THE TWENTY YEARSyears given by the poem where it gives them · ~ marks a telling-space
ODYSSEUS
ITHACA
Drag the years — the war, the wanderings, the waiting.
THREADS BETWEEN THE CAST
Select a figure to light their web — the episodes they touch re-light too.
WHO IS TELLING
AT THE HELMW/↑ ahead · S/↓ astern · A/← port · D/→ starboard · sail to an isle and click it
Reading the sea
Drag to orbit · scroll to dive or rise · click an island to scope in
Click a figure for their story — their threads re-light the map
Esc / ↟ ascends a level · ←→↑↓ / WASD orbit in free view
Q / E step through waypoints · Enter scope in
Helm: sail the ship — W/S ahead & astern, A/D port & starboard
Timeline: scrub the twenty years · Tales: see who is telling what
ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον
THE ODYSSEY
sing in me, Muse, of the man of many turns
Ten years at Troy, ten years on the wine-dark sea. Sail the whole
archipelago of the poem — dive from the gods' height to a cave, a hall,
a dog on a dungheap — and follow the threads that bind every soul in it.
drag to orbit · scroll to dive · click to scope in