209 Where was that stranger? What did he want? Did he bring some news? 91 00:10:56,776 --> 00:10:58,175 News you are awaiting? *about Odysseus* 92 00:11:03,736 --> 00:11:05,374 The stranger has gone. 93 00:11:08,016 --> 00:11:11,088 Why do you not say to your mother who it was? 94 00:11:12,416 --> 00:11:16,045 Because my mother is delighted to bring fortunetellers and prophets to the court.. 95 00:11:17,136 --> 00:11:20,094 ..and then they leave her deceived and discouraged. 96 00:11:21,016 --> 00:11:26,329 -Shall I encourage them? -Telemachus, you are not a child anymore. 97 00:11:26,696 --> 00:11:28,652 I've already been laughed at because of that. 98 00:11:29,736 --> 00:11:33,285 If I would go.. Is that what you want? 99 00:11:35,256 --> 00:11:36,848 To return to my father? 100 00:11:37,256 --> 00:11:44,675 *It was a custom for a widow to return to her father, so that he marry her again to someone else* 101 00:11:46,536 --> 00:11:49,494 Is that what your heart suggests you? 102 00:11:54,256 --> 00:11:56,326 Your wishes and what about mine? 103 00:11:57,816 --> 00:12:01,047 For how long should I suffer disgrace from these invaders? 104 00:12:01,136 --> 00:12:02,364 Go to your room,.. 105 00:12:03,376 --> 00:12:06,334 ..and get away from their eyes. 106 00:12:10,456 --> 00:12:17,567 You have done well to remind me how old I am from now on... 107 00:12:17,776 --> 00:12:19,528 ..I rule this home! 108 00:12:31,496 --> 00:12:33,885 Hear me, suitors of my mother! 109 00:12:34,176 --> 00:12:38,132 I summon an assembly of the elders for tomorrow! *that is the foundation of democracy and senat* 110 00:12:40,376 --> 00:12:41,775 You should all come! 111 00:12:47,136 --> 00:12:50,094 What is on Telemachus mind? What assembly?.. 112 00:12:50,176 --> 00:12:52,292 ..so suddenly he summons assembly? 113 00:12:52,376 --> 00:12:55,812 -Who advise him for that? -You are worrying too much? 114 00:12:55,896 --> 00:12:58,046 Should we be afraid of a trick of a young boy? 115 00:12:58,376 --> 00:13:01,413 He wants to summon assembly, and he doesn't even know of a purpose for that.. 116 00:13:01,496 --> 00:13:04,169 ..so let us go to that assembly. - I don't like.. 117 00:13:04,256 --> 00:13:06,406 ..surprises Antinoüs. - Me neither. 118 00:13:06,496 --> 00:13:09,408 But the people shouldn't surprise us. 119 00:13:09,496 --> 00:13:10,929 And we shall go armed anyway. 120 00:13:11,016 --> 00:13:13,974 This way our words will have importance. 121 00:13:15,536 --> 00:13:19,768 Femius, Femius continue.. 122 00:13:27,136 --> 00:13:31,971 Infinite gold, slaves, horses, and many goats 123 00:13:32,256 --> 00:13:37,410 they put on the powerful ships. 124 00:13:37,616 --> 00:13:43,770 ..unaware of the anger of the mighty gods, for immensely spilled blood. 125 00:13:43,970 --> 00:13:46,208 First sailed Ajax,.. *Ajax the Younger or Locrinus raped Cassandra in Athens temple (not Ajax the Elder)* 126 00:13:47,016 --> 00:13:52,699 ..to the Girian rock *near Eubea* where a raging sea plunged him....into the abyss. 127 00:13:52,899 --> 00:13:56,007 Then Menelaus with his ships.. 128 00:13:56,336 --> 00:14:01,410 ..fell in an immens storm. After which Agamemnon departed,.. 129 00:14:01,816 --> 00:14:04,694 .. and he happily arrived. 130 00:14:07,576 --> 00:14:11,774 His home welcomes him with grandeur, as a great warrior, 131 00:14:12,096 --> 00:14:16,035 ..hailed, crowned with glory. But all that suddenly expires,.. 132 00:14:17,616 --> 00:14:20,608 ..when in a bathroom the sword of Egistus struck him,.. 133 00:14:21,696 --> 00:14:25,245 ...and in blood drawn Agamemnon, first among the kings. 