With the Trojan War over, Odysseus wants only to sail home. But between him and the island of Ithaca wait flowers that make men forget, a one-eyed giant, and the fury of a god of the sea.

A bag that holds all the winds, a sorceress who turns men into pigs, and a song no sailor can resist. The hardest perils of Odysseus's long voyage home.

After twenty years away, Odysseus comes home to Ithaca disguised as a beggar and finds his palace overrun by suitors. Only a test with an old bow, and a secret known to just two hearts, can set everything right again.

After ten years of siege, the Greeks vanish, leaving only an enormous wooden horse on the beach. The story of the most famous trick in mythology and the fall of proud Troy.