The Odyssey
Warrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Following victory, he now must endure a lengthy, decade-long return journey, and with all his wits, overcome deadly monsters, powerful forces of nature, seductive enchantresses, and even journey into the bowels of the Underworld.
- Created by
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- First aired
- May 18, 1997
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- NBC
- Episodes
- 2
- Country
- US, GB
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May 18, 1997This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient epic--replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish locations, state-of-the-art special effects, and many bronzed muscles gleaming with sweat--chronicles the voyage home of a Trojan hero, Odysseus King of Ithaca, and includes many more scenes of his faithful, beautiful wife Penelope dodging leering suitors at home than Homer ever composed!
Cast
Armand Assante
Odysseus
Greta Scacchi
Penelope
Geraldine Chaplin
Eurycleia
Isabella Rossellini
Athena
Eric Roberts
Eurymachus
Bernadette Peters
Circe
Jeroen Krabbé
Alcinous
Irene Papas
Anticlea
Christopher Lee
Tiresias
Vanessa Williams
Calypso
Michael J. Pollard
Aeolus
Ron Cook
Eurybates
Nicholas Clay
Menelaus
Adoni Anastassopoulos
Perimedes
William Houston
Anticlus
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