...Odysseus and Eumeus in the mean time came to the city...
...The swineherd gives his master a stab and a sack...
...making him to look even more as a beggar.
And the people they met said: Really, that man is with those...
...that look most like him. Look at the swineherd leading the beggar.
I can see that you changed Penelope, you have become more handsome.
- What excites that beauty? - You are lying.
He only exults your beauty queen. He was just being honest, as always...
...as the rest of us when we admire. - My beauty doesn't exist anymore...
...since my husband disappeared.
Why then, are we here?
Not for me.
Even more handsome, the goddess makes her...
Silence, comrades!
...toller...
Penelope wishes to say us something.
...whiter than ivory.
It was always custom, that when the nobleman wanted to marry...
...that he bring with him wedding gifts, and not to plunder the woman.
Is this some childish trick? Another way to buy some time?
No, we don't believe you: You'll comply soon.
If you want wedding gifts, you'll get them this evening...
...but don't even think we shall abandon this house before you have made your choice.
Even more handsome and more attractive, the goddess made her...
Friends, tomorrow we'll know who'll be king of Ithaca.
...more whiter than ivory...
Let us continue enjoying the queen's hospitality.
...but she didn't let her see her husband.
He just crossed the doorstep and watched everything.
His should be tormented between joy and pain.
I'll stand here. It's better they don't see us together.
The princes know my loyalty, so they enjoy humiliating me.
And they'll humiliate you even more because of me.
Argos!
The name of that dog is Argos. Odysseus himself...
...raised him and go on hunting.
You recognize me...after so many years.
Odysseus erased his tears secretly, and Argos...
...died after seeing his master after twenty years.
What do you want here beggar? Who are you? Do you wish for food without work?
Then Odysseus entered as a beggar...
...old and miserable...
...with a wretched body dressed in rags.
Euriclea! Give him this bread...
...and tell him not to be shy, but to ask.
- Telemachus gives you this. - Let Zeus protect you...
The pretenders murmur in the court room...
...and Athena comes to encourage Odysseus and pushed him...
...to pickup the remains of the pretenders...
...to see who among them is just and who is not.
But they want to escape punishment anyway
- Gimme little Sir. - Who's this?
- Please, give me mercy. - Who are you beggar?
They were all young to Odysseus.
He watched them drinking oblivious of their sin...
...and asked himself who'll avoid his wrath.
- A little bit for the old man. - Go away!
Telemachus are we deficient with beggars? And are all of them strangers?
And you even complain that we eat everything from you!
I'm grateful to you Eurimachus to worry for me...
...but don't, because I allow him to beg.
Go!
Mercy I ask. Thank you, let Zeus reward you.
You give me also, friend, you who have posture of a great gentleman...
Who is more rich, let him give more. That's the rule in my land of Crete...
...island of Minos, you've heared? I was also powerful once...
...and give. I've had servats, estates, herds, houses, but Zeus...
...crumbled me to this state. Misfortune suddenly came:
...I've have nine pretty ships, and went to Egypt for grain...
...but my friends started to devastate the fields, ruin everything...
...raping women, killing men, and I paid for all.
He paid for all... and we'll pay for him!
- You are Antinoüs? One of the princes...
...who never gives nothing to anyone, not even a grain of salt...
...nor a piece of bread which isn't yours anyway.
In Telemachus heart the sorrow arose...
...because of the humiliation of his father, but still he didn't shed a tear.
He watched in silence, in his heart devising a plot.
It's one thing to be wounded in battle, a different thing to be beaten...
...because you are hungry. If there is a god for poor men, you'll pay.
Shut up and get out, or I'll throw you away.
Stranger come.
Last night I dreamed a strange dream: Twenty geese ate some grain...
...in this house. Not too long from the great mountain eagle descending...
That's a beggar, he came from afar.
...and break necks to those geese. What's the meaning of that?
Why didn't you listen stranger who has come?
Here is Ir, we'll have some fun. Two dogs around same bone!
He was known beggar...
...always ready to drink and eat. Arnos is his name.
