1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,162 WWW.MY-SUBS.CO 1 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,700 He is exiled like you. His name is Demodocus. 2 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:50,380 He is from Troy, a beautiful city which the Greeks defeated and destroyed. 3 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:54,300 He lost his sight when the city was burned. 4 00:05:55,020 --> 00:05:58,580 - Nausicaa, what you told your guest was not the exact truth. 5 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,800 Troy was not conquered by a fight, but by a ploy. 6 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,580 Many here know the story... 7 00:06:05,980 --> 00:06:08,620 ...but all others should learn... 8 00:06:08,620 --> 00:06:12,310 ...so that its memory remains forever. 9 00:06:12,860 --> 00:06:15,820 Troy was in its tenth year of war. 10 00:06:16,020 --> 00:06:20,000 The Scamander plain and the beaches were swarming with soldiers... 11 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:27,100 ...with boats, with tents, like a swarm of flies around a jar milk. 12 00:06:28,620 --> 00:06:32,740 Such was the daily sight we had from our walls for ten years... 13 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,260 ...their number was so big, we could never figure it out. 14 00:06:37,260 --> 00:06:39,620 ..the outcome was still in the hands of the Gods... 15 00:06:39,820 --> 00:06:45,340 ...and one morning, suddenly, we saw all the ships were gone... 16 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:48,220 ...even the camps had been deserted... 17 00:06:48,260 --> 00:06:53,620 ...and of course, we thought that Troy was saved. 18 00:07:07,540 --> 00:07:10,580 Alas! we did not see the danger. 19 00:07:10,660 --> 00:07:13,380 They had left a tall wooden horse there... 20 00:07:14,020 --> 00:07:19,240 ...a homage the Gods for a safe return... 21 00:07:19,730 --> 00:07:24,060 How naive and pious we were! 22 00:07:37,660 --> 00:07:42,420 - Gods above, thank you for inspiring the soul of the barbarians... 23 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:46,130 ...for putting them back to reason, to mercy, and above all, to retreat... 24 00:07:46,220 --> 00:07:49,340 ...I hereby proclaim and promise... 25 00:07:49,420 --> 00:07:53,900 ...that this offering will be honored, even if made by our enemies. 26 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,620 - Are the Greek so pious? - They're gone, this is what matters... 27 00:07:58,660 --> 00:08:00,970 What do we care whether or no they are pious? 28 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,300 - We should not care indeed, nor should we honor this... 29 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:07,240 ...we must erase every trace of them... 30 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,620 ...I am not only addressing Priam, but all of you! 31 00:08:09,620 --> 00:08:12,160 - I understand why you speak this way... 32 00:08:12,340 --> 00:08:16,260 The Greeks have taken the beaches and besieged us for ten years... 33 00:08:16,350 --> 00:08:19,340 ...quite unjustly, because they said Helen had been abducted... 34 00:08:19,860 --> 00:08:22,220 ...whereas she lives among us by her own free will. 35 00:08:22,420 --> 00:08:27,620 We would have sent her back to Menelaus, if she had wished... 36 00:08:27,820 --> 00:08:32,000 True, many of us died, but the Greeks have paid a high price... 37 00:08:32,420 --> 00:08:36,710 ...and this horse is a gift of repentance to the Gods... 38 00:08:36,900 --> 00:08:39,940 - Will you forget so fast ten years of suffering? 39 00:08:40,180 --> 00:08:43,000 And can you honor your enemy's work, however pious? 40 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,260 - What counts is not the enemy, but the offering... 41 00:08:46,260 --> 00:08:49,900 ...and if it is holy as I believe, destroying it would offend the Gods. 42 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,200 - That is a gift to their Gods, not ours! 43 00:08:59,260 --> 00:09:02,170 - We are of common stock, and have the same Gods! 44 00:09:02,260 --> 00:09:06,640 - I implore you to listen, nothing must remain from these Barbarians! 45 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,640 - Let's tear it apart! - Let's put it away! 46 00:09:08,940 --> 00:09:11,740 - No, move it down to the plain to rot with the remains of the camps! 47 00:09:11,860 --> 00:09:13,940 -No! We must take it inside the city... 48 00:09:14,020 --> 00:09:18,960 ...and have no fear, for we have won, and this is what matters. 49 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,620 - Yes, Priam is right. -They have fled! 50 00:09:22,860 --> 00:09:27,000 Here was the tent of cruel Agamemnon! And here was Odysseus! 51 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:32,500 Odysseus, Agamemnon, Menelaus! You could do nothing against Troy! 52 00:09:32,970 --> 00:09:35,740 Now may the sea engulf you all ! 53 00:09:36,180 --> 00:09:43,780 The siege is over. We won! They will never come back. We won! 54 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:55,100 We must burn it! Listen to me, I beg of you all! 55 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:01,000 - Stop this blasphemy and drag the horse into the city! 56 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,020 - They're taking us inside Troy. 57 00:10:12,710 --> 00:10:19,780 We all agreed with Priam that the offering should be honored in the city... 58 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,360 After much effort, it was placed near the temple of Athena. 59 00:10:24,710 --> 00:10:29,020 ...a woeful night, that yet felt blessed, since the long siege was over ... 60 00:10:29,550 --> 00:10:32,460 ...then, everything went as Odysseus had planned... 61 00:10:32,930 --> 00:10:35,680 ...when he imagined his lethal strategy. 62 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,660 At dark, the warriors came out from the horse and opened the gates... 63 00:10:41,150 --> 00:10:43,860 ...as all their companions, who had waited outside... 64 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,660 ...had come back in arms and rushed into the city... 65 00:10:49,580 --> 00:10:51,980 ...while it was asleep. 66 00:10:52,100 --> 00:10:55,400 I awoke in the middle of the flames... 67 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,700 ..surrounded by screams and shrieks... 