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[Narrator: Before we start this movie..]

[..let us look at this silent place at his winter ambient..]

[..because there is a true beginning of the story:]

[..on the shores of Turkey, near the Dardanels..]

[..where the Trojan plain is situated..]

[..and where 3000 years ago, a famous war was waged.]

[The city of which Homer sung, is above there,..]

[..as a pile of rubble.]

[We visited these ruins in the beginning,..]

[..and bring these small photos:..]

[..nine cities are build on top of eachother.]

[First, which is in lowest layer..]

[..is a village from the neolith, and on the side..]

[..there is a mighty fortress from the Mycenean age.]

[Its walls are heavily built *and inclined*..]

[..and that is a Homer city.]

[A magnificent and a happy city, which the Acheans,..]

[..coming from Greece by sea, completely demolished..]

[..some 1200 years BC. And for what?]

[Because of one woman, so tales the story.]

[But the real reasons are probably entirely different.]

[The reasons for this epic story are entirely lost.]

[Troy will never rise again. The wind blows dust over their ruins.]

*Still, there were smaller cities built later, which lasted until the Turks*

[Time has also erased all memory of it,..]

[..so it was even doubted that it ever existed.]

[That lasted till an archeologist, thrilled by Homer,..]

[..a German called Heinrich Shlieman, found Troy a century ago.] *Shlieman mostly damaged the place by his digging*

[Some of the things found clearly show..]

[..a holy road to the citadel,..]

[..the Skianian gate around which Homer placed a fabula of the Iliad..]

[..and a farewell speech of Hector and *his wife* Andromache.]

[So the visitor is full of emotions when he visits..]

[..this place of events near the river Skamader.]

[And when returning to Europe he may visit the museum in Athens..]

[..and gaze at the death masks of the Achean warlords..] *made of golden sheet*

[..he instantly believes that these are the true invaders of Troy,..]

[..which survived the war..]

[..and returned painfully to home.]

[Odyssey is a story of one that returned.]

The Odyssey (from the poem of Homer)

*Get its name by the main character Odysseus (meaning hated or wrathfull).*

*Latin name Ulysses, used in the movie, is actually a nickname and means wounded thigh, because a wild boar wounded him there*

*I made this translation initially into my native SERBIAN with the use of Internet translators. Now I translate it from Serbian to English.*

*..and since English is not my native language, I sincerely apologise for eventual mistakes and spelling errors. You are free to correct them*

*All notes (scolia) that I give for clarification or for deaf persons and are surrounded by asterisks.*

*During the translation I consulted two Serbian translations of the Odyssey, and Samuel Butler in English.*

*This translation I dedicate to all admirers of Homer. Enjoy THE BEST 7th art version ever*

*On Kephalonia. Summer 2010. In Odysseus' fatherland.*

Athena: If it's by your will O Zeus, that Odysseus returns to his home..

..I would go to Ithaca to encourage his son..

[Narrator: So says Athena, the blue-eyed goddess, daughter of Zeus..

[..and descend from the Olympus to Ithaca..] *Phonician 'Utica'=distant colony. Homeric Ithaca is spourious even today*

[..to the house of Odysseus, and make a human appearance..]

[..which the gods usually do when they show themselves to mortals.]

[She took the appearance of Mentis, the lord of Taphians.]

*Taphians were pirates and slave traders. Homer put them on the Echinades islands,..*

*..NW Greece, modern Lefkas.*

[On the floor, one women waved infinite cloth.]

[That's Penelope, wife of Odysseus.]

*Homer describes 'postmyceanean' time, when masters also do heavier works*

[From that chamber, which is the wedding room,..]

[..she rarely comes out, always thinking on a day..]

[..of her distant wedding, and thinking...]

[..about her future, and her son.]

- Welcome stranger. - Hello. - Please come,..

..this is my home.

So, you are Telemachus, son of Odysseus?

Mother calls me that.

But that's the name I never heared from Odysseus' lips.

Euriclea, a guest has arrived. Come here and eat.

[Narrator: Euriclea,..]

[..as a young girl she came to the court and nourished Odysseus.]

[Telemachus calls her nanny.]

Penelope, the stranger has come, and Telemachus has welcomed him.

Maybe he has some news about Odysseus!

Be aware queen, don't get fooled.

The world is full of people who travel with false names..

..and invent false adventures to charm the host.

This will be like the previous ones, who bring you the news..

..you wish to hear.

I am Mentis, the lord of Taphians, and my ship is anchored..

..below the mountain, opposite of Samos.

- So you know Ithaca? - Sure. I know it very well.

I spent years here in company of your father.

I've heared that your old man has returned.

No, that's false news. He is still absent.

*Noise, armory noise, tumult*

Who are those? I can see that they are keeping their weapons outside..

..of this court, but that they are taking others stuff. They give you no respect.

I don't respect them either.

- Are they your guests? - Guests? We used to have them..

..when this home was honored, and my father were in it.

But as you can see, things have changed..

..and now I feel disgraced.

Look, they are all pretenders of a throne.

*noise, tumult*

They come every day here. They are princes..

..and the elite from Ithaca and the other islands,..

..Samos, Zakintos, Doulichion. They come to ask for my mothers hand *Doulichion, unknown island*

-And your mother is obliged to choose? -She doesn't want that..

..but has no strenght to go alone. - I see.

- Does this last long? - Too much..

..they devour my property. That's all what they do.

*tumult*

Today they'll take a calf, lambs and porks..

..and slaughter them in the house. They make a barbeque.

*Chorus*: They devour all, they devour all..

..to humiliate the home of Odysseus.

Thieves. But thieves at least run far away when they steal..

..from fear that someone discovers them and kill them. But these no!

- Your father would wish to see this! - My father?!

If Odysseus would suddenly appear among them,..

..with a helmet, a sword and a bow, this sorry party..

..with suitors would abruptly end!

No stranger, we wouldn't see that happen in this house. I lost all hope.

The destiny of Odysseus is in the hands of the gods..

..but you, you must be strong. Go, and search for some news about him!

If your father is dead, go and fetch a boat..

..some of those on the shore, and bring your mother..

..an answer. But know that he is alive --

Telemachus, I am not a fortuneteller, but know that this is the truth.

Now, I must go. My company is waiting.

- Please stay! - Do what I told you to do.

- Where should I go? - Prepare a ship to Pylos,..

..to Nestor, a friend of your father. *Sandy Pylos,SW Peloponessus*

[Saying this, Athens disappeared, but in Telemachus heart..]

[..she inspired a strenght and a wish for his father..]

[..to always think of him.]

*Femius*: Look, Troy fell, and the walls collapsed..

..and the Achean warriors washed their armory in the waters of father Ocean... *Oceanos was considered to be father of all rivers*

[Narrator: Femius, bard, in the home of Odysseus sung..]

[..events of a distant past. He was a teacher to himself..

[..and he became famous, but he didn't sing here willfully..]

[..but the suitors forced him when they take over the court.]

Why have you stopped Femius? Because the queen has arrived?

You sing the same song every time Femius. Why?

Because WE like it. But if you want, we can..

..change the subject, like love for example--?

Mother, it's not Femius fault that he sings about tragic returns..

..of Acheans from demolished Troy, and that's what amuses..

.. the plunderers of this home. Why have you arrived anyway?

Where was that stranger? What did he want? Did he bring some news?

News you are awaiting? *about Odysseus*

The stranger has gone.

Why do you not say to your mother who it was?

Because my mother is delighted to bring fortunetellers and prophets to the court..

..and then they leave her deceived and discouraged.

-Shall I encourage her? -Telemachus, you are not a child anymore.

I've already been laughed at because of that.

If I would go.. Is that what you want?

To return to my father?

*It was a custom for a widow to return to her father, so that he marry her again to someone else*

Is that what you are thinking?

