the odyssey
The graphic novel, The Odyssey, was one of the most fun books I read in this class.The Odyssey begins ten years after the end of the ten-year Trojan War, where Odysseus has still not returned home from the war. Odysseus' son Telemachus is about 20 years old and is sharing his absent father's house on the island of Ithaca with his mother Penelope and a crowd of 108 greedy young men, "the Suitors", whose aim is to persuade Penelope to marry one of them, all the while enjoying the hospitality of Odysseus' household and eating up his wealth.