68 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:03,140 ...the tumult of cries mixed with the cracking sound of fire... 69 00:11:03,340 --> 00:11:07,100 ...at the top of the highest tower, I saw two Greek warriors... 70 00:11:07,110 --> 00:11:11,600 ...holding a child by his feet. It was Astyanax, Hector's only son... 71 00:11:11,730 --> 00:11:17,260 ...they threw him to the ground, crushing Priam's offspring forever... 72 00:11:18,170 --> 00:11:21,680 ...and that was the last I could see... 73 00:11:22,130 --> 00:11:27,820 ...flames had burned my eyes, my mind was left with this gruesome picture... 74 00:11:29,020 --> 00:11:32,040 ...my last sight before the long night. 75 00:11:38,660 --> 00:11:43,660 Who are you, stranger, mourning the fate of Troy? 76 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,440 - I am the one who caused its ruin... 77 00:11:50,580 --> 00:11:53,580 ...the one who imagined the ploy... 78 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,500 - You are Odysseus? 79 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:02,500 - Yes. 80 00:12:10,350 --> 00:12:15,100 (Meanwhile, in Ithaca, the suitors had taken control...) 81 00:12:15,860 --> 00:12:19,100 (...each day more arrogant than before.) 82 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,500 You stay here and take care of the fire. The others, you come with me... 83 00:12:41,288 --> 00:12:43,288 The heat must be high! 84 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:58,940 - Look who's coming...there! - Who is he? 85 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:02,100 - I am Amphimedontes from Argus... 86 00:13:03,180 --> 00:13:06,740 ...I heard that the queen of Ithaca stopped waiting and would marry again... 87 00:13:06,820 --> 00:13:08,580 ...I have come to compete... 88 00:13:08,660 --> 00:13:12,660 ...my wealth is big enough, to surpass anyone... 89 00:13:13,110 --> 00:13:16,080 - If wealth is all you have, then you can go back home... 90 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:18,820 Penelope is righteous, and cannot be bribed... 91 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,920 (Everyone thought Telemachus would never return...) 92 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,440 (...since the suitors had decided to put him to death...) 93 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,740 (...so that whoever had any wealth...) 94 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:33,740 (...showed up to claim the throne...) 95 00:13:34,310 --> 00:13:37,320 (...no longer protected by any legitimate heir.) 96 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:42,540 (...as the Gods had given Odysseus one only son...) 97 00:13:44,860 --> 00:13:46,570 - I came to speak to the queen! 98 00:13:46,620 --> 00:13:49,220 - The queen does not appear anymore. - Why? 99 00:13:49,220 --> 00:13:51,280 - Well, her son is gone on trip! 100 00:13:55,660 --> 00:14:04,340 Pe-ne-lo-pe, Pe-ne-lo-pe... 101 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,220 (But Penelope would not yield to the tradition...) 102 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:22,000 (...that family gave a woman a new husband if she lost her first...) 103 00:14:32,500 --> 00:14:37,000 (She remained alone in her chamber, with some of her maids...) 104 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,040 (...while some others had sided with the suitors.) 105 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,740 - These girls cost nothing. Take one for yourself! 106 00:14:46,860 --> 00:14:49,700 - Not this one though, she is faithful to Penelope! 107 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,040 (Telemachus and Pisistratus, son of Nestor, arrived at Sparta) 108 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:27,660 Sparta where Menelaus ruled. 109 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,740 - Did you ever see such a city? - I see a real city for the first time. 110 00:15:34,750 --> 00:15:36,750 - Now you shall see Helen too! 111 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:45,500 (Helen welcomes them.) 112 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:52,140 (Helen for whom every prince had fought, for whom Menelaus had been chosen) 113 00:15:55,550 --> 00:16:02,120 (Helen, daughter of Leda, offspring of Zeus, Helen, the fatal woman) 114 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:04,870 What news do you bring from Pylos? 115 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,960 The memory of your father Nestor is always dear to my heart. 116 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:14,140 I bring you a guest. He comes from Ithaca. He is Odysseus's son. 117 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:22,600 - Give me the pleasure to speak his name. I know you are Telemachus. 118 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:30,160 I want to prove to you that I did not forget your father... 119 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,360 ... nor all those who because of me... 120 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:37,800 ... left their fatherland, all the Greeks princes who sailed ... 121 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:42,000 ... to far away Troy, so many of them died. 122 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,470 It's my fault if you never knew your father. 123 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:54,880 - Why do you say that, Helen? Is he dead? - I don't know... 124 00:16:55,500 --> 00:17:01,720 ... I know very little about today. I can only tell you about the past... 125 00:17:02,610 --> 00:17:06,440 I can tell you where and how I saw Odysseus for the last time. 126 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,780 -My father advised Telemachus to ask Menelaus if he heard about Odysseus 127 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:15,100 He came back recently, and visited many lands on his journey. 128 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:21,000 -Yes, maybe he knows. Come with me. 129 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,140 (Gloomy thoughts on his mind, Menelaus had his death mask prepared) 130 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,010 (Before returning, he had wandered on sea for long.) 131 00:17:46,210 --> 00:17:49,850 (Eight years of perils had consumed his youth.) 132 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,840 (Besides, Odysseus's vanishing was to him a sign of the doom...) 133 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:01,840 (...that had befallen all the Greek princes.) 