Your wishes and what about mine?

For how long should I suffer disgrace from these invaders?

Go to your room,..

..and get away from their eyes.

You have done too much for me till now, but for no one..

..I rule this home!

Hear me, suitors of my mother!

I summon an assembly of the elders for tomorrow! *that is the foundation of democracy and senat*

You should all come!

What is on Telemachus mind? What assembly?..

..so suddenly he summons assembly?

-Who advise him for that? -You are worrying too much?

Should we be afraid of a trick of a young boy?

He wants to summon assembly, and he doesn't even know of a purpose for that..

..so let us go to that assembly. - I don't like..

..surprises Antino�s. - Me neither.

But we can't be beside other people.

And we shall go armed anyway.

So that our words will have weight.

Femius, Femius continue..

*Femius* Gold without measure, slaves, horses, and a host of sheeps as a booty..

..on strong ships they load. And some go..

..unaware of the anger of the mighty gods, for immensely spilled blood.

First sailed Ajax,.. *Ajax the Younger or Locrinus raped Cassandra in Athens temple (not Ajax the Elder)*

..to the Girian rock *near Eubea* where a raging sea plunged him..

..into the abyss. Then Menelaus with his ships..

..fell in an immens storm. After which Agamemnon departed,..

.. and he happily arrived.

His home welcomes him with grandeur, as a great warrior,

..hailed, crowned with glory. But all that suddenly expires,..

..when in a bathroom the sword of Egistus struck him,..

...and in blood drawn Agamemnon, first among the kings.

[Narrator: And when the night falls, the suitors go to sleep..]

[..out of the palace. So Telemachus closed the doors.]

I came to this palace as a young girl.

And I respect you as I've respected your father,..

..and I know your family very well. Thought a slave, I am still in this house..

..like a bride, even Laertes *Odysseus father* never looked at me like that..

..because the other servants envy me. - What are you trying to tell me nanny?

- Today I've seen your father in you, my son!

[Narrator: Assembly wasn't usual for that..]

[..part of the year. So Telemachus surprised many Ithacans.]

[First spoke the much respected Egyptius, oldest one.] *holds the scepter, symbol of power..*

[Knowing that the strangers are also among the public,..] *..till he holds the scepter, no one interrupts him*

[..he spoke directly to Telemachus. Was this the reason for the assembly?]

Maybe he has some news about our army..

..which is absent or disappeared. What ever the reason,..

..we should listen to him.

Telemachus wishes to say us something, seriously..

..which we shouldn't ignore. Give him the divine scepter. He is an adult man!

[Narrator: The mentor assisted Telemachus,..]

[..because he is an old friend of Odysseus, who left him..]

[..to watch over his home till his return.]

I speak to those who still remember, to those who know..

..or have you already forgotten?

No, you are wrong. This was a happy land,..

..till a voice of war had come to us..

..against Troy. And we obey that. Odysseus took..

..our best men and loaded them on *twelve* ships. No, we didn't..

..forget. Odysseus should give us account for all of that!

*weaponry noise, tumult, murmurs*

Wait gentleman.

You can't enter with weapons. You are desecrating the rights..

..of the people to free speech and this kingdom.

Of what king do you speak? I'm telling for years..

..that this island needs one.

Sit. Sit.

You are hoping that my father is dead, so that you can take his place..

..and all what you do is that you don't even respect the faithfulness of my mother..

..and you want to marry her by force. Every day you come here,..

..invade my house, devour my property and drink my wine.

I'm not as strong as my father, but even if I was I couldn't..

..get rid of them alone. So please Ithacans!

Defend the honor of my home,..

..as he honored you! Or if Odysseus does something..

..against you so you want to revenge on me? Rather then..

..you take my property if you'll expell..

..this wolf pack! - Telemachus has right!

We are not angry at him but at his mother!

For three years she was making promises.

She oftenly gives them, and even more oftenly chanhages them..

..but she never clearly says NO. So we wait,..

.. and wait. And then come the lords from the other lands..

..princes from the nearby islands, and she still decides..

..so there is a guilty one! - At the end she got an idea..

..to start weaving. She said: Wait..

..for me to weave a funerary cloth for Laertes,..

..the father of Odysseus, because he said that will be..

..the last thing to attach him to this house."

"I don't want that Achean woman reproach me if I return..

..to my father that I was a bad wife."

So she says, and we respect her wish,..

..but from then more than a year had past.

And she never finished the cloth!

To those cunningness is in blood!

So we said to Telemachus to send her to Icarius,..

..her father, that she may marry again..

..asap and for whom she chooses!

Why don't you take her to Icarius?

To Icarius? That's what you want?

Icarius wouldn't hesitate. He would marry her somewhere else.

- Telemachus knows that very well. - Ithaca needs a king!

I won't force my mother to anything.

So we shall stay in this house till she makes up her mind.

It can't go any longer like this. If my father is--

Your father is dead. How much time had past that others returned..

..from the coast of Troy, and no voice from your father.

And even if he is alive, he is somewhere far away,..

..so today after ten years we declare him dead.

Dead for the queen, dead for Ithaca, and dead for all of us!

You open our old wounds Eurimachus, and it's true what you are saying..

.. but and our sons are dead. They went..

..with Odysseus, and mine with them, and you are not believing us.

You have destroyed all my hope. Thus I..

..summon all the gods to avenge me.

I'll pray to them that you all perish for your misdeeds.

That's an omen. All I've heared, all I've seen..

..when I look in bulls guts, all came true. *Guts of sacrificed animals were used for divination*

On the day when Odysseus departed, I've seen returns and slaughter.

On the 20th year there will be joy and there will be darkness.

*16.Apr.1178 was Apollo's holliday, on the first spring the new Moon and total Solar eclipse*

Enought with the superstition,..

..get out you scum, get out. You'll see the future..

..go and tell it to your children -- Eurimachus!

- Lazy thug! - Eurimachus! You and your pretenders,..

..on the hand of my mother, -- I won't ask you again.

But I want one thing: Give me a ship and company..

..so that I can go and search for my father. If he's alive..

..I'll wait for one year. But if he isn't, I'll come back..

..to Ithaca and send my mother to Icarius.

Hear me too Ithacans. I want to judge these nobles.

They are suitors, and they use their rights..

.. but with very rude metods. So I'll speak for those of you who are silent.

They are few, and you are mulitude.

WE are multitude and not few! We have enough force..

..to repel any attack, whoever would dare,..

..even your father personally.

And be assured that even Penelope Wouldn't be happy..

..if he would come and decide to go on us..

..because we would kill him like a dog. Citizens,..

..dismiss this useless assembly!

Get out. Out. All go to work.

*tumult and weapon noise* Get out.

[Narrator: Athena taking the form of Mentor said:]

[..there is plenty of old and new ships on Ithaca.]

[Go and find some better of them.]

- Telemachus, what a speech. - Come and drink with us.

We'll give you a ship and company, so that you can go..

..and search for your father. - I'll go,..

..but not on your ship. - Telemachus, you really want..

..to drop dead? Maybe you throw us to the dogs when you come back.

Oh no. Maybe he'll go to Epirus to buy a venom to poison us.

Spare us from the effort and divide your property..

..if you don't come back. *laughter* - But not to this court.

We shall divide to those whom your mother chooses. *laughter*

You that came yesterday and tell me..

..to travel to the end of the sea to search for your father..

..and to come back alive to Ithaca, please help me.

Help me to return alive.

- What are you doing here? - Expecting a ship.

- Ship? Why? - Do you think I'm still..

..a child? I'm going to Nestor in Pylos.

He was also in Troy.

If someone has news of Odysseus, that must be him.

Odysseus is dead. What can you found there?

If you go, those here will do anything to kill you.