134 00:14:26,816 --> 00:14:31,048 [Narrator: And when the night falls, the suitors go to sleep..] 135 00:14:31,536 --> 00:14:34,096 [..out of the palace. So Telemachus closed the doors.] 136 00:14:34,176 --> 00:14:35,814 I came to this palace as a young girl. 137 00:14:35,896 --> 00:14:37,454 And I brought you up as I did with your father,.. 138 00:14:37,536 --> 00:14:40,846 ..and I know your family very well. Thought a slave, I am respected in this house.. 139 00:14:41,136 --> 00:14:44,572 as a wife, even Laertes *Odysseus father* never looked at me like that.. 140 00:14:44,656 --> 00:14:48,126 ..because her wife was gelous. - What are you trying to tell me nanny? 141 00:14:48,496 --> 00:14:51,215 Today I recognised your father in you, my son! 142 00:14:58,536 --> 00:15:01,972 [Narrator: Assembly wasn'tcalled for 20 years.] 143 00:15:02,056 --> 00:15:06,846 So Telemachus surprised the Ithacans.] 144 00:15:07,496 --> 00:15:11,205 [First spoke Egyptius,the most respected citizen.] 145 00:15:12,616 --> 00:15:16,767 He had learned that a stranger came to the palace 146 00:15:16,876 --> 00:15:21,089 ..and he spoke directly to Telemachus. Was this the reason for the assembly? 147 00:15:21,416 --> 00:15:25,990 Maybe he has some news about our army.. 148 00:15:27,776 --> 00:15:29,713 Whatever the reason, we shall listen to him. 149 00:15:30,376 --> 00:15:34,908 Telemachus wishes to say us something very serious which we shouldn't ignore... 150 00:15:35,108 --> 00:15:38,828 Give him the scepter. He is an adult by now! 151 00:15:40,216 --> 00:15:42,172 [Narrator: Mentor assisted Telemachus,..] 152 00:15:42,656 --> 00:15:46,126 [..because he was an old friend of Odysseus, ] 153 00:15:46,496 --> 00:15:50,250 [..When he left, he asked him to watch over his home till his return.] 154 00:15:51,696 --> 00:15:56,692 I speak to those who still remember, to those who knew him.. 155 00:15:57,896 --> 00:16:01,571 ..or have you already forgotten him? 156 00:16:01,776 --> 00:16:06,247 No, you are wrong. This was a happy land,.. 157 00:16:06,336 --> 00:16:09,294 ..till a voice of war had come to us.. 158 00:16:09,376 --> 00:16:13,528 ..against Troy. And we obey that. Odysseus took.. 159 00:16:13,736 --> 00:16:17,172 ..our best men and loaded them on *twelve* ships. No, we didn't.. 160 00:16:17,416 --> 00:16:20,328 ..forget. Odysseus should give us account for all of that! 161 00:16:28,776 --> 00:16:30,846 Wait , princes. 162 00:16:31,456 --> 00:16:33,653 You can't enter with weapons! 163 00:16:33,896 --> 00:16:37,656 ..You are violating the rights of the people and this king's house! 164 00:16:37,756 --> 00:16:39,773 Of what king do you speak? 165 00:16:41,056 --> 00:16:42,728 This island has no king for 20 years! 166 00:16:46,336 --> 00:16:47,655 Sit. Sit. 167 00:16:49,856 --> 00:16:52,814 You are hoping that my father is dead, so that you can take his place.. 168 00:16:52,896 --> 00:16:55,854 ..all of you who don't respect the faithfulness of my mother.. 169 00:16:56,176 --> 00:16:59,612 ..and you want to marry her by force. 170 00:17:00,056 --> 00:17:03,014 Every day you come here, invade my house, devour my property and drink my wine. 171 00:17:03,616 --> 00:17:07,370 I'm not as strong as my father, but even if I was I couldn't.. 172 00:17:07,456 --> 00:17:10,871 ..get rid of them alone. So please Ithacans! 173 00:17:11,296 --> 00:17:16,519 Defend the honor of my home, if you care about your honor! 174 00:17:16,790 --> 00:17:19,373 Or, Ulisse did you wrong, so you want to revenge on me? 175 00:17:22,096 --> 00:17:25,008 Rather you take my goods, not let this bunch of wolves take them! 176 00:17:25,096 --> 00:17:27,769 Telemachus has right! 