134 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:16,470 Well, here is the son of a very dear friend of mine... 135 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:22,120 ... the dearest of all my friends. Welcome boy. 136 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,450 Let me have a look at you again! 137 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:32,200 The son of Odysseus! 138 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:37,540 -He needs you, Menelaus. Nestor advised him to come to you... 139 00:18:37,540 --> 00:18:39,980 ... to have news of his father. 140 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,880 -Old Nestor always gives good advice. 141 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,280 How I would have liked to welcome your father here! 142 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,560 ... I would have given him a home, and made him leave Ithaca... 143 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,800 ... to spend the rest of our years together. 144 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:07,580 But destiny has decided otherwise. 145 00:19:07,590 --> 00:19:11,160 -No use talking about what could not be. 146 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:15,580 Telemachus's home is under siege by people who rob and threaten him. 147 00:19:19,050 --> 00:19:22,040 -I was informed about what happens in Ithaca... 148 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:26,040 But you boy, why do you allow this? 149 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,300 Is the people against you? Or against your mother? 150 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:36,240 -I tried to raise the people, but they want a king, not a boy. 151 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,210 There is nothing I can do. 152 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,000 Anyone now can raise his hand on the throne. 153 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,640 My mother cannot stand alone. No one can help her! 154 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,640 We need Odysseus back... 155 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:58,040 -How wrong this war has been! 156 00:20:00,650 --> 00:20:03,320 How dreadful its aftermath! 157 00:20:04,650 --> 00:20:09,940 Look! The weapons of Agamemnon, my brother... 158 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:14,160 ...killed on his doorstep upon his return from Troy... 159 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:19,670 ... he did not fight an enemy worthy of him, no!... 160 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:25,080 ...he was not engulfed by the sea like many others, no!... 161 00:20:25,630 --> 00:20:32,250 He was murdered treacherously, and I have no more joy ruling this land. 162 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:39,500 This is the price I paid for the war that we Atrids have started. 163 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:45,100 -Sir, I feel you don't tell me all... What do you know about my father? 164 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,960 My queen, I beg you. 165 00:20:49,940 --> 00:20:54,070 As soon as you welcomed me, I saw you knew a bitter truth... 166 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:59,760 ... don't bother to spare me. Tell me please, is my father dead? 167 00:21:00,830 --> 00:21:03,850 -We do know something about your father... 168 00:21:03,850 --> 00:21:07,320 ...but can you endure it? 169 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,330 If so, listen to me carefully. 170 00:21:10,330 --> 00:21:12,430 Your father is alive... 171 00:21:13,140 --> 00:21:15,180 ...but he might as well be dead. 172 00:21:15,630 --> 00:21:17,810 I know this from the prophet Proteus. 173 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,000 Odysseus is lost in the middle of the seas, without a ship... 174 00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:27,400 ... his companions are dead, thus he cannot go back to his homeland 175 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,840 (Then Helen pours a herb into the wine...) 176 00:21:43,940 --> 00:21:51,440 (...to soothe anger and pain, and give oblivion.) 177 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:06,140 - Drink this wine and listen. I will tell you of ancient events... 178 00:22:06,140 --> 00:22:09,410 ... that may help understand who Odysseus was. 179 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,720 I will not tell you all of his deeds... 180 00:22:16,730 --> 00:22:18,960 ... but one thing I am alone to remember. 181 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:22,800 (Then Helen said :) 182 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:29,560 It was the last year of the war. I waited in Troy that arms... 183 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:35,480 ... decided victory, anxious for my fate. 184 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,800 I was in the temple of Apollo, where Cassandra made offerings... 185 00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:42,360 ...so that the Gods would be merciful. 186 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,600 -Oh Apollo! You, alone among Gods... 187 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:55,760 ... to still favor this wretched town, tell me what you know! 188 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,920 -They are after me, I am on the run. 189 00:22:58,610 --> 00:23:03,920 Let me rest for a while. I shall do you no harm. Help me! 190 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,120 -Who are you? Where are you from? 191 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,120 -I am a Phrygian soldier... 192 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,040 ... an ally of Troy, I have been defending the city for years against the Greeks. 193 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,760 Tonight, I was drawn against my will into a fight between soldiers... 194 00:23:20,030 --> 00:23:25,040 ... and I barely escaped. They won't look for me in a temple. 195 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:34,360 -But you are wounded! Your face is smeared with blood, you scare me! 196 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,230 Or maybe is it me who sees blood everywhere? 197 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:44,740 -No, this is real blood, war spares no one, least as miserable as I am... 198 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,240 Could you give me something? 