Stay here and watch for your home. Don't go.

It'll be greater misery if you don't come back!

I oblige you not to tell anyone! - Not even your mother?

Not even her nanny, till she asks for me.

Don't let her fade from sorrow.

[Narrator: The blue-eyed goddess has fetched..]

[..a ship for Telemachus. The sun has sunk to the sea..]

[..and darkness covered the roads, when Athena,..]

[..in the form of Mentor, guided Telemachus preparing a ship,..]

[..with strong sailors.]

*Mentor from the Odyssey enters in many languages as senior tutor.*

[The wind filled the sail,..]

[..and foam sprinkled under the keel.]

[Sailors, tighten the ropes, the exhausted took a jar..]

[..with wine to salute the gods.]

[Thus the ship rode on the waves.]

[And on Ithaca, Penelope like every night before..]

[..unwove cloth which she wove during the day.]

Hurry, hurry.

Telemachus isn't here. He didn't return yet.

[Narrator: Melante, beautiful cheeks,..]

[..whom Penelope look like as if a daughter, and she still never..]

[..respected Penelope. Instead she got close to Antino�s.]

So there is a solution of the mystery. Cloth which during the day increases..

..and shrinks overnight. -Are you stuck to deal with the weaving..

..thus you have a finished cloth for Laertes.

Penelope: ..and thus I finished weaving..

..and don't know any more how to avoid a wedding.

I don't know how to find a new trick.

You are one who gave a boat to Telemachus?

- Willingly or not? - I have no reason to refuse.

- Who asked you for a ship? - Don't remember.

Take this small excitement.

Am I not free to give my ship to any whom I like?

[Narrator: Till Noemon sat and spoke that what he saw..]

[..god on the ship they laughed. But immense fury came over..]

[..their souls, Antino�s more then others.]

I gave willingly my ship, and many other boys..

..wish to go with him.

And if they found Odysseus, You'll pay everything you wasted.

Pour, pour Telemachus wine. That's better than to worry of..

..his scout. Gimme, drink.

For me he is nothing but spoiled braith, and if its by me..

..I would show him what he deserves. -No, we shouldn't do like that.

Someone help him,..

..we should kill him in the assembly, and not let him go!

You have mocked him in the assembly!

Well, how could Telemachus be dangerous?

- Don't underestimate him because he's young. - He went to the main land,..

..but we all know that no one would come..

..to fight with us.

A ship. We will lurk for him in return between Samos and Ithaca..

..and I don't believe he'll see his home again.

Messenger Medont, what news do you bring?

Has some news arrived? Do they complain..

..on accomodation? - No queen, I've come..

..to secretly express my loyalty to you.

- Loyalty. You don't have a damn clue what it is. You are like the others.

Like others you forgot Odysseus' kindness.

I come to say that your son has gone.

Telemachus left with the ship by night, but I don't know where to.

Damn it. Why has no one told me? Sloths.

Punish me. I only know. He swore me not..

..to tell you so that you won't suffer.

Gone? Why? With what reason? By boat?

He is young, so young to navigate a ship.

Queen, a great danger is upon him. the lords know..

..that and they prepare a trap for him,..

..in the narrow of Samos and Ithaca.

*Same is Phoenecian for 'high place'*

*Modern day Kefallonia,or the city opposite Ithaca*

He has gone. First his father and now him.

Why didn't he tell me anything? Why had he gone? Why?

-Don't despair queen. -He has done that..

..what every son would do. He has gone to search for his father.

You'll see he'll come back. He'll come back soon.

Why didn't he tell me anything?

He has left me alone. It's better that he would never been born.

Now they want to kill him.

Father Zeus, Athena,I beg you! Save my son.

*Chorus*: Save her a son, Save her a son.

-Save my son. *Chorus*: Save her a son, Save her a son.

[Narrator: The sun has rissen, leaving a beautiful sea,..]

[..to copper glimmering sky, to shine upon the immortal gods..]

[..and all human offspring on Earth.]

[And they arrive in Pylos, the home of Nestor..]

[..one of the Achean kings who demolished Troy.]

[Narrator: On a blue seashore..]

[..Nestor and his sons make offerings to the earthshaking god *Poseidon* lord of the blue sea.]

[Nestor begins with the ritual cleaning.]

[With prayers he makes the offerings.]

[His sons drags bull.]

[Trazimedes brings a sharpened axe.]

*on very special occasions, they slain hundred oxes*

*That sacriface is called hekatomb*

*Before sacrifice, Homer says thay would goldplate horns*

You awake painful memories..

.. on our sufferings under Troy. There we left..

..our best: Achilles, Patroclus, Ajax *Ajax the Elder, who went mad and killed himself*..

..and my son Antilochus, valiant warrior.

It was a long war. Nine years we fought with Trojans..

..and their numerous allies.

We exhausted all our powers and abilities.

In the end, Zeus decided to finish this endevour.

For all those years, no one surpassed your father..

..Odysseus in wisdom, courage and cunningness. *By Homer: polytropon=manyturnning*

You don't know that, but I know. His wisdom..

.. was completely infinite, but what I admire most..

..is the cunningness of his heart. *heart,not brain considered center of intelect* Know that always when there was a quarrel..

..we both together work to preserve the Achean unity..

..and almost always we would succeed.

And when the city was destroyed, and the treasures dispersed..

..and the females divided, the god divided us.

Zeus prepared for us a sad returning because in victory we weren't..

..just. So we suffer.

Some with Menelaus wished an immediate return.

Others with Agamemnon wished to end sacrificing to Athena..

..to appease an angry goddess. *because raping of Cassandra in Athena's temple*

Like she would change her mind because of one ram or bull!

So Agamemnons fleet stayed anchored on shore.

Half of the rulers board with Menelaus and left.

Odysseus and I were among them

Somewhere after Lesbos, where we shortly stopped, without any losses..

..a terrible storm fall on us. Such storm I've never seen.

Maybe because horror befall on all..

..some hide themselves, som get drowned.

We completely lost course. Diomedes and I make repairments..

..and run to a shore. Your father however..

..turn ships back and tries to reach..

..Agamemnons fleet. From there I don't know anything about him.

This is my son you didn't meet.

This is the son of Odysseus, Telemachus

Your search and that what inspires her are just but I..

..cannot help you much. But there is a man who..

..can tell you news about father. Menelaus of Sparta.

He was the last to return and he travelled much among man..

..foreign and distant. He and Helen will tell you something about Odysseus..

..and my son will follow you. You can go tomorrow.

Wait.

[Narrator: In a room above, lies a hungry Penelope,..]

[..thinking of her innocent son and did he evade..]

[..death or fall in the hands of the suitors.]

[How many thoughts a scarred lion thinks when people surround him..]

[..and put him a death trap..]

[..-so she was thinking.]

[But sweet dreams overcome her. Laying down..]

[..she finally relaxes her body.]

[and blue-eyed goddess Athena, does a new trick.]

[She made her appearance of Iftyma,..]

[..the sister of Penelope, daughter of the noble Icarius.]

Penelope, don't cry. The gods don't want that.

Iftima, it's you?

It's me, your sister.

For how long didn't we see eachother when you lived far away.

Why are you on Ithaca. Why?

I've come to help you.

Then you've heared that I lost my husband, and my son..

..left me too. -Yes, I know,..

..but don't suffer yourself Penelope, but instead believe.

I'm afraid. They want to kill Telemachus and they lurk for him..

..before he comes back to Ithaca. How should I not worry?!

He's so young and inexperienced!

Who knows what dangers waits for him, those worries can't leave me!

Don't be afraid Penelope, Athena has mercy on you,

..and will bring you back Telemachus alive.

Athena? You can hear Athena?

Tell me: Odysseus, where is he?

