The Odyssey

The Odyssey follows the epic ten-year journey of King Odysseus home after the Trojan War. Along the way he must survive a hurricane sent by the God Poseidon, escape imprisonment by the nymph Calypso, a murderous Cyclopes who traps his crew in a cave, and the fearsome monsters Scylla and Sirens. Finally after reaching Ithaca he must defeat the Suitors who threaten his wife Penelope and son Telemachus in a climatic battle to the death.