199 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,670 - Poor soldier, I have nothing to give you... 200 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:57,660 ...except for an advice. Go! Flee if you can... 201 00:23:58,210 --> 00:24:03,230 ... far away from this godforsaken city, already full of corpses. 202 00:24:04,380 --> 00:24:09,980 -Why do you say this? Is prophecy speaking out of you? 203 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:16,250 -You don't know me? No one told you about Cassandra, Priam's daughter? 204 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:23,500 The god Apollo speaks through me, but no one will listen. 205 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:27,180 -I will listen. But can I believe you? 206 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:32,840 You say the city is condemned, while its high walls are untouched... 207 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,210 Troy has been resisting for nine years... 208 00:24:35,220 --> 00:24:39,320 ... there are not enough Greek soldiers to make it fall. 209 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,640 -It will take only one to put it on its knees. 210 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:50,040 -So what is it? Is the city running out of food or water? 211 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,500 Or is there some disease among the people? 212 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,120 - Oh, listen to Cassandra.... 213 00:24:56,250 --> 00:25:00,470 ...let there be at least one who listens to me and hears the words of Apollo... 214 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,700 -Wait, stranger. I am not afraid at your sight! 215 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:23,240 Your face is bathed in blood, but your wounds look strange. 216 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:28,520 They look self-inflicted. Why? Do you fear to be recognized? 217 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,900 You cannot fool me like Cassandra. 218 00:25:32,070 --> 00:25:34,700 You are no Phrygian, no ally of Troy, You are an enemy! 219 00:25:34,830 --> 00:25:38,070 You sneaked into the city probably mixed with the wounded... 220 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,680 ... you came to set up some trap... 221 00:25:41,180 --> 00:25:43,680 You look like a shadow from a distant past. 222 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:48,300 You burst out of the night under a horrible mask of blood, but I know... 223 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:53,160 ... you are Odysseus I recognize you, now I'm sure... 224 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,780 ... and I shiver to realize you are now inside the city. 225 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:01,360 I had followed you to see if you dared enter the temple... 226 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:03,630 ... so close to the house of Priam. 227 00:26:04,390 --> 00:26:07,390 What for? Why? 228 00:26:08,390 --> 00:26:13,480 -I knew I would find you here. You will come and hide here... 229 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:18,150 ...once the city falls, and your husband comes to get you. 230 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:20,720 -What you say will never happen! 231 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,960 -The Trojans could revenge on you for all these years of misery... 232 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,900 -You came as a spy! 233 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:31,980 I heard you taking advantage of Cassandra's innocence... 234 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:37,070 ... to pry about the city and the soldiers. I will have you killed! 235 00:26:37,070 --> 00:26:42,360 -No, you will not do that because you are Greek... 236 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:47,040 ... and still Greek in your heart, even we suffered ten years by your fault! 237 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:51,440 -Enough! Go! I don't want to hear! 238 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,440 I won't betray you, but I beg you to leave this temple... 239 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:59,560 and leave me to my destiny, whatever it may be! 240 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:08,480 -You shudder? What are you afraid of? You are the daughter of Zeus! 241 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:13,440 Helen, if you returned to Menelaus, all this would end. 242 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,500 -No. If you knew my grief about the mistake that Aphrodite once... 243 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,440 -The goddess Aphrodite or was it your passion? 244 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,040 -When Gods decide of our lives, passions count no longer. 245 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,240 -So what holds you here then? 246 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:43,040 - Only one person in Troy still has mercy for Helen's fate... 247 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:48,040 ...the master of this house, Priam. 248 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,600 Because of me, Priam saw his sons die... 249 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,160 ... he lost Hector, he lost Paris... 250 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,160 ...and so many worthy Trojans... 251 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,840 ... so much blood, sweat and tears, haven't you heard Cassandra?... 252 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,360 ... many more will perish. Blood, and blood again... 253 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:14,360 And yet never I had a single reproach from Priam. 254 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:19,080 When I came with Paris, he treated me as a daughter... 255 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:24,680 ...I am still a daughter to this home and so I shall remain to the end. 256 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:34,040 - If you mean the end of Troy, you will not have long to wait, Helen. 