THE ULYSSES SERIAL

For this third part of “Greek mythology in one hundred episodes”, Murielle Szac invites us to follow the formidable destiny of Ulysses. Ulysses, the reluctant traveler, who knows when he leaves his beloved island of Ithaca, his sweet Penelope and his little Telemachus that he will not see them again for twenty years, not before having explored unknown lands and seas. Ulysses of a thousand tricks, who must find a way to end the interminable Trojan War, who must fight the Cyclops Polyphemus, resist the plant of oblivion, the song of the sirens and the charms of the sorceress Circe. Ulysses the shipwrecked man, who will fall several times from Charybdis to Scylla. Ulysses the exile, who, throughout his life, will have only one desire: to return home and lead a peaceful existence with his family. Like the serials of Hermes and Theseus, that of Ulysses reconnects with the orality of the first stories. It can be read aloud, and shared with family or class. Made accessible to all, it offers answers, often fabulous, to the questions that every human being asks. It aims to be a promise of meetings, listening and dialogue between young and old.