Odysseus and his men initially stop on an island dominated by one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes. Odysseus' ego gets the best of him and he tells the gods that he did it himself, which angers Poseidon (voiced by Miles Anderson) so much that he promises to make Odysseus' journey home to Penelope nearly impossible, mentioning that it was he who sent the sea monster to devour Laocoön. Laocoön ( Heathcote Williams) tries to warn the Trojans of a vision of this, but is suddenly devoured by a sea monster. The war lasts ten years, during which Greece's best soldier, Achilles ( Richard Trewett), is killed and the Greeks avenge him by using a giant horse to sneak inside and destroy the city of Troy. Odysseus is worried that he may not return, and tells Penelope that she should remarry by the time Telemachus is a man if he does not return. Odysseus ( Armand Assante), the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Ithaca, is called to service in the Trojan War after the birth of his son Telemachus, much to the dismay of his wife Queen Penelope ( Greta Scacchi). The cast includes Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Irene Papas, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters, Eric Roberts, Geraldine Chaplin, Jeroen Krabbé, Christopher Lee and Vanessa Williams.Īt the 49th Primetime Emmy Awards the series won the award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or Special. It was filmed in Malta, Turkey, parts of England and many other places around the Mediterranean, where the story takes place. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the miniseries aired in two parts beginning on May 18, 1997, on NBC. The Odyssey is a 1997 American mythology– adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, the Odyssey. “Within the hero’s mind his joys renew’d” (Aeneid 5: 904) and so he eagerly sets sails for the new homeland.Poster with Calypso, Athena, and Penelope (left to right) below Odysseus In contrast, Aeneas returns with the vision of the great future and he is now decisive to work hard for it. So Odyssey becomes aware of futility of war that sends heroes to this dark place. Achilles says that he would rather be a living serf and a landless peasant than a King of the Dead. Homer has a gloomy idea of the underworld. Odyssey’s dead friends the can only tell how they died and got to this dark kingdom. For example, when Odyssey meets Trojan heroes like Patroclus, they run away frightened, as if the struggle for Troy still went on. In fact, for Homer living after death is just a continuation of earthly vain. Homer describes the underworld as a dull place of suffering, where warriors who died in battle have to continue carrying their wounds. Meeting his father he symbolically passes through the golden gate to become a recognized ruler, and a tool of destiny that has chosen to make Aeneas’s people great. In contrast to Odyssey, Aeneas’s purpose is choosing the way. Her suicide and sorrowful events in Ithaca is a kind of punishment for Odyssey’s false pride. In Hades he meets his mother of whom he did not know that she was dead. He says that he “had to come down here to Hades’ home, to meet the he shade of Teiresias of Thebes, and hear his prophecy”. He would perhaps never go to Hades, in case there was another way to Ithaca. Odyssey is driven by “unhappy fate below the sunlight” (Odyssey 11:798-799), and his ultimate purpose is finding the way. But when Circe learns that Odyssey has no love for her, she nobly explains him that the only man who knows the way to Ithaca is Tiresias who can be found only in the afterworld. Odyssey also has a kind of dream on Circe’s island where he spends seven years thinking that only seven days have passed.
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