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Fri, Sep 6, 2002
Mislead by a magical map given to them by the one eyed Greeches, Ulysses and his crew get separated and trapped on a mystical island. While one part of the group faces the three-headed love struck, yet terrifying monster Scylla, the others only narrowly escape her lost lover's stony gullet. Risking Poseidon's wrath, they must find a way to get off the Charydes' dangerous island and return to Ithaca.
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2002
Searching out the omniscient seer Tiresias, who they hope will be able to provide them with a map back to Ithaca, Ulysses and his crew find they have to travel to the end of the earth to Hades' kingdom - the land of death. Poseidon uses the chance to make sure that the crew never make it back from their fearful journey to the underworld. Or do they?...
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2002
When Philo is kidnapped by Sirens, Ulysses follows them and realizes too late that he has fallen yet again into another of Poseidon's traps. Only by outwitting Aglaope, the Siren Queen and her disastrously desirable siren song is he able to break the spell and escape, saving the crew and continuing their mission home.
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2003
Desperate for food, Ulysses and his companions land on Circe's island. Circe, a powerful witch, greedily sets up her trap for the visitors. As soon as the men take part in the delicious feast they are immediately turned into pigs. Thanks to Nisa's special powers however, Ulysses is spared the same destiny and together, Ulysses and Nisa are able to join forces with the enslaved men/animals and revolt against Circe's powerful magic.
Poseidon sends the "three Fates" to chase Ulysses and his crew. The Fates are knitting an illusionary dreamworld out of nets, in which the crew gets caught. At first they fall for the illusion and Ulysses believes he has finally returned to Ithaca and his wife Penelope. But soon he realizes that this perfect world is not his true home. A deadly showdown takes place in which the three old hags come very close to sending them to eternity, but in the end Ulysses conquers them and decides not to trust his eyes any longer.
Poseidon sends the crew to an island inhabited by evil giants: the Strygons. They used to be harmless fishermen until Poseidon put a spell on them because they had tried to catch him, taking him for a giant octopus. While part of the crew tries to fix the shattered Navis, the rest confront the Strygons, who eventually fall for a trap - they're afraid of water, but what they hadn't realized is that if they stay inside the water long enough, the spell is broken and they change back into humans.
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2003
Ulysses meets Bellero, one of Poseidon's sons who has taken Nisa hostage. Only by promising him to help find and catch Pegasus, the mystical winged white horse, does Ulysses see a chance in saving his crew. First however, they must cross the land of the Chimera, a strange fiery monster, before they can reach the famous creature. Of course the whole thing is one of Poseidon's intrigues, and this time he doesn't shrink back from using his own son for his evil purposes. However, eventually Bellero realizes something is wrong, takes Ulysses' side and finally learns to stand up against his overpowering father.
Ulysses and his crew encounter the Gorgon sisters Medusa and Stheno. Medusa has a nasty habit of petrifying people with her glance, while her sister Stheno prefers to get them caught in metal objects. During a sculpturing session, Medusa turns Titan and Diomedes to stone while Philo and Dates get caught inside a shield. However, Ulysses tricks the sisters, makes them fight, and eventually Medusa petrifies her own sister Stheno thereby losing her magic powers. Philo and Dates are freed and Ulysses uses the shield to reflect Medusa's face, thus petrifying her as well.
2003
The crew of friends run into a terrible storm and are sucked into a threatening twister. To everyone's surprise, Zephyr suddenly knows where they are. He tells them that they are close to where he comes from and that the storm is the portal to his father's empire. King Aeolus, Zephyr's father as it turns out, resides above the clouds in a floating palace. Believing that Poseidon secured the return of his prodigal son, King Aeolus agrees to Poseidon's despicable plans and tries to ensure that Ulysses never leaves his palace again. Zephyr unveils the plot and must fight to save his beloved Ulysses from a terrible death. But will he make it in time to save him?
Poseidon tricks the crew once more, this time by making Dates severely depressed. The only way to help him out of it is by using the essence of "hope" from Pandora's famous box, which is hidden somewhere in Hephaestus' forge. Ulysses and the crew try to get hold of it by pretending to need Hephaestus' forging talents. However, the god guesses their true intentions and tries to eliminate them. Pandora, an artificial creature made by Hephaestus, helps them to escape. Again, they confront the god and this time Ulysses explains their true motives. With a little dust of hope they return to the Navis and Dates is cured from his depression at once.
When the Navis faces an attack from killer-seaweed (by Poseidon, of course) Ulysses steers the ship into a cave. Inside, they meet a group of centaurs who save them from the vicious weed. The centaurs take Ulysses and his crew to their island. Naturally, Poseidon is furious and threatens to sink the entire island if the centaurs don't kill Ulysses. A duel showdown between Ulysses and Chiron, leader of the centaurs, takes place and Chiron is on the brink of finishing Ulysses off. However, he can't bring himself to doing it. Eventually, humans and centaurs unite and save the island.