257 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,880 I did not want this war, I was forced into it... 258 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,800 ...and now I only want it to finish, whatever it takes. 259 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:47,180 All I saw today in the city, is enough for my plan. 260 00:28:47,230 --> 00:28:49,320 -What is your plan, Odysseus? 261 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,160 You are renowned to be a sly man... 262 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,380 Is that how you want to be remembered? 263 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,920 -The deeds of men led me to that choice. 264 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,440 And if I must carry that burden, I will carry it bravely. 265 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,520 -How often since then has this choice weighed on his mind? 266 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,180 Perhaps even right now, wherever he may be. 267 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:30,760 (Odysseus remained alone in the throne room at the court of Alcinous...) 268 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,640 (...he didn't know why his hosts had left him...) 269 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,940 (...he thought that the disclosure of his name might have made them wary...) 270 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,720 (...fearing that the Phaeacians would now hesitate to give him a ship...) 271 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,000 (...and wondering in vain what fate the Gods would allot him.) 272 00:29:47,610 --> 00:29:50,360 (He couldn't know that they had planned his return to Ithaca...) 273 00:29:51,870 --> 00:29:56,900 (...maybe the tale of his adventures would satisfy the curiosity of Alcinous...) 274 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,140 (...and win the decision from the Phaeacians). 275 00:30:05,030 --> 00:30:07,610 Forgive us for leaving you on your own. 276 00:30:14,230 --> 00:30:18,100 ...we wanted to discuss your unexpected arrival among us ... 277 00:30:18,980 --> 00:30:22,360 ...we could not imagine welcoming a man of such renown. 278 00:30:30,450 --> 00:30:33,700 - I have nothing to forgive, you have honored me so much... 279 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,000 ...now you understand even better my need to go back to Ithaca... 280 00:30:39,870 --> 00:30:42,400 ...if you agreed to help me, you would restore my life. 281 00:30:42,810 --> 00:30:46,500 - Why hurry so much, Odysseus? Wouldn't you like to rest for a while? 282 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:49,120 Tell us about yourself... 283 00:30:52,450 --> 00:30:55,380 During those ten years, you must have seen and done a lot. 284 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,240 ...ten years is a long time.. 285 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,320 ...tell us how a king who left for Troy with a whole army... 286 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,940 ...arrived to Phaeacia alone on a raft ... 287 00:31:07,940 --> 00:31:11,870 ...a king whom all thought was dead, and who wanted to be thought dead... 288 00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:14,140 ...since he concealed his name from us... 289 00:31:15,070 --> 00:31:19,340 - After Troy was sacked, I left with Menelaus and Nestor... 290 00:31:19,340 --> 00:31:22,500 ...but a sudden storm broke up the fleet. 291 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,940 Some time after, my ships stranded on the shore of the Cicones.. 292 00:31:25,940 --> 00:31:30,300 My men, who knew nothing but war, went to plunder... 293 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,500 But the Cicones defended their homes, and killed many of them 294 00:31:35,070 --> 00:31:39,680 ...72 were left unburied, six for every ship... 295 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,320 ...we sailed northwards, and the winds and currents... 296 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,480 ...finally carried us to the shores of the wild Lestrygons... 297 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,400 ...my men wanted to enter the harbour... 298 00:31:51,650 --> 00:31:57,400 ...but I deemed safer to scout the place first... and anchored near a small cape... 299 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,340 ...it proved a wise move. As soon as the others landed..... 300 00:32:01,340 --> 00:32:04,360 ...we could hear the sound of war drums in the distance ... 301 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:08,000 ...to which shouts responded at once from all around... 302 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,520 They tried to sail back, but it was too late... 303 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:17,430 ...from the cliffs, the Lestrygons threw huge rocks and smashed the ships... 304 00:32:17,430 --> 00:32:19,360 ...the men tried to swim away... 305 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,940 ...but the savages skewered them just like fish... 306 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,900 - And how did you escape? - I was out of the harbor... 307 00:32:26,940 --> 00:32:28,900 ...they could not reach me. 308 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:31,900 - So then you had only one ship left? -Yes... 309 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,120 ...it was the last one, carrying my last companions.. 310 00:32:35,610 --> 00:32:37,500 They became even dearer to me... 311 00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,500 ...because of all my childhood friends, only those were left... 312 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:42,500 Today, only their names remain... 313 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:47,500 Eurylochus, my cousin... 314 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,700 On deck, he was the helmsman, and in combat, my right hand... 315 00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:54,800 ...he was sensible and cautious. 316 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,800 Philetor, we used to hunt together... 317 00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:06,500 ...once a wild boar wounded me in the thigh, I still have the scar... 318 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,700 ...Philetor seized him with both hands, raised him up... 319 00:33:09,780 --> 00:33:13,500 ...threw him on a rock, and finally stabbed him with his knife. 