12/18/2023 0 Comments Ulysses greekUlysses directs his men to explore the island and soon encounters the lovely but treacherous enchantress, Circe. Later, however, the wind dies and the ship stalls near the shore of another island. The Sirens tease and torment Ulysses by imitating Penelope's and Telemachus' voices, but despite Ulysses' cries, the crew steers the ship safely past the island. Although Ulysses instructs his men to plug up their ears, he also insists on being tied to the ship's mast so that he can listen to the Sirens' song without danger. Sometime later, the ship passes near an island haunted by Sirens, female spirits known for seducing sailors with their beautiful voices and cajoling them to crash their ships on the island's deadly rocks. The men flee to the beach and set sail, one step ahead of the enraged Polyphemus. After the cyclops passes out, Ulysses and his men poke his eye out with a burning stick, then trick him into moving the big boulder that serves as the cave's door. Ulysses schemes to make wine from the local grapes and gets Polyphemus drunk. After devouring one of Ulysses' men, Polyphemus drinks the humans' wine and roars for more. There, they find penned-in sheep, huge rounds of cheese and enormous tools, and soon are confronted by the cave's resident, the one-eyed Polyphemus, the giant son of Neptune. While searching for food, the men stumble upon a giant footprint and follow the sound of bleating sheep into a large cave. Staring at the sea, he finally recalls being on a storm-rocked ship, yelling orders to his men to toss Trojan booty overboard: The ship survives the storm, and the men disembark on a seemingly deserted island. Ulysses, meanwhile, prepares to wed Nausicaa but, tormented by his blank past, returns to the beach where he was found and tries to remember. Pressured by Antinous, Penelope agrees to choose her new husband at the start of the upcoming games honoring the god Apollo. At the same time, the manly Antinous arrives in Ithaca, insisting that it is his destiny to marry Penelope. In Ithaca, Penelope's fears about the tapestry are realized after a servant exposes her secret to the suitors. Later, Nausicaa dubs Ulysses "Stamos," or the strong one, and the two kiss. Soon after, during a public wrestling match, Ulysses challenges the ferocious champion and stuns the crowd when he wins. Although the ragged Ulysses has lost his memory, Nausicaa and her father, King Alcinous, sense he is of noble birth and welcome him into their palace. On a Phaeacian island beach near Ithaca, meanwhile, Ulysses is found unconscious by the beautiful princess Nausicaa. Penelope, who made a deal with her suitors that she would re-marry as soon as she finishes a tapestry depicting Ulysses' deeds, points out that her suitors will eventually figure out that, at night, she secretly unravels the day's weaving, delaying the tapestry's completion. Fed up, Telemachus tells his mother he is leaving to search for Ulysses, but she begs him to stay. Back in Ithaca, Penelope stops the storyteller and rails against her suitors, who are nonplussed, even when her grown son Telemachus demands they vacate the house. Witnessing the destruction, soothsayer Cassandra utters a curse against Ulysses, condemning him to suffer the wrath of Neptune. Caught unaware, the Trojans are easily defeated by Ulysses, who, in his zeal, destroys the Trojans' temple to Neptune, god of the sea. When the Trojans open the gates of their walled city to accept the gift, they discover that the horse is filled with Ulysses' soldiers. Although most in Ithaca presume Ulysses dead and are pressuring Penelope to re-marry, Penelope clings to her belief that Ulysses will soon return and listens as an old storyteller relates the tale of Ulysses' Trojan Horse: In Troy, after ten years of battle, Ulysses concedes defeat and presents the Trojans with an enormous wooden horse. In the ancient Greek city of Ithaca, Penelope, devoted wife of Ulysses, Ithaca's ruler, laments the hordes of rowdy suitors who have taken up residence in her home since her husband's disappearance from Troy ten years earlier.
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