[Narrrator: Great waves throw Odysseus all over.]

And like boreus *north wind* in autumn scattering leaves..]

[..over meadow, and they roll and stick to each other,..]

[..so winds carry Odysseus raft over sea.]

[First Boreus catch him from front, then Noto *south wind* from aside..]

[..and then Zefirus would overcome *west wind*.]

[So tireless waves would come back over and over again..]

[..to discord timbers and untie cords.]

[Odysseus hurried over and over again, to put them back in place, thinking..]

[..at distant about a lovely and courageous wife..

[..and a son he has never seen. All day he fought..]

[..with wind and sea. In a moment the sail would hang..]

[..like an useless rag nailed on the mast.]

[And in a moment the wind would blow sail to the breaking point..]

[..and the mast moan like it would break.]

[Then Odysseus would fold him or put it to dry.]

[But in the end, the wind had casted him into the sea, just like two boys..]

[..cast a ball but without a third one to catch it.]

[Thus Odysseus protect the sails from waves all times..]

[..in a mortal combat that waves don't wash him away..]

[..and wonder how much more he must endure..]

[..and how much time the struggle will last *gk.:agon=struggle*.

Zeus: See how men blames the gods.

They say that misfortunes are from us, but instead they are..

..from their madness and they get a part..

..in which destiny appoints them. *Od.1.32*

Athena: Our father, Zeus, son of Chronos *Time*,..

..my heart breaks for Odysseus who suffers temptations..

..and toils so far away from his kin.

Don't you sorry him? Wasn't he dear to you..

..when he made sacrifices near the Greek ships on the Troyan plain?

Zeus: Athena, my daughter, how would I forget Odysseus,..

..who is so above others by his wisdom and cunningness?

But it's the earthshaker Poseidon who is angry..

..because Odysseus had blinded his son.

And he doesn't want to kill him, no, but to make him roam..

..as far away from his fatherland. But Poseidon can't go on..

..against all of us who wish that Odysseus return.

[Narrator: Athena, the daughter of the god, stopped all the winds to blow.]

[She only let Boreus to calm the waves..]

[..afore Odysseus, so he can grasp the land and kiss the earth.]

*According to Homer sea goddess Leucotea took pity on him and throws him her veil. -Od. 5,333*

[So near the creek, he say:]

[Lord, who ever you are, I am saved from the sea.]

[I give myself to your arms and I am in debt to you.]

[Have mercy on me.]

[Like someone who hides himself near the ash, so he is all covered with it..]

[..but he holds a small flame because he has no other to lit him a spark..]

[..,so Odysseus was covered with leaves.]

[Then Athena pour a dream over his eyes, and she went..]

[..to the city of the Feacians to prepare for his arrival.] *Feaci is modern Corfu*

[Like breath she gets into the room, where one girl..]

[..with a name Nausica sleeps. Hovering over her head..]

[..she get into her dream taking form of her beloved friend.]

Nausica, you forgot your mothers instructions?

The laundry is still here unwashed.

Your wedding day is approaching when everything should be ready..

..and polished in a house.

You know very well how many young boys want you here in Feacia.

And your girlfrends are awaiting you. C'mon we are going to the river..

..to wash laundry, and if there be many of us we'll finish that earlier.

Let's burden the mules with laundry, it's easier,..

..for you and for us.

We are going to catch a day till you wake up.

[Narrator: Terrible, covered with salt,..]

[..Odysseus shows himself to girls who fled terrified.]

[Only Nausica stays. Athena encourages her.]

[Odysseus didn't know should he fall on his knees in front of her..]

[..or beg her from afar so she doesn't get scared.]

Lady, are you a goddess or a woman?

You are so atractive that you look like to me like some divinity.

Maybe you are from the immortal daughters of Zeus?

And where did you see that the daughters of Zeus wash dirty laundry?

You didn't flee. You are not afraid of me?

- To be afraid? No, why should I? - Tell me please,..

..what is this country? Last night sea has throws me here,..

..on this beach. I don't have a clue how much time I have endured.

Come, I beg you. I'm not hiding any treachery in my heart.

I'm not a criminal. Please, have mercy on me.

Take it. Wash yourself and get dressed. My sisters will help you.

[Narrator: After he washes and dresses, Odysseus goes a little further away..]

[..from them. And Nausica thinks:]

[..Wasn't some of the gods coming among them.]

[First he looks teribble, and now he is like one of them.]

[Ah, if he would wish to stay among us!]

Three times happier your mother and father,..

..three times happier your brothers and friend.

But more happier of them is those that took you to his home.

-Do you wish to eat? -Yes.

I'm Nausica *burned ships*. And you?

Here lives the Feacians, peaceful people. Don't be afraid.

- I'll take you to my father. - Who is your father?

- Alcinous, king of this people. Don't you trust me? - No, we'll go.

I told you not to follow me so close.

- But how should I find the city? - You'll find it yourself.

I don't want that someone says: 'That stranger..

..takes Nausica to her home. Why does she need this stranger?'

They think I want to merry him, or that I'm..

..gone to river just to find it there.

Who knows how Feacia nobles will react!

It may hurt their pride. They can accuse you.

The girl will think that I gladly meet with strangers..

..before public wedding?

And remember, when you come to court..

..first you'll beg my mother!

Athena, my protector, hear me at least now..

..like you hear me when I was drowning.

Where are you? Why you didn't show to me among the waves? What are you afraid of?

Help me that the people of this land accept me.

[Narrator: Athena,taking form of a little girl,..]

[..heared him, but didn't show up..]

[..not to anger her fathers brother Poseidon.]

[But still she whispers: "Go in silence.]

[I'll guide you. Don't turn arround..]

[..till you come at Alcinous court. And don't ask anyone on anything.]

[That's the court you asked for.]

[There you'll find Feacians waiting for you..]

[..because they already made notice of you.]

[Feacians don't like strangers and those coming from afar.]

[They ask you much. They'll look astonished and suspicious.]

[But don't get discouraged. Be brave. Bold man..]

[..overcome every temptation, wherever he is."]

Queen, my respect. I'm not coming as an enemy..

..and beg your hospitality *Gk: Xenia,considered sacred*. Let you, your court and your people..

..enjoy every bless from the gods.

The queen, in name of Zeus, patron of hospitality,..

..please help me.

You do good to please the queen.

Her name is Areta. She is the daughter of her husband Alcinous brother.

They are both offsprings of Poseidon, lord of the watery abyss,..

..and of Peribea, descendant of Gigantes.

They are of diwine origins, so beg them..

..carefuly and wisely. But know..

that it's Areta who maintains the peace among folk.

Because they care much about their bride.

[Narrator: For so long he had an empty stomach, so now with gluttony he ate and drank..]

[..angry on his stomach for always wanting more..]

[..to set away heavy thoughts and worry. And it was abominate for him to eat..]

[..like that, in front of all, but he knows..]

[..that his hosts wants that: to watch him, study..]

[..who he is, what kind of man and how much he can eat.]

*relaxing music*

You are nicely welcomed as a guest, like sacred laws commands..

Now, we want to know who you are, where you come from, and how you got there.

I'm a sailor and my homeland is far away..

..and many calamities have fallen on me. - OK, but what's your name?

Name of the shipwrecked? Of those without kin or property?

What name would you like to hear?

He doesn't look like punk.

- You said you are alone? - Yes queen.

- When have you stranded on our shores? - Yesterday,..

..I've arrived on a beach near the creek.

- And the ship and the companions? - I've had a ship and companions,..

..but long ago. - You have sailed alone on open sea?

- Yes queen. -How? - On raft. For 18 days..

..I've traveled. I've exhausted all food and water.

I had lost any hope till I saw your land.

- From where do you come? - Before 8 years, winds..

..and sea currents throw me away to west,..