That's name given to him at birth, but all called him...
...Ir...because he brings news.
Who is this? He took my place!
Get lost now, if you don't want me to grasp you with my hands, you miserable!
Irus! Bravely! Shake him out of his skin. Go on!
Hear them? Run till you can. Don't make me break your bones.
What I have done wrong to you, friend?
You are like me, so do what I do. Take what they give you...
...there is a room for everyone. - What are you saying you idiot?
There is place only for me. Now you'll spit your teeths.
Don't challenge me.
Wait gentlemen, now there'll be a show.
C'mon, amuse us punks. Here is your reward:
...he who wins take this, he that looses, gets out.
I'll fight because I'm hungry, but promise you'll want to beat me later?
Enough talking. Get out and fight!
Start fighting fools!
Then Odysseus, covered intimate places...
...but reveal his mighty arms, hights and muscles...
show himself with his broad shoulders...
...and Athena strenghten his arms...
...which used to tame the strong.
Odysseus struck below the ear...
...and broke his bone inside.
From the mouth the crimson blood emerged...
Narratorand Chorus: ...and with a scream he fell to dust...
...gnawing teeth, he struck the ground.
Odysseus then said with pity to Irus:...
...sit there and forsake the dogs and the pigs from the doorstep...
...instead to believe that you are a king of beggars:...
...the miserable always remain miserable.
This is yours.
And now friends, let everyone go to his home.
The queen asks for wedding gifts.
This night let everyone send his own gifts, so not to loose time...
...Because she looks impatient to make her choice.
- You fought well old man. - Thank you. You are Amfinomus...
...son of Nisus, right? I met your father in battle.
Listen me for a moment: There is nothing more misfortuned than a man:
...till it's good, he believes that it all the time will be like that...
...but he doesn't understand that today or tomorrow, everything can change.
...Your friends behave as if punishment will never come.
Well, you don't say? The beggar who becomes a prophet!
Go further away from this home and don't come back!
- Stranger, my mistress send me. She want to speak with you. - Now?
Yes now, its a queen who is interested in you.
No, not now, after dusk.
Aninous...Leucritus...Eurimachus!
...quickly...finish it...
Even at night you are here to bother. Now you'll see!
- Sit, I want to speak with you. - To sit? No, queen...
...I'm only a poor beggar. - Guests and the poor are the same to me...
...please. - Let me on place for beggars.
Who are you? How did you get here? Why are you so restrained? Why so shy?
Why? Everyone can see that you have suffered.
Exactly because of that, you'll be respected in this house. I know about pain.
Thus she said, and he wished to cry.
Like the wish of a shipwreck sailor, whom Poseidon...
...smashed the ship at sea, overcome by winds...
...and big waves, from which so few sailors escape from in the white sea...
...swimming to a shore, with the skin scorched by salt...
...and with the urge for solid ground, for salvation from death...
...so he wished for his wife looks.
- So speak. I ask you who are you.
If I tell you my story, you'll think I'm liar...
And it's not I that interests you, but your husband. And I saw him...
You saw Odysseus. He went to Troy for so many years ago.
Give me some proof that you saw him. What do you remember?
Twenty years have past. Many summers. But I remember...
...he had a red cloak, with a golden button...
...on which is depicted a dog grasping deer.
And the deer tries to escape. Such cloak he had.
Stranger, how do you know all that? Who are you?
Well, I...I am... I am Eton.
The city in which I grew up was Knossos.
But you are...Odysseus.
My father is Deucalion, offspring of Minos, son of the great Zeus.
My brother is Idomeneus. He went to Troy...
...and he is one of few to return.
If it's you Odysseus, why you don't tell me?
Your glory queen claimed that you are a great woman.
Odysseus!
You'll sleep here tonight. I'll order to prepare you a bed.
Euriclea, take care for the guest. He isn't a beggar...
...but Eton from Crete. He use to be a king.
He is the same age like your master. We mortals quickly grow old.
You know whom you look like? The master. You have the same posture, the same voice.
I know, I think the same.
Master, honored by your old nurse, who knows where you are?
