The Greek island of Ithaca was independent in the 8th century B.C. The Trojan War has been over for ten years, and the Greeks have won. Only Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, is missing. He is lost at sea. The island's economy is getting worse by the day because all of the princes in the area have invaded the kingdom, taken all of its resources, and put pressure on Queen Penelope to find a new husband. To make her suitors wait, she tells them she will choose once she's finished weaving King Laertes' burial shroud. But every night, she takes back everything she did. Odysseus's son Telemachus doesn't dare claim his father's throne. His only dream is to sail out to save Odysseus. Everything speeds up when a traveling musician wakes up Penelope's buried feelings. Who will be the King? The liar Leocrites? The true heir to Telemachus? Or the seductive traveler Eukharistos? Or will Odysseus make it back in time to take over? Unless the two Trojan slaves Clea and Eurynome cause total chaos in Ithaca, Through the stories of these four main characters, Telemachus, Penelope, Clea, and Leocrites, ODYSSEUS gives Greek mythology's greatest story a new twist and reveals its darkest secrets.
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The Greek island of Ithaca was independent in the 8th century B.C. The Trojan War has been over for ten years, and the Greeks have won. Only Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, is missing. He is lost at sea. The island's economy is getting worse by the day because all of the princes in the area have invaded the kingdom, taken all of its resources, and put pressure on Queen Penelope to find a new husband. To make her suitors wait, she tells them she will choose once she's finished weaving King Laertes' burial shroud. But every night, she takes back everything she did. Odysseus's son Telemachus doesn't dare claim his father's throne. His only dream is to sail out to save Odysseus. Everything speeds up when a traveling musician wakes up Penelope's buried feelings. Who will be the King? The liar Leocrites? The true heir to Telemachus? Or the seductive traveler Eukharistos? Or will Odysseus make it back in time to take over? Unless the two Trojan slaves Clea and Eurynome cause total chaos in Ithaca, Through the stories of these four main characters, Telemachus, Penelope, Clea, and Leocrites, ODYSSEUS gives Greek mythology's greatest story a new twist and reveals its darkest secrets.
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