In other times, Greeks, gods, heroes, and humans lived together. But, in the Odyssey, this happy situation has come to an end: Ulysses no longer belongs to the heroic time of the Iliad, but to ours. Although his life is not conceivable without divine intervention, the gods are far away now. Ulysses is just a man. While the other warriors dream of repeating the feats and tragic fate of Achilles, Ulysses adapts, folds, accepts the limits and learns to overcome them. Back in Ithaca he teaches Telemachus his art of living: endurance and words of honey, which transform our misery, the shadow of our dream, into a harmonious construction.
Pietro Citati moves, in the multiplicity of refractions and reflections, with the precise and sharp gaze of his character, understanding with affable wisdom the infinite mosaic of interpretations. In the end, a new hero and a new myth, so close to us, transport us with the wave of that sea in which Ulysses has traveled, suffered and loved so much.