You live in some house like this, and are begging for a crust of bread.
Humiliated, forsaken, you serve the strong...
...who oppress you.
She washed the legs of her master...
...and looked for scars which bore inflicts...
...with his tusk, when he hunted the young.
Odysseus! Odysseus, my child! I didn't recognize you...
You were all time in front of me - -
Be silent, don't betray me, or I can't defend you!
You seem so prudent and clever, stranger. Give me some advice.
Speak.
You know that my house is invaded for years by the pretenders.
And my son grows impatient to get rid of me. What should I do?
Wait. Odysseus shall return and execute justice.
No. I wish tomorrow to propose a competition to the pretenders:
...the first who succeeds to string a bow which Odysseus left me...
...and loose the arrow thru 12 hollows of axes...
...will become my husband.
And thus father and son concealed the beautiful weapons...
...and when a miraculous light showed them the way...
...before Telemachus could talk, Odysseus said:
...Say nothing. That's all usual for the gods of heaven.
The night passes very slowly...
...and Penelope with sorrow looked at her wedding bed.
Artemis, daugther of Zeus, shoot me with your arrow...
...or let the storm carry me like a mist.
Let me die.
Thus she spoke inside and Odysseus heared her.
He began to doubt. He thought in his head...
...that, since he saw Penelope, now he will sleep beside her.
You awoke from a dream, You the most misfortuned amongst man...
...because you are here in your home, and with your wife in your house...
...and still you are a stranger.
Suddenly the dawn came on her golden throne.
To fulfill what the goddess expects from me...
...who returned me to my home, please Zeus...
...that you inspire someone in the house, and give a clear omen.
At the mill, only one woman left, the others were gone.
This one was the oldest and just finished her job.
Now she'll speak, listen!
You thundered, and there was no cloud...
...meaning you want to give someone an omen.
And I'll listen, even if I'm only a servant:
...The pretenders eat for the last time in Odysseus' house...
...this flower which broke my back.
Quick, quick. You with sponges, clear the tables.
The princes are almost here.
Faster, e'll eat more abundant like being on a holiday.
Euriclea, how do you serve our guest? - Not good...
...but it's not my fault, he didn't want the bed...
...but he fell asleep on rags and covered with ox hide.
From the fields came Eumeus. He also, like Euriclea...
...and Telemachus, couldn't call Odysseus by name.
- Who is the shepherd? - Filoteus, son of Dolius.
- You bought him as a kid? - The Kid did grow up!
He again started to think that...
...he is alone. He again started to think...
...that he is alone.
Why with weapons thrown on the pretenders...
Narrator and Chorus: ...with only one young man and a swineherd...
...endeavor is too dangerous. But he felt Athena's presence and her rebuke:
You fool...
...someone else would be content with the help of even weaker frends than these...
...and they are even oblivious of the future. And you don't trust me even if I'm a goddess...
...who helped you always, even in all dangers.
- Nice animal. - Greetings to you old man.
Filoteus, the stranger isn't a beggar...
...but was a glorious warrior before.
the same can be said of our master:
...maybe he also travels in rags around world...
...if he isn't already dead. - Maybe you know him?
Yes, but I don't remember.
...Of course, he was only a child when he was appointed to guard the best flocks...
...and Odysseus didn't find any better. No one could...
...watch for cattle like him. Like it's his own.
Good, I see you are a loyal servant. Thus I shall reveal you a secret:
...your master Odysseus is returning.
- Returning? When? - Don't yell.
Just tell me only one thing. If he returned, what would you do? - What would I do?
- Yes. - I believe these muscles woul be of good use to him.
The pretenders arrived...
...just like every morning to Odysseus house...
...where the big sheep was prepared for them...
...fat goats, porks and calfs from the herd.
The inwards were prepared first.
Than the meat was fried and parted, than the bread partaken...
...and the cups of wine, all the food settled and served...
...and the meal began.
An abundant and sweet meal, and even many animals were slaugtered...
...no meal shall be more bitter than this...
...when for him the goddess and hero soon arrived.
