Retells the Ithacan leader's struggle to return home from Troy in a chronological prose narrative that keeps the rhythms and power of his conflicts with the gods and mythological creatures of the epic poem.
Retells Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son are forced to scheme to protect his throne.
Odysseus begins his long journey home after years of fighting during the Trojan War, but he and his men encounter monsters and ghastly creatures, are imprisoned, and face raging seas that threaten their safe return.