177 00:17:30,296 --> 00:17:33,447 His mother is guilty, not him! 178 00:17:34,296 --> 00:17:37,077 For three years Penelope was making promises to everyone of us. 179 00:17:39,416 --> 00:17:42,931 She accepted our presents, and also she gave us presents 180 00:17:43,056 --> 00:17:45,331 ..but her messages weren't clearly negative So we wait,.. 181 00:17:45,496 --> 00:17:48,806 .. and wait. And then come the lords from the other lands.. 182 00:17:48,896 --> 00:17:51,649 ..princes from the nearby islands, and she still decides.. 183 00:17:51,736 --> 00:17:55,830 ..so there is a guilty one! - At the end she found the trick to start weaving. 184 00:17:56,030 --> 00:18:01,746 She said: Wait for me to weave a funerary cloth for Laertes,.. 185 00:18:01,946 --> 00:18:07,845 ..the father of Odysseus, that will be the last thing to attach me to this house." 186 00:18:07,936 --> 00:18:10,496 "I don't want that Achean woman reproach me if I return.. 187 00:18:10,576 --> 00:18:13,010 ..to my father without doing this duty." 188 00:18:13,096 --> 00:18:15,815 So she says, and we respect her wish,.. 189 00:18:15,896 --> 00:18:17,887 ..but since then more than a year has passed. 190 00:18:18,856 --> 00:18:20,812 And this cloth is never finished! 191 00:18:20,976 --> 00:18:22,932 The cunning is in their blood! 192 00:18:23,016 --> 00:18:25,769 We ask Telemachus to send her to Icarius, her father, to organize a new wedding. 193 00:18:29,766 --> 00:18:33,527 She must marry as soon as possible whom she chooses among us! 194 00:18:34,136 --> 00:18:36,445 Why don't you ask her from Icarius? 195 00:18:36,536 --> 00:18:39,767 From Icarius? We mustn't go, it's your duty! 196 00:18:40,136 --> 00:18:42,127 Icarius wouldn't hesitate. 197 00:18:42,216 --> 00:18:44,730 - Telemachus knows that very well. - Ithaca needs a king! 198 00:18:44,816 --> 00:18:47,614 I can't force my mother. 199 00:18:47,696 --> 00:18:51,086 So we shall stay in this house till she makes up her mind. 200 00:18:51,176 --> 00:18:53,770 I can't do this. I would be disgraced if my father is-- 201 00:18:53,856 --> 00:18:55,814 Your father is dead. How much time had past that others returned.. 202 00:18:56,936 --> 00:18:59,291 ..from the coast of Troy, and no voice from your father. 203 00:18:59,376 --> 00:19:01,970 And even if he is alive, he is somewhere far away,.. 204 00:19:02,056 --> 00:19:04,809 ..so today after ten years we declare him dead. 205 00:19:04,896 --> 00:19:07,729 Dead for the queen, dead for Ithaca, and dead for all of us! 206 00:19:09,856 --> 00:19:12,734 You re-open our old wounds Eurimachus, because if it's true what you are saying.. 207 00:19:12,856 --> 00:19:15,546 .. our sons are dead, too. 208 00:19:16,178 --> 00:19:20,010 They went with Odysseus, and dissapeared with him, but I don't want to believe it. 209 00:19:21,656 --> 00:19:24,728 You have destroyed all my hope. Thus I.. 210 00:19:24,816 --> 00:19:26,807 ..summon all the gods to avenge me. 211 00:19:26,896 --> 00:19:30,887 I'll pray to them that you all perish for your misdeeds. 212 00:19:37,336 --> 00:19:40,586 That's an omen. The gods heard you. 213 00:19:40,823 --> 00:19:44,214 ..All that I've predicted when I looked in the bull' guts came true. 214 00:19:44,576 --> 00:19:47,727 On the day when Odysseus departed, I've seen a slaughter at his return. 215 00:19:47,816 --> 00:19:49,489 On the 20th year there will be joy and there will be darkness. 216 00:19:53,576 --> 00:19:54,285 Stop talking rubbish,.. 217 00:19:54,376 --> 00:19:56,844 ..get out, you charlatan! 218 00:19:56,936 --> 00:19:58,164 Go and predict the future to your children! Eurimachus! 