Narrator and Chor: Stand up now, and boast with the wine Telemachus gave you...
...because Athena wants to upset the pretenders...
...that they insult you more, and that your rage and hatred...
...stronger then ever, fill your breasts.
In fact, one of them is already put in a game, proud lord...
...named Ctesipus of Samos.
As you can see, the beggar has his part just as us.
How nicely that fits with the guests of Telemachus!
And I want to give him something nice, a gift of hospitality...
...to feed him for today and tomorrow.
Thus he said and threw a beef thigh.
Odysseus duck to avoid being hit but in his heart he bitterly smiled.
All at once became quiet.
Nothing of those which breath or walks on the ground...
...is more unhappier than man.
This was uncontrollable laughter...
...because Athena messed with their minds.
They laughed eating simultaneously the meat and the blood.
They laughed with their eyes full of tears.
The whole court ominously echoed from their laughter.
Even the prophet Teoclimenus heared.
He came to hear and to declare the divine omen.
Wretched fools! You should weep!
Don't you see the utter destruction howling above your heads?
Your eyes are covered with darkness!
I see the walls sprinkled with blood! I see the court room full of shadows!
Shadows which go into the kingdom of darkness, forewer.
The sun is obliterated. The dark night of death covers all.
- Yet another lunatic!
We grow tired of these people. They annoy us.
Just look what guests Telemachus has: lunatics and beggars!
Listen Telemachus,I'll give you an advice:
...why don't we board them on a ship and sell them to the Sicilians?
I'm assured someone will buy them cheaply!
I don't need your advice Eurimachus. The only person here...
...who can give me that is my mother. I won't tolearate your insults anymore.
You wished to kill me, but luckily that didn't happen.
Till then, don't insult my guests at the table!
I'm no longer a child, remember that!
Telemachus speaks sharply to scare us. Unfortunately...
...Zeus didn't wish to help us, or he wouldn't talk anymore.
Nor some speech, nor some strenght, slow down. We won't tolerate your insult!
You warned them Teoclimenus.
You give them a chance to save themselves. They didn't comply.
So they near towards the end of this excellent meal...
...abundant from many slaughtered animals.
Yet, there was another meal preparing to begin...
...which soon goddess and hero...
...with pretty much different schedule alloted to them.
The evening falls.
Athena incited Penelope's heart...
...that moment at which that competition with the bow commences.
That bow was given to Odysseus twenty years ago, from one guest...
...and when he was young he could easily string it.
That Penelope remembers...
...how she now looked tired and old...
...and in the midst of enemies.
The queen!
She suddenly appeared in the doors...
...which leads to her chamber.
They look at her and the giant bow. Instantly they thought...
...that she'll finally tell them who is in her heart.
The princes!
I proposed this competition. Those among you who string the bow...
...and loose the arrow through 12 axes...
...that man I'll marry.
He can lead me from this house...
...and he'll become king of Ithaca.
Eumeus!
Swineherd, give me that bow!
C'mon princes! Your reward is in front of you:
...The best lady in the whole Ahaya. But you know that already!
Should I glorify my own mother?
Zeus inspired me for a moment!
My mother says she'll go with another and I laughed. What a full!
I want to compete with you also.
So if I succeed to string the bow, my mother shouldn't, with all my grief...
...leave this house with another one, but she'll stay with me...
...as winner of the tournament.
telemachus grasped the bow from Antinoüs...
...afraid that he doesn't win, afraid of his father's age and afraid of the danger.
And now he alone tested...
...naively thinking to pierce the arrow.
You take it, you who are so strong!
Odysseus in the mean time, put axes...
...of whom everyone have hollow near the cutting edge.
He aligns the iron in a straight line.
Let's go, from left to right, starting from you Leod.
Leod, to him the deeds of the pretenders...
...were abominate, even if he was with them. Leod loved Penelope...
...and he hoped all the time, that Penelope, if Odysseus...
...doesn't return, shall go with him and born him sons.
Veil!
But now, testing the bow, he realises that his arms are weak...
...soft and tender.