320 00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:18,460 Heraclius, I knew his family well... 321 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,210 Polites, the strongest of all... 322 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:32,920 Elpenor was not strong, and the Gods had not favored him with wisdom either... 323 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,600 ...but his weakness made him even dearer to me.. 324 00:33:39,650 --> 00:33:44,360 Of the mighty army which once left Ithaca, no one remained but us. 325 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,760 I appreciated my comrades even more... 326 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:05,400 ...once I knew that some dark force was opposing our return... 327 00:34:06,180 --> 00:34:08,180 - Why some dark force? 328 00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:13,320 - Because never again we could find the shortest way to Ithaca... 329 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:17,500 ...one day, we had arrived at long last in sight of our homeland... 330 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:21,700 ...but a storm cast us away, and we were lost once more... 331 00:34:21,700 --> 00:34:26,100 ...and a second storm came, even worse, enraging the sea... 332 00:34:26,810 --> 00:34:30,520 ...it felt as if a huge hand was grasping our ship... 333 00:34:30,980 --> 00:34:32,500 ...and tried to attract it into the abyss. 334 00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:37,200 - Although a great king, you remain a man, Odysseus... 335 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:41,200 ...who tries to understand his pains by reason only. 336 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:46,200 ...It is unlikely you succeed by yourself... 337 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:50,200 Let us ask the Gods, Odysseus, both for you and for us. 338 00:34:50,270 --> 00:34:52,630 ...then maybe we will have an answer. 339 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,600 - Tonight the oracles gave their answer. 340 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,920 - What was it? - Not good... 341 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:32,670 ...my people is afraid, because they have no explanation... 342 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,500 ...maybe you have. - I don't... 343 00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:41,480 ...I only know Athena was always with me under the walls of Troy... 344 00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:45,560 ...then I knew for certain what to do and what not. 345 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:49,200 But once at sea I could no longer hear the Gods. 346 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:55,160 Anxiety in my heart made me need to know, to understand. 347 00:35:55,870 --> 00:35:59,160 - Now you must tell us what you omitted from your journey. 348 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:00,960 - Why do you say that? 349 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,160 - You went through many hardships and ordeals. 350 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,500 ...we all realized that from the first day... 351 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:08,880 ...and we respected your silence... 352 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,430 ...but if a god is against you, as the omens suggest... 353 00:36:13,430 --> 00:36:15,430 ...take any secret off your heart. 354 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,430 - I told you all I could about my contacts with men... 355 00:36:19,430 --> 00:36:21,430 ...and with nature... 356 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,680 - Have you met any non human creatures? 357 00:36:28,180 --> 00:36:30,160 - Yes. 358 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,160 - When? 359 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,550 - One day..., as we sailed a river upstream to find water... 360 00:36:37,550 --> 00:36:39,550 - No, please wait! 361 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,920 Rather tell it in front of the assembly tonight. 362 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,920 - Yes. 363 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:51,000 - We were sailing on a wide river surrounded by steep cliffs. 364 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:58,040 We tried to anchor somewhere, to renew our water supply. 365 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:03,120 Watching the stars, I had reckoned that this was the coast of mists... 366 00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:07,120 ...most distant from our land, at the very end of the Ocean... 367 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,560 ...where the sun sets. 368 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:16,580 If this was correct, we were drawn always further from home, and not closer... 369 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:33,100 My men were not aware of that, but they seemed to worry... 370 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:35,240 Premonition? ...maybe. 371 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,720 ...but actually, we had found some mysterious item... 372 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,560 ...left behind...by someone. 373 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:47,340 I had sent three men to explore when we just landed, and I hoped... 374 00:37:48,450 --> 00:37:51,040 ...they would come back with some useful information... 375 00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:54,920 ...many hours had passed... 376 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,840 ...and they had not come back, all my men were anxious... 377 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,440 Like them, I felt an obscure danger..... 378 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,980 ...the vanishing of these three was a bad sign indeed. 379 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:12,180 - Three more we will never see again, Odysseus. 380 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,680 They probably fell into some new trap.. 381 00:38:16,010 --> 00:38:18,410 This land must be home to savages. 382 00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:33,500 - Odysseus! 