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Odyssey is the story of Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca, on his way home from fighting in the Trojan War. His journey takes ten years - on the high seas, he encounters the cyclops, the lotus-eaters, the alluring sirens as well as the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece that readers have come to know and love
ODYSSEY, is the final volume in Stephen Fry globally bestselling Greek myths series, this September. ODYSSEY retells the journeys home of Odysseus, Agamemnon, Helen and Aeneas as they return from the Trojan War.
Troy has fallen. After ten years of war, the Greeks make their way back to their own lands – but what homes now await them?
Agamemnon must return to his wife Clytemnestra, who has been nursing her rage since he sacrificed their daughter to the Gods for a favourable wind. Her revenge will know no bounds. Meanwhile, Odysseus has angered the God Poseidon and he is cursed to wander the seas, facing angry monsters and possessive demi-gods as he attempts to return to Ithaca and his patient, clever wife Penelope.
A story of great adventure, heroic exploits and sometimes brutal reckonings, ODYSSEY proves that the journey home is just as astonishing, magical, sorrowful and triumphant as the adventure that preceded it.
Stephen Fry said: ‘The adventures - bloody, romantic, terrifying, magical and comical - that Odysseus and his comrades undergo during the course of their journeys home from Troy are still the most thrilling and compelling I know. To retell them and follow in the wake of these extraordinary characters has been the ride of my life. Their Odyssey still speaks so powerfully about the yearning for home that all humans feel. The Greeks called the homeward journey nostos, and the pain of being away, nostalgia. I am already feeling nostalgic for wily Odysseus, Penelope, Agamemnon, Electra, Dido and all those wayward and wonderful gods.’