The Odyssey, an epic to be completed
The Mycenaean world plays an essential role in understanding the great upheavals of the late Bronze Age.
The great kingdoms around the Aegean Sea were wiped out, with the exception of Pharaonic Egypt. "Was the Trojan War an armed conflict like so many others, or the cause of history's first revolution, or even a hitherto unprecedented civilizational collapse?
A few years before the collapse of the Mycenaean world, at the end of a twenty-year epic, ten years of war on the lands of "Ilios" (Troy), then ten years on the seas, landing in inhospitable lands populated by mythological creatures, resisting (modestly) the goddesses and nymphs "euplokamos" ("with beautiful curls" ) sent to lead him astray, Calypso, Nausicaa and Circe, the most famous of the Mycenaean kings returned home.
South of the Tyrrhenian Sea, Ithaca and its neighbors form the heart of Odysseus' kingdom.
Kerkyra (now Corfu), Lefkada (Lefkada), Kefalonia (Kefalonia), Zakynthos and a little higher up, Paxos and anti-Paxos, where Lakka and Gaios hide.
Magical refuges for those who love sails, bows that ripple the surface and glide like drops of ink in clear water, shrouds that whistle when the wind picks up.
These places still hold the secret of his final resting place.
Penelope and Telemachus found him, but we lost him.
Complicating the search for the archetypal hero, the missing king has two names: Ulysses for some, Odysseus for others (below)
1- The Iliad, the genesis of war, a story of details.
2- The Odyssey, ode to return and divine curse
3- Penelope, model of motherhood and fidelity
4- Rigid Greek morality: loyalty and virtue
5- Circe the nymph magician: why give in to a mortal?
6- Ulysses, between virtue and eternal passion.
7- The Greek hero's suffering and persecution (The Telegony)
8- Personal interpretation of this long story
THE REST IS HERE - (if you're interested in the turbulent relationships between the hero, nymphs, monsters and goddesses)
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