219 00:19:58,256 --> 00:20:01,089 - Parasite! - Eurimachus! You and your pretenders,.. 220 00:20:01,336 --> 00:20:04,055 ..on the hand of my mother, -- I won't ask you again. 221 00:20:07,696 --> 00:20:10,847 But I want one thing: Give me a ship and company.. 222 00:20:11,576 --> 00:20:15,829 ..so that I can go and search for my father. If he's alive I'll wait for one year.. 223 00:20:16,029 --> 00:20:17,689 But if he isn't, I'll build him a grave here in Ithaca 224 00:20:17,896 --> 00:20:21,842 and send my mother to Icarius, so she can re-marry 225 00:20:22,976 --> 00:20:25,683 Hear me too, Ithacans. 226 00:20:25,883 --> 00:20:29,575 I don't want to judge the princes. 227 00:20:29,736 --> 00:20:35,129 They are suitors, and they use their rights with arrogance. 228 00:20:35,496 --> 00:20:41,215 So I'll blame you, who stay in silence. 229 00:20:41,415 --> 00:20:45,723 They are few, but you are many. 230 00:20:46,376 --> 00:20:49,049 We are many, not few! 231 00:20:49,296 --> 00:20:52,413 We have enough force to repel any attack, 232 00:20:52,736 --> 00:20:55,489 whomever it would be, even your father ! 233 00:20:55,736 --> 00:20:58,455 And be assured that even Penelope Wouldn't be happy.. 234 00:20:58,536 --> 00:21:01,494 ..if he would come and decide to go on us.. 235 00:21:01,816 --> 00:21:04,649 ..because we would kill him like a dog. 236 00:21:04,896 --> 00:21:06,807 Citizens,. dismiss this useless assembly! 237 00:21:07,656 --> 00:21:12,935 Get out. Out. Return to your work, to your home. 238 00:21:15,216 --> 00:21:16,888 Get out. 239 00:21:27,456 --> 00:21:31,608 Then Athena took the form of Mentor and said": 240 00:21:32,696 --> 00:21:37,895 [..there is plenty of old and new ships on Ithaca.] 241 00:21:38,296 --> 00:21:41,413 I will choose the best of them for you. 242 00:21:53,256 --> 00:21:59,968 - Telemachus, what a speech. - Come and drink with us. 243 00:22:00,456 --> 00:22:04,379 We'll give you a ship and company, so that you can go and search for your father. 244 00:22:06,763 --> 00:22:10,307 - I'll go, but not on your ship. 245 00:22:10,507 --> 00:22:12,651 Telemachus, you really want..to drop dead? 246 00:22:12,976 --> 00:22:16,855 Maybe you throw us to the dogs when you come back. 247 00:22:17,176 --> 00:22:20,725 Oh no. Maybe he'll go to Epirus to buy a venom to poison us. 248 00:22:20,816 --> 00:22:23,569 Spare us from the effort and divide your property.. 249 00:22:23,656 --> 00:22:27,251 ..if you don't come back. - But not to this court. 250 00:22:27,496 --> 00:22:33,014 We shall leave the house to whom your mother chooses. 251 00:22:42,976 --> 00:22:47,333 You , who came yesterday and ordered me.. 252 00:22:47,736 --> 00:22:51,126 ..to travel beyound the sea in search for my father.. 253 00:22:51,936 --> 00:22:56,327 please help me to return alive to Ithaca. 254 00:22:58,216 --> 00:22:59,968 Help me return alive. 255 00:23:10,336 --> 00:23:13,408 - What are you doing here? -I am waiting for a ship. 256 00:23:13,976 --> 00:23:15,647 - A ship? Why? 257 00:23:20,011 --> 00:23:25,401 - Do you think I'm still a child, too? I'm going to make a trip to Pylos, to Nestore. 258 00:23:26,456 --> 00:23:28,253 He was also in Troy. 259 00:23:28,336 --> 00:23:31,055 If someone has news of Odysseus, he must be the one. 260 00:23:31,776 --> 00:23:34,495 Odysseus is dead. What do you want to find? 261 00:23:34,776 --> 00:23:38,325 If you go, those here will do anything to kill you. 262 00:23:38,656 --> 00:23:41,807 Stay here and watch for your home. Don't go. 263 00:23:42,216 --> 00:23:44,855 It'll be greater misery if you don't come back, too! 264 00:23:45,136 --> 00:23:48,890 Don't tell anyone! Swear! - Not even to your mother? 