The gods agree that Odysseus must leave Calypso’s Isle of Ogygia and return home.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Not knowing if his father is alive or dead, Telemachus, Odysseus’ grown son, tries to reason with greedy suitors who have overrun the house and seek to marry his mother, Penelope. Taunted by them, he then secretly sails to Pylos in search of news about his father.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
In Pylos, Telemachus feasts with Nestor and hears tales about the fates of the Greeks returning from the Trojan War, but hears no substantive news of Odysseus. He continues his search to Sparta..
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
At Sparta, Menelaus fives Telemachus hope his father may be alive by recounting a meeting with Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Odysseus builds a raft and sets sail from Ogygia. Poseidon creates massive waves, the raft is smashed and Odysseus struggles to reach Scheria.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Exhausted and naked, Odysseus hides himself and sleeps. He is awakened by the voices of Princess Nausicaa and her maidens.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
King Alcinous and Queen Arete make the shipwrecked stranger welcome and promise to see him safely on his way.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
During a banquet a mistrel sings of Troy and Odysseus us visibly moved. He is asked to reveal who he is and to tell of his adventures.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Odysseus tells of his escape from the Cyclops Polyphemus.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Odysseus describes his visit to the enchantress Circe, who changed his men into pigs.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Odysseus describes his voyage to Hades.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Odysseus tells of his departure from Circe past the Sirens Scylla and Charybdis. As a result of his men slaughtering Zeus’ cattle, their ship was destroyed and this was how he became stranded on Calypso’s Isle.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
King Alcinous gives Odysseus safe passage to Ithaca where Athena counsels him and changes him into an old beggar.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
His swineherd Eumaeus warmly welcomes the old stranger without recognizing Odysseus.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
After leaving Sparta Telemachus returns to Ithica. He, too, goes to Eumaeus’ hut.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Odysseus reveals himself to Telemachus. They discuss how to deal with the suitors.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Odysseus, in the guise of a beggar, returns to his house. He is abused by the leader of the suitors, Antinous.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Odysseus, provoked and ignoring the role he is playing, thrashes the town beggar, Irus.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
The old nurse Euryclea washes the old beggars feet and recognizes him as Odysseus by the scar on his leg.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Ctesippus hurls a bone at Odysseus – Disaster impends.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Penelope brings out Odysseus’ bow as a test for the suitors. They are unable to string it. The “old beggar” strings and shoots the bow easily. The suitors are worried.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
With the first arrow into Antinous, Odysseus and Telemachus begin the slaughter of all the suitors.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Penelope, convinced at last that the “old beggar” was just a guise, embraces Odysseus and hears from him his story.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper
Civil war in Ithica is prevented by Athena.
2007, 24 sheets: 25.5 × 19.75 inches (each), oil-based woodblock print on paper