00:00Everyone's talking about the Odyssey, but does anyone know what it's actually about?
00:03We walked around New York City to ask real New Yorkers, can you tell us the story of
00:07what's going on?
00:08Once upon a time in ancient Greece, there was a man named Odysseus and he built a Trojan
00:13horse and he snuck it into Troy and they battled it out.
00:17Back in his hometown of Ithaca, his wife Penelope has to weave a shroud in order to get married,
00:23but every night she undoes it because she doesn't want to get married and the men never
00:27catch on.
00:28Odysseus beat the sea monster and it goes away.
00:32Circe teaches Odysseus how to talk to the dead and freeze him off the island.
00:36He lands on the island with the goddess Calypso, she gets really obsessed with him and won't
00:40let him go.
00:41Big problem, the ship sinks.
00:43Penelope and Odysseus live happily ever after, but not before killing all the guys that were
00:49squatting in the castle and trying to hit on Penelope.
00:51And they all lived happily ever after.
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