..in inhabited areas. A storm wrecked my ship..

.. straight on the rocks of the island Ogygya.

All my companions died, and I was saved by a nimph.

Her name is Calipso. She concealed my wounds..

..but she also wanted to keep me for herself even when I begged her..

..every day to let me go home.

And then, last month she let me leave.

So I built a raft and sailed.

- You said that you stranded yesterday and come to this court alone..

..but where did you get clothing? That belonged to one of my sons.

Who gave you that? How did you get clothing?

- Your daughter. She was the first person that I encountered..

..on the banks of a river where I woke up.

She first took pity on me.

My daughter is still young and easily makes mistakes.

She wants to bring you here and she announced your arrival.

Don't castigate her. I asked her not to do so..

..in respect for her..

..and fear that you may reproach her. - Now it's ok.

No Feacian is angry, but you both have risked too much.

Hospitality *xenisa* is very important to us..

..because we know envy and evil. This land..

..isn't our homeland from time immemorial.

We used to live on one island near Cyclops *Hyperia by Homer*..

..who constantly disturbed us. My father then decided..

..to move the people to some island away from the common routes.

On this island. And what kind of island is this? You would never know about that stranger.

Our island is called Sheria *Corfu by concensus*,..

..and the shores and the river on which you came, no one can describe..

..to someone else. Solitude is our price for peace.

It's big price, but it's worth it.

Now you know why we mistrust strangers.

Father, that was all in my dream.

- No, say nothing. Your father does have a point.

- What dream? - A sudden puf of air comes to my room..

..and I see one friend of mine, daughter of your..

..helmsman Dimantes.

She said: Nausica,why are you so careless? Laundry..

..waits unwashed. Lets together wash yours..

..and your brothers laundry." So I went to the river..

..and found this stranger. - Did you dream about him also? - No.

I don't know who you are, but a dream has announced you.

Innocent dreams are somethimes a warning..

..which are send by someone and not for nothing. Thus, stranger,..

..you are welcomed among us.

*Music starts...sound of wind*

[Narrator: But Alcinous saw..]

[..that the stranger didn't go to rest and that something troubled him.]

[He decided to tell him what was foretold..]

[..about the destiny of Feacians. It was important that the stranger,..]

[..whoever he was, be informed.]

Why are you not resting? Aren't you tired? Go to sleep.

- The sky over the Feacians is very clear. - True.

Stars are brightier here. Sailors cannot go astray..

..gazing at this sky. - How much time I've watched..

..in these stars to find a course! For years I've searched in vain..

..to show me the route to known land. - Your homeland?

- Yes. But even these brightest stars couldn't tell me.

But they tell me that I'm not far away.

I see that clearly by inclination of Big Dipper. *Ursa Major used in navigation*.

You have too much luck, because it's hard..

..to get to us. From there every path is reachable, and our ships..

..steered by clever minds, sail..

..on sea roads without deviation. - I saw on your ships..

..the stretched hand on prow. -Yes, warning.. *pulen-used to scare aledged sea monsters*

They don't bow to those with evil intentions.

And this one here, why do you assembly him?

Because it's not destined to sail. Long ago my father foretold..

..that our ship will one day return to the homeland..

..man abominate to Poseidon..

..and that god will be angry because of that.

So this is sacrificial offering.

We wish that he calms the fury of the sea.

Now, it's the storm season anyway.

It's dangerous to sail at sea. Why do you not delay?

-Till the spring at least! -I wish to stay, but..

- For how long? How long you would keep me here? A year?

A year is too short. You were on the island Ogygya for 7 years.

Yes, 7 years, endlessly long..

..or endlessly short.

How distant is that island? *Ogygya-prob. Gozo near Malta*

-And where is it? -In the western sea, but I think it's very..

..far away because the stars are on different places then here.

I've traveled 18 days, with favorable winds in one moment,..

..and contrary sea current in another moment, so I cannot tell precisely how distant it is.

- Is it beautiful? -Perfect, even god would rejoice..

..looking at those meadows full of lillies,..

.. and those forests. *bird song*

No news ever comes. Even the wind was calm.

- Who is that Calypso? Goddess? Sorcery?

- Immortal. - How does she look?

I can tell you the colour of her eyes..

..and her hair is long and handsome like yours. Calypso is a nymph,..

..and daughter of Atlas, so they say.

- She kept you imprisoned? - She kept me imprisoned.

Without companions, without a ship to go...

Were you so nostalgic?

- That imprisonment, was it hard for you? - By day, yes. But by night..

..memories would fade away..

..and I would fall asleep in Calypso's cave.

But when I woke up, the return would torment me like before.

One morning she found me sitting on a seashore and looking at the horizon..

..and told me: You torment yourself. Your homeland is in the direction of the Great Bear *north*.

Last night the crows croak too long.

You have been sleeping. But suddenly, a seagull flew towards me.

He flew straight into the cave. It seemed that he searched just for me,..

..like someone sending a sign. Do you now what that means?

The wind blew him, he was tired of flying.

He searched for a nest. You could catch him.

You could put him in a cage. - No, he's gone. So you too..

.. can go. - What are you talking about?

About what you are thinking for so long. About the return.

- Return? How? - Look at the sea. It looks different.

The sea is not invincible. I want you to believe in that.

Now, build a raft, set sail,,..

.. and take enough food and water. - Raft?

No, you are not serious.I don't believe you! - The magic is over.

- Swear! - Why?

Swear that you want to change your mind and that you want to release me!

No, it's not I who want you to leave, It's the gods who are stronger than me..

..but envious and malicious! I've saved you!

You were on mercy of the sea, your ship was demolished..

..and now the gods want to take you away.

I alone have nourished you and cared for you.

The seagull was god *Hermes* and he brings a message from Zeus.

So you can build your raft.

*Music*

- So, your arrival here was destiny appointed? - The gods show me a way,..

..which I search for. - Maybe you wish to stay? - Yes.

Stay with me. I'll make you immortal, unchangeble,..

..you'll be forever the same. - Never to die?

No. Like god! Without disease, without pain. IMMORTAL!

-Only to stay by my side. - No, no.

You never forget your love? All these years you think about her?

Don't be mad at me because of that. My dear and you cannot be compared..

..you are immortal and she'll grow old and die.

But anyway, I wish to go home, see her again and my son with her.

Then, let this be your route: between Levant *east*..

..and the Big Dipper *north* where the Pleiadees rise out of the sea *NE*. *Od. 5,270-277*

*Ursa Major rotate closer to north than today*

*The Pleiadees used for appointing seasons and favorable time for sailing*

*Gk.: Ploio=ship; Pleo=sailing*

*Homer (and Hesiod) are with their epics precursors of Astronomical and Greek science*

Stranger, that means that you could be immortal?

Maybe it means that man forgets himself..

..and people forget him. As you can see, I failed.

*sounds of sea and seagulls*

*Games which Homer describes in Odyssey..

..are precursors of olympic games*

Bravo, Eurimachus.

Greetings stranger. We shall now try competing with swords! Try with us.

Why are you inviting me? To mock me? Glorious games are for the youth.

There are people who maintain strenght..

..even after youth. - We'll be honored..

..that you take part in our games. - I'm not able Alcinous. Fatique..

..from traveling weakened me, and long absence..

..break my pride of combat and victory.

Leave him alone. This man is incapable to compete with us.

He looks anyway to me as some simple merchant..

..who thinks only about his load and profit.

You are talking too much and with malice. Obviously, the gods don't share..

..their gifts equally: To you they give handsome appearences,..

..but they deny you wisdom! My thoughts are far away from there..

..and I don't have youthful freshness,..

..but I accept your challenge anyway..

..because you have insulted me, rookie!

I accepted the challenge and won, but for years..

..I knew only about war, and war has dwelled in me.

