Narrator

Non-intrusive, third person, omniscient.

Genre

The inverse of Magic Realism. The characters are living in a fantastical once-upon-a-time universe which is intruded upon without remark by modern ideas and inventions.

Opening Characters

• Odysseus.
  Her goal is to make it home to her family, though by now her resolve is waning.
• Princess Nausicaa, Queen Arete, and King Alkinoos.
  At first their goal is to have Odysseus marry Nausicaa and join their family, then they become interested in hearing Odysseus' story.
• Athena.
  Phe is Odysseus' closest protector and is determined to see Odysseus makes it home.

Place and Situation

Odysseus is stranded on an island after a storm. She is intent on going home, but it has been a long and arduous journey across an ancient-Greek-like world

Narrator

Non-intrusive, third person, omniscient.

Genre

The inverse of Magic Realism. The characters are living in a fantastical once-upon-a-time universe which is intruded upon without remark by modern ideas and inventions.

Opening Characters

• Telemakhe.
  Her goal is to be reunited with her mother and find a solution to the presence of troublesome suitors.
• Odysseus and Penelopos.
  Their goals are to form and remain a loving and responsible family.
• Athena.
  Her goal is to prepare Telemakhe to face the suitors with her mother.

Place and Situation

Telemakhe is under siege in her own home, an ancient-Greek-like palace, by suitors who wish to use marriage to her as a way to gain power over Ithaka. Her father is a grieving artist who cannot help her in removing the suitors.

Characters face challenges

• Odysseus must convince the local royalty to give her passage without endangering herself due to her circumstances.
• Odysseus struggles with how much of herself she feels she can safely reveal.
• Demodokos tells of the relationship between Hephaistos and Aphrodite and the challenge of couples to allow themselves to be vulnerable with one another.
• Demodokos tells of how Odysseus helps keep Sparta from war by organising Helen's marriage. Helen, not understanding the value of her marriage, runs off with Paris and becomes the cause of war anyway. Odysseus finally hatches a plan to return Helen to her husband and end the war.
• Odysseus must keep her crew under control, failing that she has to battle off locals and help her crew make it back to their ship for escape.
• Odysseus must rescue her crew from drug addiction.
• Odysseus and her crew face the challenge of escaping a hungry Cyclops who has them trapped in its cave. Blinding the Cyclops puts the challenge of dealing with an angry deific parent before them.
• A curious crew causes dangerous winds to be released and they must all battle the elements.
• Unfriendly natives seek to eat Odysseus and crew; they must escape.
• A reclusive demi-deity turns half of Odysseus' crew into swine. Odysseus must have them turned back and seek the deity's help. Odysseus and the deity form a personal and intimate relationship.
• Odysseus listens to the shades of friends, family and remarkable individuals talk about the nature of their family relationships. She is also told about her journey home.
• Odysseus enlists the aid of her crew to keep from succumbing to the power of the Sirens' voices.
• Odysseus and crew must do what they can to survive passing the monsters Skylla and Kharybdis.
• Odysseus must keep a hungry crew from eating humanly poisonous cattle of the deities.
• Odysseus forms a relationship with another demi-deity, then must face the challenge of how to break up with this being.

Challenges create change

Odysseus gains the experience to potentially teach her either compassion and what is truly of value in life, or perhaps bitterness and a greater willingness to strike out.

Characters face challenges

• Odysseus does what she can to avoid going with a pair of messengers sent to involve her in a war.
• Telemakhe and her father Penelopos must fend off power hungry suitors.
• Telemakhe must find the self confidence to meet with the royalty of other nations and ask after news of her mother, Odysseus.
• Nestor tells of smooth sailing home for himself, but of how Agamemnon was killed because his poor relationship with his wife ended with her turning to another who wished to take over Agamemnon's throne.
• Menelaus tells of travelling home and getting to know his wife better. He also tells of gaining predictions by wrestling and defeating Proteus. The deity in pers predictions speaks of Odysseus' own delayed homecoming.
• Helen tells of her inner struggle to understand the difference between romantic love and devoted love, and how Odysseus returned her to her dearest husband.
• Telemakhe must find a way home that will keep her from being attacked by the suitors.

Challenges create change

Telemakhe becomes a more self-confident adult.

Odysseus shooting Antinoos to:

1. Kill. Eurymakhos takes over. He forces Telemakhe to marry him and banishes her family.
2. Wound. Antinoos in a fury sets the suitors to murdering the whole family.

Odysseus and Telemakhe killing all of the suitors. The suitors' families then kill the entire royal family.

Odysseus ordering the suitors to leave. Athena intervenes to save the family and convinces the Ithakans to banish the suitors.

Odysseus and family escaping to Pylos where they live happily ever after.