Sunday, August 25, 2013

Book 3: Οn The Island Of The Cyclops


Blown by adverse winds the small fleet of Odysseus' ships finally arrive at a strange island spread with crumbling megalithic structures of an undetermined age. As it turns out this is Cyclopea, the island of the Cyclops, a half human, half divine race that the «gods» employ as guardians to their weapons of mass destruction depot.

As Odysseus and his companions soon find out these Cyclops are of enormous stature and brutish disposition. Trapped inside the huge artificial cave of Polyphemus and his insatiable wife Aetherope, the Crafty One has to work out a plan to escape a fate worse than death, but in the process he accidentally creates an incredible havoc and sends the «gods» running.

Once again this story, as told by Odysseus himself, shares very little in common with the same episode as taught in our schools and universities --the Homeric version that is.



To download the comic book and save it on the hard disk there are two options. A pdf format file, which can be opened with Adobe Reader or any other reader capable of opening pdf files and an epub format for easy viewing with the ipad --or with any reader capable of reading epub files.


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