265 00:23:49,016 --> 00:23:52,531 Not even her nanny, till she asks for me. 266 00:23:53,936 --> 00:23:56,609 I don't want her beauty fade from sorrow. 267 00:24:01,896 --> 00:24:06,458 The blue-eyed goddess has fetched a ship for Telemachus. 268 00:24:08,912 --> 00:24:11,175 The sun went down in the sea..] 269 00:24:11,616 --> 00:24:15,495 [..and darkness covered the roads, when Athena,..] 270 00:24:15,896 --> 00:24:20,287 [..in the form of Mentor, guided Telemachus preparing a ship,..] 271 00:24:20,696 --> 00:24:23,733 [..with strong sailors.] 272 00:24:30,536 --> 00:24:32,174 [The wind filled the sail,..] 273 00:24:33,216 --> 00:24:36,253 [..and foam sprinkled the keel.] 274 00:24:37,256 --> 00:24:40,214 [Sailors, tighten the ropes, the exhausted took a jar..] 275 00:24:40,376 --> 00:24:42,936 [..with wine to salute the gods.] 276 00:24:44,136 --> 00:24:45,933 [Thus the ship rode on the waves.] 277 00:25:20,976 --> 00:25:24,764 [And on Ithaca, Penelope like every night before..] 278 00:25:25,256 --> 00:25:28,054 [..unwove cloth which she wove during the day.] 279 00:25:29,056 --> 00:25:30,375 Hurry, help me. 280 00:25:44,336 --> 00:25:46,292 Telemachus isn't here. He didn't return yet. 281 00:26:04,056 --> 00:26:07,093 [Narrator: Melante, the one with beautiful cheeks,..] 282 00:26:07,656 --> 00:26:12,234 [..whom Penelope raised as if she were her daughter, 283 00:26:12,434 --> 00:26:16,091 Instead she got close to Antinoüs.] 284 00:26:43,616 --> 00:26:48,158 So there is a solution of the mystery. Cloth which increases during the day and shrinks during the night 285 00:26:48,358 --> 00:26:50,572 So this is the way you always postponed... 286 00:26:50,856 --> 00:26:54,485 You finished a more than sufficient cloth for Laertes. 287 00:26:58,456 --> 00:27:01,414 And thus I must finish the cloth.. 288 00:27:02,136 --> 00:27:04,696 ..and don't know any more how to avoid a wedding. 289 00:27:05,136 --> 00:27:07,889 I don't know how to find a new trick. 290 00:27:07,976 --> 00:27:11,048 You are one who gave a boat to Telemachus? 291 00:27:11,416 --> 00:27:16,410 - Willingly or not? - I have no reason to refuse. 292 00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:19,092 - Who asked you for a ship? - Don't remember. 293 00:27:19,176 --> 00:27:20,689 Make some effort. 294 00:27:21,176 --> 00:27:24,009 Am I not free to give my ship to whom I want? 295 00:27:24,136 --> 00:27:29,050 Till Noemon sat and told them he saw a god on the ship, they laughed. 296 00:27:29,250 --> 00:27:38,886 But immense fury came over their souls Antinoüs were more angry than the others. 297 00:27:46,136 --> 00:27:51,568 I gave willingly my ship, and many other boys wished to go with him. 298 00:27:51,776 --> 00:27:55,928 And if they found Odysseus, you won't command here anymore! 299 00:28:14,136 --> 00:28:17,253 Pour, pour Telemachus wine. That's better than to worry of his departure 300 00:28:17,336 --> 00:28:20,294 Come on, drink. 301 00:28:23,336 --> 00:28:26,904 For me he is nothing but spoiled braith, and if its by me.. 302 00:28:27,104 --> 00:28:30,054 ..I would show him what he deserves. -No, we shouldn't do like that. 303 00:28:31,936 --> 00:28:34,575 Someone must have helped him,.. 304 00:28:34,656 --> 00:28:37,011 ..we should have killed him in the assembly, and not let him go! 305 00:28:37,096 --> 00:28:38,654 You have mocked him in the assembly! 306 00:28:38,736 --> 00:28:41,728 Well, how could Telemachus be dangerous? 307 00:28:43,376 --> 00:28:46,686 - Don't underestimate him - He went to the main land,.. 