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The Return of Odysseus

其他書名	A Drama in Three Acts
出版	Indiana University, 1966
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_WWAAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A shabby Odysseus returns to Ithaca, burdened with guilt and cursed with his family's inherited disposition toward violence. His son Telemachus, already experiencing the family curse, urges Odysseus to wreak vengeance on the suitors who have besieged his wife Penelope during his long absence. At a feast Telemachus removes the suitors' weapons while Penelope announces that she will marry whoever can wield Odysseus' bow. During the competition the suitors begin brawling. Odysseus seizes his bow and kills many of them before peace is made by Laertes, his father. After asking Laertes' forgiveness for former sins, Odysseus remembers his old hatred for his father and flees, knowing that Taphian pirates are planning to raid his house. At the seashore Odysseus, crawling on a rocky cliff, is distracted by the voices of the Sirens, who are beckoning him. He yearns for his lost home and heads toward a brightness in the sea that he imagines to be the Ithaca of his youth. Discovering it is only an apparition, he wades back toward the real, desolate Ithaca and its accusing voices. The voices belong to the dead of Ithaca converging on Hermes' boat to be transported into oblivion. Odysseus shouts for them to wait for him and plunges into the sea.