Ulysses of Ithaca

The retelling follows a wily hero's long, perilous attempt to return home after war, chronicling shipwrecks, enchantments, and encounters with monsters and sorceresses. Gods alternately hinder and aid him, and a framed narrative lets him recount episodes such as the encounter with a one-eyed giant, the spell of a witch, the Lotus-Eaters, the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, and the refuge among the Phæacians. At home his faithful wife endures suitors' depredations while his son matures, and the work culminates in a disguised homecoming, a contest that settles the suitors' fate, and a reunion with his family.