From that moment, he should go for another Achean woman.
He undersood that Penelope isn't his anymore, and he didn't know that...
...Odysseus will soon cut off his head.
Many young this bow will break heart.
It's better to die, when you miss a purpose in life, it's better to die!
Don't say that everyone else will fail because you fail.
Obviously, your mother didn't raise you for archer.
But the other pretender will string it.
Now you.
If you help me now to commit justice, you'll live by my side as my own sons.
Tell the servants to remain in their quarters, and then Eumeus and you...
...lock the entrance into the court room so no one escapes. Quick!
They were full of hope, but they failed to string the bow.
They couldn't. The goddess Athena made him solid.
Eurimachus turn has come. With many sighs in his heart he tries.
...He didn't realize that the bow was spelled.
You lost all hope in the wedding gift Eurimachus.
I lost, but we'll see what you'll do.
Friends! Tomorrow is a holiday in the glory of Apollo, archer! Lets postpone the competition!
He'll give us the needed strength.
Today is Apollo's day... so who can string a bow on that day?
You've all tried, noble lords, now let me try.
God will tomorrow give victory to whome he wants, but in the mean time...
...allow me to test what remains from my previous strength.
What has fallen on your mind? Are you getting mad, or what?
You are mad. You'll never succeed but even you do, be aware...!
...don't expect to leave Ithaca alive. - Why those threats Antinoüs?
What are you afraid of? That the stranger will win and take me away?
- That's impossible Penelope! - So why shouldn't he try?
Why? You ask why! Just think what people will say if...
...the beggar wins this competition:
...the beggar succeeded what the lord has failed!
Eumeus, give the bow to our guest!
The lords may continue tomorrow. Till tomorrow, I still order in this house.
On the flame he warms it, one side than another...
...he touches it, looked if worms have attack the horns.
Truly, he is an expert or maker of bows in his country.
I tell you, young princes, who despise him:
If I just have such luck...
...I would win in competition!
Like when we, the bards. strenghten the string on the lyra...
...so this man, easily strung the giant bow...
...and it gave a sound of a small swallow.
Madness!
You dogs! You who never believed I'll ever return from Troy!
You who want to steal my wife and my kingdom, to kill my son...
...without any fear of wrath from the gods or the mock of men!
Now, you all come to an end, and I'll kill you all as dogs!
Telemachus, don't expect to save anyone of them!
No one of you shall come out alive!
The moment of vengeance and horror had arrived.
Like a scared herd, they try...
...to find an escape from death. But the fence is closed...
...and I'm trembling from fear!
If you are really Odysseus who returned to Ithaca, than what you say...
...is true. But still, hear me. But the causer lies here killed...
...by your hand. Antinoüs personally prepared this wedding!
He wanted to rule Ithaca, after he killed Telemachus.
Antinoüs is now dead, and we shall repay you everything we wasted.
- and what would you repay me Eurimachus? - Twenty cattles each...
...bronze, gold, all you say Odysseus. - Your life Eurimachus...
...your life is all what I want and the lives of all the others!
Get back, servants. You can't get out of here, Odysseus order!
Back servants! You betrayed this home with pretenders!
Shameless bitches, you want to escape the wrath of a king!
You want to save yourself!
Open the doors. Let us out! Open!
I'll exterminate you all!
Get out, get out all!
That's your last arrow Odysseus, stop!
Cry. There's no shelter, nor salvation to anyone...
...because Athena mercilessly sealed their hearts.
Like birds flying all around because they are scared by a cloud...
...and then they fell to the ground and hawks suddenly...
...descended on them, and you see them terrified, expecting death.
Filetius, come quick!
C'mon dogs!
Zeus!
Like a bride weeping over a dying groom ...
...and loosing him with great sighs, till her heart melts down.
Odysseus stopped. The event is owerwhelming.
Telemachus stop. It's enough.
Now, ere is Mentor, the friend of his father.
That's it Odysseus.Y ou don't need strength and courage any more...
...with whom you fought for Helen under the walls of Troy.
and that wasn't Mentor speaking sharply, but Athena...