383 00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:39,500 We must get away from here before dark. 384 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:59,640 - If you are scared, I'll go alone to find our mates. 385 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,500 I did not try to impose my will, like I used to do in Troy... 386 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,560 ...in Troy, this was war, not the frightening unknown. 387 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,320 Giving the example was the only way to keep control. 388 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:21,320 - And did they follow you? - Three friends had lost their way... 389 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,000 ...abandoning them would clearly mean that nothing kept us together... 390 00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:30,030 ...but fear... fear of all for their own survival... 391 00:39:30,030 --> 00:39:34,300 ...fear of no longer being able to count on friends in front of danger... 392 00:39:34,300 --> 00:39:36,000 ...the end of all hope... 393 00:39:36,020 --> 00:39:39,280 But they overcame it, and all followed me. 394 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,040 As we moved further away from the river... 395 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,250 ...the sun was blazing, the earth was scorched... 396 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,420 ...the air exuded a peculiar fragrance, a scent of flower... 397 00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:00,800 ...we came to a village where a tribe was eating flowers... 398 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,320 ...after crushing them in a mortar. 399 00:40:04,820 --> 00:40:10,200 I expected to find my men dead, or in serious danger... 400 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,100 ...instead I found them smiling, among these strange people... 401 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:17,940 ...like they had always known them. 402 00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:45,520 - Why didn't you return to the ship? What is this this? 403 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,630 -Odysseus... 404 00:40:49,340 --> 00:40:51,440 ...you scared them away... 405 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,360 ...they gave us a most friendly welcome... 406 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,360 ...although they do not know Zeus. 407 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,480 Nature created them so, they grow the lotus flower... 408 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:06,000 ...and make such a sweet pulp from it. Taste it yourself, just try! 409 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:11,320 It lets you forget everything, it feels like I never knew Ithaca... 410 00:41:15,500 --> 00:41:20,600 - Who remembers us there anyway? After so many years... 411 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,600 ...can you tell me? 412 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,800 - Your father, old Egyptius, remembers you... 413 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:31,800 ...you left your bride after one month, she might have given you a son! 414 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,200 - My father died of old age, my wife sleeps at another man's side... 415 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:41,760 ...if I have a son, he never saw me, what father am I to him? 416 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,120 - We will just endure more, why try it further? 417 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:48,120 - Sorrows certainly expect us at home. 418 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:54,500 - Eat this lotus, and stay here in peace... 419 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:58,800 ...a god must have guided us to this land... 420 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,420 As long as I live no one will forget his homeland! 421 00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:07,800 - Let 's stay here... - Take them back to the ship! 422 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,560 I order you to take them! Tie them up! 423 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:19,680 Don't listen to them! You see their mind is altered! 424 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,600 Those we had met were human... 425 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:49,660 ...and we had just learned there was a flower that gave oblivion... 426 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:59,000 ...yet, seeing my once nostalgic friends taken by force back to the ship... 427 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:04,480 ...made me feel we were bound always further from mankind. 428 00:43:05,470 --> 00:43:08,360 We sailed for eighteen days... 429 00:43:08,850 --> 00:43:12,140 ...then came to a cluster of small islands... 430 00:43:12,180 --> 00:43:14,400 ...each next to the other... 431 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,880 - Why don't you sleep, Eurylochus? - Why don't you sleep, Odysseus? 432 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,280 ...why are you worried? - Leave it, go to rest... 433 00:43:54,810 --> 00:43:57,030 Tomorrow, we'll go hunting on this island. 434 00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:02,280 - What use am I to you if you keep silent? 435 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:07,000 Tell me what troubles you and keeps you sleepless. 436 00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:13,400 - Well...the sky..., 437 00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:17,430 ...I can see no stars since we left the island of the Lotus Eaters. 438 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:25,380 There are no clouds though. This is very strange. 439 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,960 - And a sailor cannot sail without stars, right? 440 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,000 Odysseus... 441 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,120 ...are we lost? 442 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:42,800 ...A good sailor is never lost... 443 00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:47,610 .. and perils often only exist in our minds... 444 00:44:48,630 --> 00:44:50,630 ...now go to rest! 445 00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:54,520 - I cannot sleep on this island... 