So little was needed to awake it in me.

In me you have seen only a sailor, but you couldn't..

..see the warrior in me. - We don't want you to apologize for yourself.

That boy insulted thee, but tell us who you are?

Maybe your name is famous, judging by what we see.

Don't ask me for a name, instead..

..if you think that as a man of war I deserved respect of the Feacians

..please give me a ship, so that I can finally..

..return to my homeland.

*sound of waves*

*relaxing court music*

What you are thinking Nausica? You've grown up,..

..so listen: Till you are young, it's natural..

..to fall in love in someone who has suffered.

Those touch any one of us.

We give them more attention, because we feel urge to help them more.

But we shouldn't give more than we can,..

..or more than what is just, even if our heart forces us to do so.

His destiny isn't to stay with us. To us it's different..

..and I believe that he wants to return to his home and family.

*Gk. Nostos-Returns. Thus nostalgy*

A refugee like you. His name is Demodocus.

He lived in Troy, the beautiful city which..

..the Acheans demolished after the siege.

He lost his sight in fire.

Nausica, you tell the stranger one untruth.

Troy didn't fall in just war,..

..but by deceit. My guests know that well..

..but all others should hear, because that..

..event will stay in memory forever. We were in the 10th year of war.

Like always, in front of us, near the river Scamander..

..the swarms of ships like summer flies..

..gathered around a jar with milk.

First ships of the Foceans,than the Myceneans (meekaenaens-not miceeneeans),..

..than the Atens, then on the edge of the shore Korintians.

We never succeeded to count them all till..

..one morning, not believing our eyes, we saw the abandoned..

.. military camp, the ships all gone, and we hoped..

..that Troy was saved.

Unfortunate us, not to see deceit!

One wooden horse stood there, higher than our gates.

We thought they left that to appease the gods..

..for safe return. How naive and pious we were.

Gods above, thank you! Thank you for inspiring..

..those barbarians to retreat, to put them back to reason and mercy..

..into soul. So I promise you that this gift..

..will be honored as it deserves,..

..even it was made by our enemies.

Reason and mercy of the Acheans?

They are no more, and that's all that matters!

What use of that which is reason?

We shouldn't pay heed to this.

We should erase any trace of them, I tell you Priam..

..and to all of you! - I understand about them.

The Acheans landed on the shores and attacked us..

..over a long and unjust siege because of Helena..

..which is hijacked, and which we would never have kidnapped from Menelaus..

..and she is now with us against her will.

We have a host of dead, but the Acheans paid severely..

..their madness and this horse is a gift..

..to the gods, a gift of repentance. - It seems that you decide to forget..

..all these victims we endured during all these years? How can you..

..respect a gift from your enemies! - True Laoocon, but this is a gift to the gods,..

..the holy thing, so shall we insult the gods?

That's a gift to their gods, not ours!

But we are the same human kin, and our gods are the same!

Listen to me Priam, don't leave anything of the Acheans undemolished!

Dismantle it to pieces! Leave it there!

-Let him rot here! -No. We should take it inside..

..the city. We are not to be afraid now we had won!

True, that's important, Priam is right, we won!

There was a tent of those bloodfirsty Agamemnon. And here those of Odysseus.

Odysseus, Agamemnon, Menelaus! You could do nothing to Troy!

And now even the sea can spoil your return!

The siege is over. We won! They'll not come back. We won!

Burn it! Only then they wont return! Burn it!

Stop with the blasphemy and bring the horse in!

*whispers* They'll bring us to the town.

So everyone agreed with Priam that we must..

..bring it inside the walls.

We placed him as a war trophy near the Athena temple.

Woe to us, we celebrated that evening..

..thinking that the long siege has come to an end. And that was exactly..

..what Odysseus wanted when he build the horse.

He and his companion spawn out of it.

They run to a gate to open it to their troops who..

..with their ships returned to the beaches,..

..armed to the teeth. And city slept.

And I slept too. Then I saw that from every part of the town ..

..arose big flames and fires. Screams of living people mixed,..

..with the cracking sound of fire. And above the flames I saw..

..on the highest tower, 2 Achean warriors..

..holding a small child to his feet. It was Astinax *or Astianax*,..

..son of Hector. They raise him and throw..

..him into the abyss from the high tower. And so in a sad lake of blood,..

..Priamus offspring vanished. And that was the last thing that I saw.

*He was killed by Neoptolemus, monstrous son of Achilles, who also..*

*..killed Priam near the altar. Angering gods, he was later killed by the priests of Apollo.*

Who are you stranger when you mour the fate of Troy?

I'm the one who destroyed them. I'm the one who deceived them.

- You are Odysseus? - Yes.

[Narrator: Meanwhile, on Ithaca, surrounded by sea, suitors..]

[..besieging the home of Odysseus, ruled as in their houses.]

You come here. Leave it. You set a fire..

*music in background, tumultous sounds*

- Look who's coming. - Who?

I'm Antimedontes, coming from Argus, *Argos on Peloponessus*..

..and I've heared that the queen of Ithaca decided not to wait any more..

..for her husband. So I've come to compete for her wedding.

I've brought enough treasure, so I can compete with anyone.

If being rich is the only thing you have, then leave from Ithaca.

Penelope is virtuose, and can't be bribed....

[Narrator: The news that Telemachus had gone never to return..]

[..spread out. So Penelope was facing alone..]

[..the numerous enemies. Whoever had anything from wealth or power..]

[..sooner or later will show up to ask for that throne..]

[..which no man or family protected.]

[The gods wished so, that Telemachus doesn't have brothers..]

[..like he didn't have a father right now.]

I want to speak with the queen!

- The Queen doesn't come here any more. - Why?

Because her son went away.

Pe-ne-lo-pe,Pe-ne-lo-pe...

[Narrator: But Penelope couldn't leave the fate..]

[..of Achean women, that when their fathers and brothers..]

[..gave them for first marriage as virgins, that that first died *i.e. she remains faithfull*.]

*In background suitors scream: Pe-ne-lo-pe..*

[Narrator: Penelope stays beside her maidens,..]

[..of whom some betray her and some resist..]

[..the attempts of suitors.]

-This one is cheap. -Mine is like that one, take her!

I don't like this. I'm faithfull to Penelope!

[Narrator: Telemachus and Pisistrat, son of Nestor,..]

[..has arrived under the walls of Sparta where Menelaus rules.]

- Did you ever imagine this big city? - I never saw the real city.

Now you'll see Helen!

[Narrator: Helena comes down from high walls.]

[Greatest princess contest for her hand.]

[Menelaus get her.] *That was before the events with Paris*

[Helen, daughter of Leda and Tindareus, offspring of Zeus, fatal woman]

*Zeus in form of a swan f... Leda*

Anything new in Pylos? The memory of your father Nestor..

..is always dear to my heart. - I bring you a guest. He comes from Ithaca..

..son of Odysseus. - I'll tell you my name.

I know you are Telemachus I want to prove to you that I remember..

..your dad and all those who because of me..

..left their fatherland: warlords of Acheans who go to walls of Troy,..

..far away and a lot of them killed.

It's my guilt that you didn't know your father yet.

- Why are you speaking like that? Is he dead? - I don't know..

..Very little I know of today. I can tell you only about the past,..

..Telemachus.I can tell you where I saw your father the last time.

My father consulted Telemachus asking Menelaus about his father...

Recently he came back, and he traveled a lot they say.

Yes, maybe he knows, come with me.

[Narrator: Menelaus made his death mask,*of gold*..]

[..crumbled with heavy thoughts. He also travels very much..]

[..at sea till he finds the way home.]

8 years sucked out all his youth, because of the risky return.]

*About the mostly catastrophic returns of Acheans, exist epic Nostoi=Returns. Now lost*

[Thus absence of Odysseus eclipsed all fate of other..]