...who took his appearance.
Now when you take back your home, what are you doing? Cry?
You got to do it Odysseus,you got to do it!
Yes, I must. Eumeus, Filoteus, get out. It was enough.
How many times heaven himself waned you...
...to obey loyalty and dignity of men.
You understood that too late, when payback time came.
Stubbornly proud, blind and deaf, you claim...
...that misfortunes are given by the gods, that they are careless...
...so that you must live in sin.
What we saw, warned us:
...who's holding justice, knows that sometimes pity...
...and her clean eyes can be eclipsed by blood.
Now it was done what the gods decided to fulfill.
Open it! Euriclea,open it! You can open it again!
Odysseus looked around if there is anyone alive...
...but they all lay down washed in blood, like fishes...
...which fisherman draws ashore, away from the blue sea...
...and they wish for the sea, laying aligned on the sand...
...till the sun slowly quenched their lives.
No. Not him. Spare him!
I saw your wrath Odysseus. My song will tell it forever.
You can kill me now, but later you'll be sorry.
Sing about what happened so that people can know what's good...
...and what's evil among men. Go, you are free.
Telemachus, what I told you, that happened. We got to kill...
...these young nobles. We didn't have a choice.
All these misfortunes have brothers and fathers whom...
...we'll face, but not now. We must get some time.
I'm too tired to face the anger of these families.
We got to do something. Telemachus, gather singers...
...let them believe in the city that there is still a party.
Here are unfaithful servants. Let they tell you alone how they fled.
Stop! Euriclea says that only those were faithful...
...to the pretenders...but we'll give example to others!
On your knees. Odysseus, do you want them dead? - Not yet!
Let them first clean the room and carry away the corpses.
Filetius, clean the room with sulphur.
Go to Penelope and tell her what happened. Wait!
Fire. First bring fire.
Penelope, your husband has returned. Odysseus has returned!
Don't you hear me Penelope? I told you that your husband has returned.
Am I changed? I got to prepare. Help me!
Don't be afraid. C'mon girls, your fidelity shall be rewarded.
Hear these sounds? I still see light in the court.
That's wedding song. Maybe the queen chose her husband.
She couldn't wait any longer for Odysseus' return.
Last night I recognized him, but he stopped my mouth.
If I speak, he would probably kill me.
Real man! Know to hide whats on his mind:
...wise and dangerous, he trusts no one.
Like someone awakening from a nightmare...
...in a clear morning, and then he forgets everything.
Go!
You are saved! You are saved, my son!
Mother, why you don't throw him in your arms?
- To that stranger? - Why are you saying like that mother?
I don't know this man. My son, yesterday he was different man...
...a beggar,and one moment I thought I recognized Odysseus.
But he told me: I'm Eton from Crete. I saw...
...in front of me a man I'm waiting for twenty years.
He lied to me, like he doesn't trust me...
...like I've betrayed him. I, who is his wife. And for what?
I want to ask. I'll be quiet... with you.
Odysseus' wife must remain strong.
But how much effort is needed to swallow all those tears...
...of joy after so many years of wait! What do you want from me?
Proof that I didn't change?
You have it. But I want one proof for myself.
And proof is something which belongs only to me and him.
You'll prove me that you didn't change...
...if you remember those few years of happiness we had together...
...when you didn't doubted me...
...that I'm on your side. - Allow them to prepare me the bed.
Please, I'm very tired. My bed.
Prepare Odysseus' bed and bring him here.
That bed cannot be moved.
All knows that its built around an olive tree, but no one, not even you...
...Telemachus, don't know why, and what that means for us.
That olive tree was alvays dear to your mother.
She wished that I build a room around her...
...all the walls around, cut the brances, make the roof and the entrance...
...and that the whole house would be around that tree. We were still young.
You wasn't even born.
Like wishful land, which shipwrecks the sailor sees...
...and whom Poseidon smashed the solid built ship at sea...
...by the winds and huge waves...
...thus wished was in him for his wife.
He couldn let his arms off her.