446 00:44:55,250 --> 00:44:58,540 ...no trace of humans, yet the soil is fertile... 447 00:44:59,820 --> 00:45:04,640 ...many men travel on seas how come none ever got here? 448 00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:11,320 Why would they avoid this place? Does something conceal it from them? 449 00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:16,200 - We arrived here easily though. - Yes, then how come? 450 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,520 - Many strange things happened since we left Troy... 451 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,500 ...the quarrel among heroes, the destruction of all our fleet... 452 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:32,760 ...storms, adverse winds, now another eerie shore... 453 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:37,830 What to the Gods want? Should we pay for our victory? 454 00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:42,560 I confess that future looks gloomy, but please don't tell the others... 455 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:48,500 Odysseus, let us keep together! So few of us remain... 456 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:52,800 Think of us, your shipmates, and guide us! 457 00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:07,880 Look how fertile this soil is! Anything would grow here... 458 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,080 It would be a joy to plow, yet no one uses it... 459 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,400 ...excepted for wild goats. 460 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,640 - Look over there! - What? -There, that smoke... 461 00:46:22,670 --> 00:46:25,320 - Let's get away from here, fast... -Why? 462 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,500 Without knowing who lives here? You were sorry to find nobody. 463 00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:32,500 - But now I am scared, Odysseus... 464 00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:37,120 ...only a savage can leave such a generous soil to waste! 465 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,230 Please Odysseus, let's gather the men and flee! 466 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,240 Why didn't you shoot? What's on your mind? 467 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:54,240 - That man... - Does he matter to you, Odysseus? 468 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:57,120 - We have to discover what we don't know... 469 00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,480 ...and even a savage deserves to be known. 470 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,920 He is still a man. Should we leave as ignorants... 471 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,150 ...without exchanging gifts, like thieves or robbers? 472 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,360 What is there? 473 00:47:17,650 --> 00:47:20,880 - A footprint, but... this is a giant's foot! 474 00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,050 - Or maybe a god's... - A monster's, Odysseus, a monster! 475 00:47:24,140 --> 00:47:26,040 ...let's go away from here, quick! 476 00:47:26,050 --> 00:47:28,840 - We could be the guests of a god... 477 00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:42,200 I went to explore with twelve men, chosen among the bravest. 478 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,760 ...I thought this was enough to face any dangerous surprise. 479 00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:52,000 The others I sent back to the ship, ready to cast off swiftly if needed . 480 00:47:52,180 --> 00:47:53,760 We followed the footprints. 481 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,440 I brought some food and gifts with me... 482 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,440 ...and in a goatskin sack, there was wine... 483 00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,870 ...of a special sort. It was a sweet dark wine... 484 00:48:19,870 --> 00:48:23,000 ...offered to me by a priest of Apollo... 485 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,000 ...and so strong that drinking it with ease would take... 486 00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:30,160 ...twenty measures of water per cup. 487 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,600 The footprints led us to a cave... 488 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:49,040 From the outside, it looked small, a mere hole in the rock..... 489 00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,540 ...but once inside, it turned out to be huge... 490 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,780 ...and our steps echoed like in a temple. 491 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,400 And you claim that a monster lives here? 492 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:32,900 Look at the rope. It is craftily woven... 493 00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,200 Look at those knots... 494 00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:41,300 ...and taste the cheese! 495 00:49:41,300 --> 00:49:44,900 - Mmm, good... - Real shepherd work. Enjoy! 496 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,040 Look at our host's bed! 497 00:49:57,740 --> 00:49:59,740 There is space for all our crew... 498 00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,540 And this is the pillow, unbelievable! 499 00:50:32,940 --> 00:50:34,940 I will figure out his size. 500 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:45,400 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8. 501 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,230 ...8 steps! 502 00:50:47,230 --> 00:50:51,230 - This cannot be the size of a human! - Right! 503 00:50:54,140 --> 00:50:57,120 The axe is also big enough to use as an anchor. 504 00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,260 - If one was strong enough to carry it... 505 00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:06,040 - Sweet perfume... And what a taste! 506 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:09,820 - Pity to leave this cheese, Let's take it... 507 00:51:09,820 --> 00:51:11,400 - And flee? - Right! 508 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,440 - We are no thieves... 509 00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,500 Anyway, it is too late. Hear? 510 00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:21,520 Here comes our host back with his flock..