00:00Odysseus' entire journey home in 60 seconds.
00:03Ten years of war, then ten more years just trying to get home.
00:07Odysseus was the cleverest Greek warrior at Troy.
00:09It was his idea for the wooden horse that ended the war.
00:12But the gods had other plans for him.
00:14His voyage home became a nightmare.
00:16He blinded the Cyclops Polyphemus,
00:18which turned the sea god Poseidon into his personal enemy.
00:21His crew ate the sacred cattle of the sun god and were destroyed for it.
00:25Circe turned his men into pigs.
00:27The sirens nearly lured his ship to its death.
00:30Every time land was in sight, something dragged him back out to sea.
00:34After ten years of monsters, gods, and heartbreak, he finally reached Ithaca.
00:38But his palace was full of men trying to marry his wife, Penelope, and steal his kingdom.
00:44So Odysseus disguised himself as a beggar, walked into his own home, and waited.
00:49Then he picked up his bow and reminded everyone exactly who he was.
00:52Some men just refused to stay lost.
00:59Ithaca
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