Odysseus, don't let your job be unfinished.
One more person waited for you all these years. Your father.
Go to him. He retreats on an old estate with some servants...
...and he doesn't comes to the court anymore. Use the night...
...till the families come to ask for the dead.
Wait here for me.
Your father has grown old and without strength waiting for you.
He doesn't come to a city anymore, but dwells among the servants.
Now he lives as a savage, sleeps near the fire at winter...
...and on a heap of leafs in the summer.
Where the night falls, he lays and sighs for you.
C'mon!
How many memories. I was a kid when my father planted these.
How much time has passed!
Already. But if it was needed, I would cut them.
- My lord, there isn't anyone here. - I know where he is.
- Father! - My son! So its true. C'mon,get up. - No!
My son, you finally returned.
It hurts me father to see you like that.
I was a king, and only privileged I wished to retain ...
...is not to hurt my fingers with thorns.
But I also preserved one more privilege. Look!
It's still goog, and its only one I have.
It was usefull to me to clear our fields...
...from the rocks so that I can cultivate it.
I believe you'll use it for more important things.
I've been on the court, and I killed all pretenders. All.
There is power in Olympus, if you are searching for justice!
The servants prepared a bath for Laertes.
The water was brought from a distant, while Telemachus, Filetius and Eumeus...
...guarded the house under arms.
- and so you must live here as a servant. - Yes...
...I live with the servants as them. A pile of straw was my bed...
...and bread and cheese was my food, which I made...
...with my own hands working from morning to dusk...
...but still, I'm not a servant I lived as at the court.
Yes, I understand what you are trying to say. I abandoned everything.
There I left Penelope and your son...
...to fight alone against the violence of our enemies...
...but for a long time, I wasn't king anyway.
I wasn't king since I gave my rule to you.
You were still a kid, but already strong and ready.
You were cunning like a fox, and you liked power. I didn't.
So I abandoned my throne.
Not long after that, you went for Troy.
We waited ten years for you.
People cared for and respected Penelope.
His loyalty guarded Telemachus also. Many years they were silent.
Your mother expected you, and as many others, I also...
...start to believe that I lost you forever. How to be strong to figh then?
My master, everthing is now fine when you see your son again...
...as you wished all these years.
Dolius was wery kind to me:
...he helped me that on this estate I find...
...a small piece of happiness which the gods gave to me.
Father, you preserved a royal garment.
Dress it, since combat is still ahead of us.
Evil comes to Ithaca, no one knows from where.
Cursed Penelope, who deceived them giving false hope!
Otherwise, they wouldn't be in that house, our children!
He came to the most distant part of the island, where the swineherd lives...
...revealed to the servant, and then to the son arriving in Pylos...
...who instantly go to the same place, as he knows.
Then they went to the court. Odysseus dressed in rags.
Like a beggar, holding on a stab. No one recognized him.
The children mock him like any other beggar...
...someone kicked him, but his iron heart endured everything.
Finally, he decided when and how, and with his sons he hid the weapons.
Than Penelope, hypocrat, offered a wedding competition to the boys:
...to string Odysseus bow and shoot an arrow through holes.
The plot was Odysseus work. No one of the kids couldn string the bow...
...only he did it, shooting through holes, then jump...
...throwing arrows on the ground, looked around, and hit Antinoüs...
...in the chest. Than, aiming accurately he shot the others,and they fell...
...one by one. Utter massacre. The death screams echoed.
The ground was smoked from the warm blood.
No one... escapes.
Antinoüs, my son. Antinoüs!
After they paid them respect, the fathers and brothers will avenge them.
Antinoüs!
- They were rich and elite. - They have plenty of stuff...
...but it wasn't enough. Close in the house. Blood will run through the island.
Why do we care, when we have nothing with it!
Lets go father, before the news reaches the other islands.
Relatives of the killed may get help from other places.
It's better that we receive them first, it will cause us less in lives.
Today it will be decided who'll rule Ithaca.
How much longer will this competition last?
My son, listen to me. Don't get me wrong. I'm not afraid...
