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Home Is the Hunter — Helen MacInnes
A New Comedy in Two Acts
What really happened on that day in 1177 B.C. when Ulysses finally returned home to Ithaca, after a seventeen-year absence?
The curtain [in this two-act play] rises on a rather irritated Ulysses, returning home penniless and alone after a tough voyage, to find that his palace is housing eleven quarreling young suitors, all scheming to possess his wife--and his land. And beautiful Penelope, feeling neglected, is busy fending off her hotheaded admirers while speculating on why it should take any man seven years to get home from a war.
Included in the cast are a testy Homer, annoyed by the discrepancies in the actual behavior of his loving couple and what he has written about them in his new book; Clia, Penelope's crusty housekeeper; and patient Athena, the Goddess of Reason, who is pretty fed up with irrational mortal behavior.
What really happened on that day in 1177 B.C. when Ulysses finally returned home to Ithaca, after a seventeen-year absence?
The curtain [in this two-act play] rises on a rather irritated Ulysses, returning home penniless and alone after a tough voyage, to find that his palace is housing eleven quarreling young suitors, all scheming to possess his wife--and his land. And beautiful Penelope, feeling neglected, is busy fending off her hotheaded admirers while speculating on why it should take any man seven years to get home from a war.
Included in the cast are a testy Homer, annoyed by the discrepancies in the actual behavior of his loving couple and what he has written about them in his new book; Clia, Penelope's crusty housekeeper; and patient Athena, the Goddess of Reason, who is pretty fed up with irrational mortal behavior.
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