Les Grands Mythes - Season 3 (2021)

Ithaca, Penelope undergoes the presence of the Suitors who covet her hand and the throne of Ulysses. On the sea, scalded by the terrible ordeals they have gone through, disembark on a new island, that of the magician Circe.

A year has passed. It is time for Ulysses and his men to leave the island of Circe and return to Ithaca. For that, they must go to meet the diviner Tiresias in the Underworld. He alone is able to tell them the rest of their journey.

Ulysses descends into the depths of the Underworld and meets the souls of the Greek heroes who fought with him. Back on his boat, he is confronted with the song of the Sirens. Then the fleet finds itself facing Charybdis and Scylla.

Scylla, horrible creature, destroys three ships. Despite Ulysses's warning, the sailors devour the god's cows. The penalty is terrible. Odysseus finds himself alone drifting to the island of the nymph Calypso, who falls in love with him.

For seven years, Ulysses has lived with Calypso. Then he decides to leave. Poseidon destroys Ulysses's ship, which runs on an unknown island. There he meets the Pheacians, who promise to take him to Ithaca.

The Suitors learned that the queen had duped them and locked him in the gynoeceum. Odysseus meets Athena who tells him that he is in Ithaca. She transforms him into a beggar so that he goes unnoticed, then he finds his son Telemachus.

Penelope, forced to choose a husband, offers the Suitors a test to decide between them: they must shoot an arrow and pass it through twelve axes. All try without success, before the beggar tries his luck and reveals his true identity.