ACT · I
Ithaca: the seashore. Thick mist thro’ which Ulysses can scarcely be discerned asleep under a tree. In the foreground, Athena.
ATHENA.
This day, the last of twenty fateful years,
Fulfils the toil and wanderings of the Greeks,
Who sailed with Agamemnon against Troy
To win back Argive Helen; for to-day
Ulysses, last and most despaired of all,