What pleasure it will be to give an old man the opportunity to fight...
...and what death is more glorious than the heroes, but you...
...who alone committed justice, what use you'll have...
...if you don't fulfill justice?
The gods protected you till now, but now there is a silence around you.
Master, lets not commit injustice...
...and spill the blood first! You defended the honor...
...of your home, now it's on them to revenge by armor...
...their sons and brothers we killed.
Offer them honourable peace.
If they don't accept, we'll fight!
Lets wait for them here, and offer them a peace.
Maybe god will prevent a new massacre, maybe they'll...
...admit justice you have done, and your royal rights.
No! There is never peace without combat first.
If we retreat now, they'll rooted us forever!
You must commit justice, Ithacans. Your sons are killed...
...killed from those wild pig, man without honor!
Too young he became a ruler, and this is on what his rule reduced!
These boys didn't go to war, and he slaughtered them all by his hand!
And from two offsprings of nobility, not one survives on Ithaca!
He returned, but our sons won't ever. Where did he leave his ships?
- Where did he loose his army? - Gather the servants you have!
Give them armor. Send a war cry to all our neighbouring nobles...
...whose children are savagely slaughtered as ours!
Let the army strike on him!
His house and property will burn. Let his people tremble!
Haliters, son of Mastor, speak to them:
...I saw the past and the future.
Thus, wisely thinking, I speak. Hear me Ithacans.
It was your fear who caused these events. You didn't listen to me...
...and not even to Mentor, who tried to stop the madness of your sons.
Serious mistakes do stupidity and pride...
...which grasped the wealth and dishonoured wife of a great hero.
Now, you do this: listen to me!
Lets not go, so no one gets hurt from more evil.
You evildoer, false prophet, so we don't avenge our sons?
Acheans! Your duty is to punish Odysseus. What are you waiting for?
He'll flee to Pylos or Sparta where he has mighty allies.
No, he is still on Ithaca, I saw. He went with his son and two servants...
...before dawn, to an old estate.
If its true what you are saying, lets face him when he is still weak!
Don't loose time any more. This is a sign from the gods!
Athena tells to her father Zeus:
What are you thinking, lord? You wish to continue for more...
...this war or you'll settle peace between the two sides?
My dear, father answers, why are you asking me that?
Didn't you alone arrange Odysseus return?
Lets give them oblivion, says Athena.
Lets give them peace and oblivion, says father.
Stop Laertes! It's futile to have another massacre. We don't need more blood.
I say to you, we don't need more blood!
Lets peace rule. Offer to the hurted side some fee...
...and live in peace. Live in peace forever among eachother.
Live in peace forever among eachother.
One more thing Athena devised.
To Icarius daughter, a sweet dream she sent. Stretched on her back...
...with fatique in her legs, with oil of ambrosia...
...the goddes cleared her face and made her even more beautiful in face...
...whiter than ivory.
Strange. I feel we won't have nights like these any more.
That I feel, but I'm not sad.
How many nights I imagined to speak with you.
I asked the gods, and they answered me many things...
...hard to explain. But your love will explain.
Every time you wished your bed will be ready.
Don't be afraid to tell me what you think...
...or what the god lay on your mind. I am always there.
Soon, I'll again go to sea, Tiresias told me.
He told me that I won't find peace till I found a place...
...where people don't do crime and don't salt their food...
...and don't know about the ships, nor oarsman fatique.
I'll understand that I found what I'm searching for, without need to ask.
Than, I'll stick my oar in ground...
...and offer sacrifices to Poseidon, and then return.
Death will be easy, and it will come from the sea, and find me here...
...in calm oldness, surrounded by blessed people.
Thus Tiresia prophesied. That must fulfill.
Our fate is in the hands of the gods...
...and when it is fulfilled, we can do nothing else...
...but to watch and listen...
...like we are going or coming back...
...born or die.
Thus she said and the goddess heared her. Then she flew on the Olympus...
...on which, they say, weather to the gods is always fair.
The winds never blow strong, nor wet rain...
...but serenity always spread...
and a clear light rules.