Odysseus The Rebel

In this re-imagining of the classic Greek story, Odysseus defies the gods time and again with every fibre of his being and an unyielding hunger for personal freedom. This is a hero the gods are determined to break, to prove forever to men that even the greatest among them are less than nothing to the gods.

But Odysseus will not be broken, even when his goal is snatched right out of his grasp, when the men under his command are slaughtered around him, even when he is cast down into hell.

The battle of wills is so fierce that killing him would become an admission of failure. The question becomes how much Odysseus can take before he shatters, like all men must, because the gods have something at stake in this too. Odysseus is not only a new kind of hero but a new kind of man, the kind beyond the reach of any god but his own will.