[..rulers of Achean cities.]

*They greet at Tolos, beehive shaped tomb*

So, in my house comes the son,..

..of my dear friend. Welcome boy.

Let me see you again. Son of Odysseus!

Menelaus, he needs you. Nestor consulted him..

..that he search for news about his father from you.

Old Nestor gives you good advice.

Ah, how I would like to welcome your father here. I would give him home here..

..bring him from Ithaca..

..so that we always be together as neighbors..

..and to waste like that the last years of our lives. But fate decided differently.

Now it's useless to speak what would be.

Telemachus home is under siege by people who rob him and fraight.

I've heared what happens on Ithaca, but you boy..

..why do you let that happen? Are the people against you? Or your mother?

I attempted to raise the people. Our island needs a king,..

..not a boy. Everyone who can raise his hand on thr throne of Ithaca.

Only my mother prevents them. No one can help us!

Only if Odysseus returned....

Ah that damn war! How many damages he makes!

Hororible evil it brought to us! Look weapon..

..of Agamemnon, my brother, treacherously murdered..

..at his doorstep after his return from Troy. He didn't die in battle..

..with an enemy worthy of him. Nor sea devours him.

*He was killed by Clitemnestra,h is wife, to avenge their daughter Iphigenia, and protect her lover Aegistus*

He was killed by treason, and now I alone rule this city.

That's the price I paid with the house of Atreus, because of war.

What are you hiding sir? Why don't you tell me, what do you know..

..about my father? The queen, you tell me please.

As soon as I've arrived, I saw you knew the bitter truth..

..but you don't have too much mercy. Tell me please, is my father dead?

We know something about your father, but we don't know if you can endure.

Be brave and listen to me carefully.

Your father lives, but he is like dead. Proteus tells me that.

*By Homer Proteus is sea god and by Herodotus a king of Egypt-Merenptah?*.

He has seen Odysseus surrounded by sea, without shipmates to return.

[Narrator: And Helen got an idea.]

[In the wine she pours a cure which softens anger and pain that gives oblivion]

[Those skills the daughter of Zeus knew, and that medicant gives her Polidamna *egiptian*.]

*That was when Menelaus returned from Troy and stranded in Egypt*

*relaxing music*

Drink wine and listen. I'll tell you what happened before..

..and you'll understand that anyway.

I want to tell you all the adventures of Odysseus,..

..but only those that I know.

[Narrator: So Helen starts:]

It was the last year of the war. I waited in Troy that arms..

..decide victory and to whom I'll belong.

I was in the temple of Apollo, and Cassandra..

..making offerings.

Oh Apollo! You who are only among gods..

..who stay favored to this wretched town, reveal me a secret!

They persecute me and I run. Give me a break. *Cassandra was..

*..condemned to foretell a future but no one to believe her*

-I won't harm you, just help me! -Who are you? From where? How did you come in?

I'm a frigian soldier, ally of the Trojans with whom..

..I fight Acheans for years to defend a city.

Last night against my will, I was drawn into battle..

..and barely escaped. They won't dare to search for me in a temple.

*fleeing to the temple provides protection. Thus sanctuary*

But you are all wounded! Your face..

..all smeared with blood. You scare me. Or I just see blood everywhere?

That's blood girl.. war spares no one..

..so not as miserable like myself. If you could give me something..?

Poor soldier,I can give you anything!

Except one advice. Run! Run if you can from this..

..condemded city full of corpses.

Why do you speak like that? Is prophecy speaking out of you?

You don't know me? Never heared of Cassandra,..

..daughter of Priam? The god Apollo speaks through me but no one will listen.

I'll listen. But how can I believe? You say the city will fall..

..but I see his high walls unconquered and defiant.

9 years the city stands the attacks of the Achean hordes..

..with so many heroes who conquered cities like this one.

Only one will be enough to ruin it.

Maybe you know that the town is out of food? Or water?

Or some illnes is among the defenders?

Oh listen Cassandra, at least her, listen Cassandra inspired by Apollo.

Wait stranger. I wanna to see you also!

Your face is tainted with blood, truly, but your wounds are strange.

They look as self-afflicted. Why? That they don't recognize you?

But you can't deceive me like you did with Cassandra.

You are not Frigian, friend of Troy, You are enemy!

You sneak into the city and mix with the wounded,..

..to commit some sabotage. You look like the face from the past.

You who come out of the darkness with a bloody face,..

..you are Odysseus I recognize you instantly..

..and shudder when I saw. I follow thee..

..to see shall you dare to come here in the temple,..

..near the house of Priam. What for? Why?

I knew I'll find you there. Why are you hiding here..

..near the altar, when the city will fall..

..and your husband will seek for you to redeem his honor?

That will never happen!

Under the condition that the Trojans don't revenge on you..

..for all the years of misery you brought on them! - You are a spy!

I've heared you! You deceive naive Cassandra..

..with news she didn't know about the war and the soldiers.

- I'll give you to them to kill you! - No, you won't do that..

..because in your heart you are still Greek, even if 10 years..

..we suffer all because of your guilt! - Enough. I don't want to listen any more!

I won't betray you, but I don't want to see you in the temple.

Leave me to my destiny. Leave me to my destiny whatever it is!

Tremble? Are you afraid? You the daughter of Zeus?

Helen, if you would return to Menelaus, all this would gone.

No Odysseus. If you only know..

..how much I cry because of the guilt aloted by Afrodite.

Afrodita or your lust?

The gods arrange our lives, so my lust doesn't count.

So what holds you here?

Only one person does trust me in this town and only he is worthy..

..of my pity. Father of this house-Priam.

Because of my guilt he lost his best sons:

..Hector is dead, Paris is dead, the most bravest Trojans dead..

..and others, many others, well didn't you hear Cassandra?,..

..Many will perish. Blood, always blood, and never reproach from Priam.

When I come here with Paris he accept me as his own daughter.

And I remain to him like a daughter and thus I'll remain to the end.

If you speak about the end of this city you won't wait too long.

I didn't want this war, I'm forced into it, and now I want only to finish it..

..no matter what. *Odysseus pretend mad to avoid war. He plough beach and sow salt*

All I saw in the city, perfectly fits into my plan.

What plan Odysseus? You are very famous because of your cunningness. *gk:metis*

Is that what you would like that people remember you for?

The acts of people brought me to such choice.

And if I must carry that burden, I'll carry it bravely.

Who knows how many times he remembered his words,..

..maybe even now, wherever he is.

[Narrator: Odysseus is in the throne room of Alcinoo court.] *gk: megaron i.e.mega room*

[His hosts leave him alone and he didn't know why.]

[But when the time arrives he discloses his true name..]

[..he was afraid that Feacians will hesitate to give him a ship to return to his homeland.]

[Because the name of the man tells his destiny..]

[..which he can't comprehend? *Odysseus=hatefull,wrathfull* He wasn't assured he was to return..]

[..secured by those who can everything. *gods* Thus thinks Odysseus..]

[..asking himself if is it prudent to disclose his past also.]

Forgive us we leave you alone. We assembled..

..to discuss your unexpected arrival. We never..

..thought we'll have glorious man among us.

Don't appologise Alcinous, I respect you too much.

Now you can better understand my eagerness to return..

..to my homeland. Your help restores me to life.

Why so much haste Odysseus? Don't you wish to rest for a while?

Tell us something about you. In 10 years you have..

..had many adventures. 10 years is too much. Tell us..

..about the adventures of a king who left Troy with an army..

..but comes alone on raft. About a man who was considered dead..

..and who wishes to be considered dead, since he hid his name from us.

We bring down the walls of Troy. I sailed with Menelaus and Nestor..

..but a sudden storm broke up the fleet.