308 00:28:46,776 --> 00:28:51,495 ..but we all know that no one would come.. ..to fight with us. 309 00:28:52,176 --> 00:28:55,646 A ship. We will lurk for him in return between Samos and Ithaca.. 310 00:28:56,256 --> 00:28:58,212 ..and I don't believe he'll see his home again. 311 00:29:02,296 --> 00:29:07,734 Messenger Medont, what news do you bring? 312 00:29:08,216 --> 00:29:13,990 Has some news arrived? Do they complain on accomodation? 313 00:29:14,190 --> 00:29:16,485 No queen, I've come.. 314 00:29:16,656 --> 00:29:19,011 ..to secretly express my loyalty to you. 315 00:29:19,096 --> 00:29:25,083 - Loyalty. You don't have a damn clue what it is. You are like the others. 316 00:29:26,856 --> 00:29:29,928 Like others you forgot Odysseus' kindness. 317 00:29:30,136 --> 00:29:33,094 I come to say that your son has gone. 318 00:29:35,136 --> 00:29:39,095 Telemachus left with the ship by night, but I don't know where to. 319 00:29:41,896 --> 00:29:45,809 Damn you! Why has no one told me? Damn bitches! 320 00:29:45,976 --> 00:29:50,049 Punish me. I only know. He swore me not.. 321 00:29:50,136 --> 00:29:52,855 ..to tell you so that you won't suffer. 322 00:29:54,336 --> 00:30:00,498 Gone? Why? By what ? By boat. 323 00:30:01,696 --> 00:30:04,529 He is young, so young to navigate a ship. 324 00:30:04,736 --> 00:30:08,968 Queen, a great danger is upon him. 325 00:30:09,176 --> 00:30:12,930 ..the princes prepare a trap for him, when he will return 326 00:30:13,256 --> 00:30:15,212 ..in the narrow of Samos and Ithaca. 327 00:30:46,936 --> 00:30:49,129 He has gone, too. 328 00:30:49,329 --> 00:30:53,199 First his father and then him. 329 00:31:03,016 --> 00:31:12,732 Why didn't he tell me anything? Why had he gone? Why? 330 00:31:55,416 --> 00:32:00,444 -Don't despair queen. -He has done what every son would have done.. 331 00:32:00,656 --> 00:32:04,285 He has gone to search for his father. 332 00:32:04,776 --> 00:32:07,210 You'll see he'll come back. He'll come back soon. 333 00:32:11,296 --> 00:32:15,209 Why didn't he tell me anything? 334 00:32:22,776 --> 00:32:27,247 He must not have left me alone. It's better that he would never been born. 335 00:32:28,136 --> 00:32:31,048 Now they want to kill him. 336 00:33:04,376 --> 00:33:20,851 Zeus'daughter, Athena, listen to me! Save my son. 337 00:33:21,616 --> 00:33:27,168 Save her son, Save her son. 338 00:33:34,456 --> 00:33:38,847 -Save my son. Save her son, Save her son. 339 00:33:50,496 --> 00:33:53,408 The sun has rissen, leaving a beautiful sea,..] 340 00:33:53,816 --> 00:33:57,889 [..to copper glimmering sky, to shine upon the immortal gods..] 341 00:33:58,216 --> 00:34:00,684 [..and all human offspring on Earth.] 342 00:34:09,256 --> 00:34:12,487 [And they arrive in Pylos, the home of Nestor..] 343 00:34:12,736 --> 00:34:15,967 [..one of the Achean kings who demolished Troy.] 344 00:34:42,176 --> 00:34:46,170 [Narrator: On a blue seashore..] 345 00:34:46,416 --> 00:34:51,728 Nestor and his sons was making offerings to the earthshaking god *Poseidon* 346 00:35:02,136 --> 00:35:04,604 [Nestor begins with the ritual cleaning.] 347 00:35:15,136 --> 00:35:17,889 [With prayers he makes the offerings.] 348 00:35:24,536 --> 00:35:27,528 [His sons drag the cow.] 349 00:35:43,376 --> 00:35:46,766 [Trazimedes brings a sharpened axe.] 350 00:36:49,136 --> 00:36:51,696 You awake painful memories.. 351 00:36:51,776 --> 00:36:55,052 .. on our sufferings under Troy. There we left.. 352 00:36:55,376 --> 00:36:59,766 ..our best: Achilles, Patroclus, Ajax 353 00:36:59,816 --> 00:37:01,889 ..and my son Antilochus, valiant warrior. 