Ulysses, sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War had incurred the wrath of Neptune, god of the sea, because his sailors had eaten some of Neptune's sacred cattle. The angry god caused his shipwreck on Calypso's island where he had been kept prisoner by the goddess in her attempt to seduce him into marriage. Jove fi nally ordered his release, but angry Neptune blocked his progress through many examples of his hate for Ulysses. After ten years of harrassment, Ulysses reached his home only to fi nd that the Suitors had established control over his palace and were engaged in consuming his wealth while trying to seduce Penelope, Ulysses wife, into marriage with one of them. With the slaughter of the Suitors by Ulysses and reunion with his wife, son and father the tale ends.