With my ships I arrived in the land of Lestrygons. *Thrace in Greece*

My companions started to plunder the land. The Kikonians defended themselves..

..and killed a lot of my man. We left 72 unburied,..

..6 from every ship. Sailing against Big Dipper *north*,..

..around cape Malia *south of Greece* a strong current throw us..

..on the shores of the savage Lestrygonians. The company wants..

..to anchor in the harbor, but I wanted to scout the place first..

..and find the sentry point. It was justified to move..

..but the rest of them, carelessly, landed and..

..heared the sound of war. The other cries immediately appeared.

*In Odyssey, the episode with the Lestrigonians appears much later. Od.10,80*

There wasn't time to loose, and I retreat, but in the harbour..

..we saw the giant Lestrigonians throwing huge rocks on our ships destroying them.

People tried to escape by swimming but they were hunted down by the tridents like fish.

- And how did you escape? - They couldn't reach me..

..because I stayed out of the harbour. - Only your ship remained?

In the end, yes. We were the last company.

After the demise of the others, I became even more dear to them,..

..because they grew up with me, we were friends from childhood.

Today they are only names. Euriloch, my cousin.

On deck he was the helmsman *gk. kybernetes thus cybernetics*,and in combat my right hand.

He was sensible and wise. Filetor, on Ithaca we hunted..

..together. Once a wild boar wound me..

..in the thight and I still have a scar. Filetor grasps him..

..with both hands, overturns him and stabbed him to death.

Heraclio, I knew his family and sons.

Politus, the most strongest of all. Elpenor wasn't strong..

..and not qute wise but he was..

..wvry dear,more than others, just because he was week.

And thus from the army which left Ithaca, so few remain.

I realise how irrelevant things are..

..when I saw how the dark forces work..

..against our return. - What dark forces?

Which road would return us in the shortest way to Ithaca..

..that we never found? We get lost forever..

..on vast sea, without way. When we barely glimps our land,..

..storm would cast us away to roam again..

..till the next storm enrages the sea,..

..and I'll remember that till the end of my life. It was like..

.. some invisible giant hand, throwing the ship to the bottom of the abyss.

You are the great king Odysseus, but still you are only a man.

And according to what you are saying it seems you are a man who tries..

..to succeed alone with reason. Lets ask the gods for us and you Odysseus..

..maybe we find our answers and you find your answers.

*sounds of seagulls, sea and wind*

-Sacrifices give answer. -What answer?

Unfavorable. My people is scared. It couldn't interpret..

..so you'll. - Not me. I know that Athena was..

..always near me during fight in Troy,..

..thus with her beside me, I always knew what to do.

But when I was at sea I would hear voices of the gods.

Maybe thus is my heart restless and I want to know more.

Why are you hiding about your voyage?

-Why are you asking about it? -You have survived many things,and you have much..

..suffered.We realize that as soon you have arrived..

..and we show you our compassion. But if it is god..

..who is your enemy, as the omens say, tell us every secret.

I told you everything, everything I could understand from my..

..encounters with people and things. - Did you have encounter which..

..doesn't belong to the realm of men?

- Yes. - When? - One day we entered..

..into a river seeking drinking water -- -Please Odysseus..

..I would like you to tell us about that first this evening. - Yes.

We sail in a great river with sharp clifs.

We searched to anchor, to take some water.

By the stars I calculated that this was the shore of Lybia,..

..but the most distant shore from us, on the very edge of Oceanus..

..where the Sun sunks into the abyss. *Hercules pilars, as the border of Oceanus,..*

*..are discovered later* If this was correct,..

..then we were drawn away from home, not closer.

*sound of wind and splashes*

*Lybia was called by the Greeks all lands west of the Nile*

My men didn't know that, but I was restless and worried,..

..like I have a premonition, and also because we found things..

..which looked like someone left them.

I send 3 men in recconaissance mission in the morning,..

..just when we arrived. I hoped they will find something..

..by which I can navigate. After many hours, those men..

..didn't return and we all become nervous.

I was afraid of a new danger, as their disappearance..

..prolonged. I didn't know what to do.

3 more who won't see Ithaca again!

They must have fallen into a trap in this savage land.

*wind blows*

Odysseus, we should take a distance from the shores before the night falls.

If you are afraid, I'll go search for your shipmates.

I didn't wish to impose my will, I couldn't manage like in Troy,..

..where I had warriors beside me, not people that are scared for their lives.

Only by own example I could reestablish myself as a leader.

- And did they follow? - Three friends we have lost,..

..and if we would abandoned them to their fate, that would mean that we are united only in fear.

Fear for our wn survival, fear which isn't friendly..

..but only our enemy. Without a goal, without order, there is no hope.

But accepting this temptation, they followed me.

As we progress away from the river, The Sun becoms hotter.

The ground was scorched. We felt dry scent in the air,..

..the scent of some flower. And so we arrived into a village inhabited by men..

..who feed themselves with that flower bitten in mills.

*sound of mills*

I have already prepared myself to see my men..

..killed or in danger, but instead they sit there among blackskin people..

..behaving strangely and dressed as natives.

Why didn't you return to the ship? Because of this?

Odysseus, what are you afraid of?

They offered us their hospitality even they don't know the laws of Zeus.

Nature teaches them that, The lotus flower grows..

..and they make sweet powder from it. Taste, taste it!

It makes you forget everything like we never need to go from Ithaca.

Who waits for us there anyway? Who remembers us?

Your father Egyptius, remember him. Remember your bride that you have left..

..one month before marriage. She may raise you a son one day.

My father is old or dead, my brides sleep with another,

And my son, even if I had brothers, they wouldn't recognize me!

-What kind of father am I? -People only find new troubles,..

..so why then taking risk again? - Even at home suffering awaits us.

Eat this lotus. We'll stay in peace forever.

Truly, some divinity brought us into this land. *i.e. land of Lotuseaters*

As I live,I won't let someone forget his home.

Don't listen to him...

Take them to a ship! I order you to take them!

-Tie them! Don't listen to them. hey are out of their mind!

*lament and moan*

We found people like us.

As I understand, all what happened..

..is that there is a flower which removes memory or wish for it and the past.

Still, seeing those friends, I dreamt about returning..

..and because of the stretching of the ship I have the feeling..

..that winds, currents and forces beyond us..

..already have drawn us away from known sea routes.

We sailed for 18 days..

..and then came in a great archipelago..

..whose islands are near eachother. *sound of waves and ships wooden structure*

- Why don't you sleep Euriloch? - Why are you not sleeping? What..

..troubles you Odysseus? -Nothing,go to sleep..

..like others. Tomorow we go to hunt on island.

Why you need me if you are hidding your thoughts?

Why you don't tell me what troubles you?

Sky... Sky have no stars..

..since we left Lotuseaters.

Sky is clear, but no constellation visible. Very strange.

And a sailor cannot navigate if he hasn't guiding stars.

*To Acheans beside Grate Bear: Arcturus,Sirius,Orion,Pleiadees,Hyadees*

Odysseus,...

*It was navigated also by:Sun,Moon, waves,winds,birds.*

..we are lost.

Good sailor is never lost, and danger exist..

..only in our minds. Go to sleep.

One thing more isn't clear: on these islands,..

..we didn't find any human traces, even people often..

..go to sea. Is it possible that they never get there?

Do they avoid these lands or something hid them?

- But we did manage to get here. - Yes, but why?

Many unexplainable things happened..

..since we left Troy in flames: quarrel among the heroes,..

..disperse of the fleet, unnatural winds and storms..

..which cast us away from any known seas.

I don't know Euriloch where we are heading. I say that to you in confidence..

..but I beg you not to tell the others.

You must unite us Odysseus. So few have remain of us.

Think about us Odysseus, about our ship, and bring us home!

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