354 00:37:03,336 --> 00:37:10,088 It was a long war. Nine years we fought with the Trojans and their numerous allies. 355 00:37:10,536 --> 00:37:14,051 We exhausted all our powers and abilities. 356 00:37:15,816 --> 00:37:21,129 In the end, Zeus decided to finish this endevour. 357 00:37:23,536 --> 00:37:27,085 For all those years, no one surpassed your father.. 358 00:37:27,256 --> 00:37:32,966 ..Odysseus in wisdom, courage and cunningness. 359 00:37:33,376 --> 00:37:36,891 You didn't know him, I know. 360 00:37:36,976 --> 00:37:40,685 His wisdom was infinite, but what I admire most.. 361 00:37:40,976 --> 00:37:45,605 was the prudence of his heart. There wasn't any quarrel between us.. 362 00:37:45,896 --> 00:37:49,094 ..we both together worked to preserve the Achean unity.. 363 00:37:49,376 --> 00:37:51,844 ..and we succeed this almost till the end.. 364 00:37:52,536 --> 00:37:55,414 And when the city was destroyed, and the treasures dispersed.. 365 00:37:55,616 --> 00:37:58,255 ..and the females divided, the god divided us. 366 00:37:58,896 --> 00:38:03,253 Zeus prepared for us a sad returning because in victory we weren't neither just, nor wise. 367 00:38:03,616 --> 00:38:09,452 So came the we misfortune. 368 00:38:09,976 --> 00:38:12,649 Some of them, as Menelaus wished an immediate return. 369 00:38:12,736 --> 00:38:17,488 Others with Agamemnon wished to end sacrificing to Athena ..to appease an angry goddess. 370 00:38:19,856 --> 00:38:22,848 As if a god's mind would change because of one ram or bull! 371 00:38:22,936 --> 00:38:25,814 So Agamemnons fleet stayed anchored on shore. 372 00:38:27,757 --> 00:38:31,334 Half of the princes left with Menelaus. 373 00:38:32,136 --> 00:38:34,047 Odysseus and I were among them 374 00:38:35,856 --> 00:38:38,667 Somewhere after Lesbos, where we shortly stopped, 375 00:38:38,867 --> 00:38:45,941 without any losses began a brawl, I don't remember who began it 376 00:38:49,096 --> 00:38:53,214 Maybe because horror befall on all.. 377 00:38:53,696 --> 00:38:58,406 .and we didn't know what to do 378 00:38:59,656 --> 00:39:03,444 We completely lost course. Diomedes and I make repairments.. 379 00:39:03,856 --> 00:39:09,214 ..and run to a shore. On the other hand, your father.. 380 00:39:09,416 --> 00:39:14,126 turned back the ship and tried to reach Agamemnons fleet. 381 00:39:18,195 --> 00:39:21,367 From there I don't know anything about him. 382 00:39:24,816 --> 00:39:27,853 This is my son you didn't meet. 383 00:39:28,296 --> 00:39:30,287 This is the son of Odysseus, Telemachus 384 00:39:36,856 --> 00:39:42,453 Now, listen: you were right to make this voyage 385 00:39:42,696 --> 00:39:45,783 ..cannot help you much. 386 00:39:45,983 --> 00:39:47,292 But there is a man who.. 387 00:39:47,536 --> 00:39:50,096 ..can tell you news about father. Menelaus of Sparta. 388 00:39:50,536 --> 00:39:54,529 He was the last to return and he travelled much among foreign and distant people. 389 00:39:54,776 --> 00:39:59,691 He and Helen will tell you something about Odysseus.. 390 00:40:00,296 --> 00:40:03,845 ..and my son will follow you. You can go tomorrow. 391 00:40:27,176 --> 00:40:30,964 Wait. 392 00:40:44,416 --> 00:40:48,329 [Narrator: In a room above, lies a hungry Penelope,..] 393 00:40:49,336 --> 00:40:53,249 [..thinking if her innocent son escaped death..] 394 00:40:53,496 --> 00:40:59,173 [or he had fallen in the hands of the suitors.] 395 00:41:06,296 --> 00:41:11,280 [How many thoughts a scarred lion thinks in the middle of a crowd 396 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,892 [..when death trap is surrounding him..] 397 00:41:14,092 --> 00:41:16,935 [..