Book 18: The Beggar and the Braggart
Inside his own palace, the disguised Odysseus faces a new challenge when another beggar, Irus, picks a fight to impress the suitors. With Athena’s hidden help, Odysseus wins the brawl in dramatic fash...
20 Jul 4min
Book 17: The Beggar King Enters the Palace
Odysseus, disguised as a ragged beggar, returns to his own palace for the first time in twenty years. He is met with a heartbreaking reunion with his loyal old dog Argos, mockery and violence from the...
20 Jul 4min
Book 16: Father and Son Reunited
After twenty long years apart, Odysseus and Telemachus finally meet face to face in the swineherd’s humble hut. Tears, recognition, and deep emotion mark the moment — but there is urgent work to do. F...
20 Jul 5min
Book 15: The Return of Telemachus
While Odysseus bonds with the loyal swineherd Eumaeus, Telemachus receives a divine warning and hurries home from Sparta. Athena guides him safely past the suitors’ ambush. Upon reaching Ithaca, the y...
19 Jul 4min
Book 14: The Loyal Swineherd
Disguised as a ragged beggar, Odysseus seeks out his most loyal servant: the humble swineherd Eumaeus. In a modest hut far from the chaos of the palace, he finds genuine hospitality and unwavering dev...
19 Jul 5min
Book 13: The Return to Ithaca
Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca after twenty long years — but not in triumph. Still disguised by Athena as an old beggar, he wakes on his own shore, tests the loyalty of his faithful swineherd Eumaeus...
19 Jul 5min
Book 12: Monsters of the Deep
Odysseus and his crew sail straight into the most terrifying dangers yet: the deadly song of the Sirens, the six-headed monster Scylla, and the crushing whirlpool Charybdis. After surviving these horr...
18 Jul 5min
Book 11: The Journey to the Underworld
Odysseus descends into the realm of the dead in search of the prophet Tiresias. There, among the pale shades of fallen heroes and forgotten loved ones, he confronts the ghosts of his past and hears ch...
18 Jul 7min