-so she was thinking.] 398 00:41:43,296 --> 00:41:47,175 [But sweet dreams overcome her. Laying down..] 399 00:41:47,416 --> 00:41:49,771 [..she finally relaxes her body.] 400 00:41:50,616 --> 00:41:55,406 [and blue-eyed goddess Athena, does a new trick.] 401 00:41:56,016 --> 00:41:59,053 [She made her appearance of Iftyma,..] 402 00:41:59,416 --> 00:42:03,694 [..the sister of Penelope, daughter of the noble Icarius.] 403 00:42:05,376 --> 00:42:09,972 Penelope, don't cry. The gods don't want that. 404 00:42:12,336 --> 00:42:15,248 Iftima, it's you? 405 00:42:15,736 --> 00:42:17,488 It's me, your sister. 406 00:42:19,096 --> 00:42:23,931 For how long didn't we see each other you live so far away. 407 00:42:26,056 --> 00:42:28,012 Why have you come on Ithaca? 408 00:42:30,656 --> 00:42:32,328 I've come to help you. 409 00:42:34,056 --> 00:42:37,332 Then you've heard that I lost my husband, and my son.. 410 00:42:37,456 --> 00:42:40,573 ..left me too. -Yes, I know,.. 411 00:42:40,776 --> 00:42:43,131 ..but don't torment yourself Penelope, but instead believe. 412 00:42:44,576 --> 00:42:48,455 I'm afraid. They want to kill Telemachus and they lurk for him.. 413 00:42:48,696 --> 00:42:55,488 ..before he comes back to Ithaca. How shouldn't I cry?! 414 00:42:56,136 --> 00:42:58,047 He's so young and inexperienced! 415 00:42:58,376 --> 00:43:02,130 Who knows what dangers waits for him, he didn't go far from me until now! 416 00:43:02,976 --> 00:43:05,968 Don't be afraid Penelope, Athena has mercy on you, 417 00:43:06,296 --> 00:43:08,366 ..and will bring you back Telemachus alive. 418 00:43:09,056 --> 00:43:13,254 Athena? You can hear Athena? 419 00:43:19,056 --> 00:43:23,493 Tell me: Odysseus, where is he? 420 00:43:47,776 --> 00:43:51,291 [Narrrator: Great waves throw Odysseus all over.] 421 00:43:53,536 --> 00:43:57,529 And like boreus *north wind* in autumn scattering leaves..] 422 00:43:57,736 --> 00:44:00,694 [..over meadow, and they roll and stick to each other,..] 423 00:44:01,416 --> 00:44:05,329 [..so winds carry Odysseus raft over sea.] 424 00:44:07,296 --> 00:44:11,448 [First Boreus catch him from front, then Noto *south wind* from aside..] 425 00:44:11,656 --> 00:44:13,169 [..and then Zefirus would overcome *west wind*.] 426 00:44:38,496 --> 00:44:42,011 [So tireless waves would come back over and over again..] 427 00:44:42,256 --> 00:44:45,965 [..to discord timbers and untie cords.] 428 00:44:46,936 --> 00:44:52,589 [Odysseus hurried over and over again, putting them back in place, thinking..] 429 00:44:52,789 --> 00:44:57,446 [..at his son, whom he has never seen. 430 00:44:57,656 --> 00:45:01,046 [All day and night he fought with the wind and the sea. 431 00:45:01,416 --> 00:45:04,169 [..At times the sail would hang..] like an useless rag nailed on the mast.] 432 00:45:04,536 --> 00:45:07,528 [And in a moment the wind would blow the sail to the breaking point..] 433 00:45:08,176 --> 00:45:11,930 [..and the mast moaned as it would break.] 434 00:45:22,296 --> 00:45:26,414 [Then Odysseus would fold him or put it to dry.] 435 00:45:27,616 --> 00:45:31,211 [But in the end, the wind had casted it into the sea, as two boys..] 436 00:45:31,496 --> 00:45:34,966 [..who cast a ball but without letting the third one to catch it.] 437 00:45:36,336 --> 00:45:39,646 [Thus Odysseus protected the sails from waves] 438 00:45:39,736 --> 00:45:43,570 [..in a exausting fight ] 439 00:45:44,296 --> 00:45:47,572 [..wondering how much more he must endure..] 440 00:45:47,776 --> 00:45:51,132 [..and how much time the struggle will last *gk.:agon=struggle*.