Philo gets abducted by Harpies, a strange and unsightly mix between women and birds. Hestoral, their queen, who has been waiting for a king to marry for a long time, confuses Philo with Ulysses and decides to marry him. Meanwhile, Ulysses, Titan, Diomedes and Nisa are having a hard time fighting their way to the castle in order to save Philo. On their way they run into a terrifying monster called the Manticore, which turns out to be terribly in love with Hestoral. Ulysses fixes the two of them up and convinces Hestoral to let Philo go. Hestoral and the Manticore get married and live happily ever after.
Ulysses and his friends are stranded on Calypso's island. Ulysses' handsome looks have caught her eye so Calypso attempts to gain control of his mind. She desperately tries to break Ulysses' love for his wife, Penelope. Ulysses, however, can only hope to put a stop to the source of her destructive witchcraft (the "Flame of Eternity"), by becoming immortal and gaining powers such as Calypso's. Will Nisa be able to put a stop to Calypso's evil doings? And they can't just leave Ulysses behind!
The friendly Lotus Eaters celebrate the arrival of their honored guests by giving Ulysses, Dates and Nisa a gift of their favorite lotus flowers. Poseidon immediately uses the chance to poison them, trapping them in the world of dreams - forever. The other crew members must convince the Lotus Eaters that their friends are not insulting them by falling helplessly asleep but it's to no avail - no one can wake them and Ulysses, Nisa and Dates are in extreme danger. While living in their dreams they are oblivious to the dangers they are facing in reality - in fact they are about to be sacrificed!
The terrifying Amazons capture Ulysses and his crew. Getting in the evil Tyra's way, Nisa is magically chosen to become the new Queen of the Amazons and foil Tyra's evil plans of taking over. Nisa must win against Tyra in her magic form as Poseidon has given the evil Tyra a body made entirely of water. Poseidon is determined to support Tyra in her efforts to destroy Nisa and things certainly look bad for the rest of the crew. Nisa must be saved, but how?
The Navis gets damaged and Ulysses and his crew have to stop at Titan's polar home island Cronus in order to repair it. Here they meet Antipole, Titan's "big" brother and King of Cronus, who is in fact very short and suffers from Napoleon complex. Poseidon convinces Antipole that Titan has returned with the intention to steal his brother's throne and wife. Consequently, Antipole tries to kill Titan and his friends until he finally realizes that Titan has only left the island because he didn't want to stand in Antipole's way - and that he has no intention of stealing the throne. The brothers are reconciled and Ulysses and the crew leave the island, once more searching for the way to Ithaca.
Ulysses and Titan encounter two naughty little dryads, or water fairies, on an island. Poseidon orders them to take Ulysses to beautiful Nausicaa, who suffers from an evil spell - she is so beautiful that every man who lays his eyes on her immediately falls so deeply in love with her that he loses his mind. However, things go wrong and it is Titan who ends up looking at Nausicaa. Nausicaa is devastated but nevertheless tries to stop Ulysses from trying to break the spell, since no man has ever been able to do it. When he insists, she takes him to a well that contains a magic mirror: as soon as it is broken the spell will allow Titan to fall out of love with her. Ulysses dives down, but gets caught inside the mirror. Titan follows him, saves the day and regains his sanity. Nausicaa remains beautiful, but men are able to look at her without any danger.
Through one of Poseidon's evil tricks Ulysses, Titan, Nisa and Philo get stuck in the sunken city of Atlantis. Here, they meet King Peleas, who is the only remaining citizen. He informs them that they can only escape from Atlantis and return to earth if they use the famous pearl of Atlantis. Unfortunately, it is stuck on top of an unclimbable tower. However, Nisa sends her owl to fetch the magic pearl and Peleas uses the pearl's power to get to the other Atlanteans, who live far away on a distant star and sends Ulysses and his friends back to the surface
Ulysses and his crew accidentally find a well that according to Philo fulfills wishes. What an excellent chance to find the way back to Ithaca! However, locked up in a cage next to the well is Lycaon, a man with a wolf's head, who was punished because he had called Zeus a "fat goat". Lycaon explains that they needed a magic goblet to make the well work and persuades them to release him from his cage. On finding out, the Erinyes, guardians of the well, are furious and threaten Ulysses and the crew eternal damnation if they don't bring Lycaon back before the moon rises. Together with Titan and Zephyr, Ulysses starts the search. But Lycaon fools them, intending to use the well to break the spell he is under. Finally, Ulysses captures Lycaon and they fight for the goblet. In the meantime, the moon has risen and Lycaon is trapped. The Erinyes release Ulysses and his crew, but the magic goblet has broken during the fight.
While the crew are out looking for drinking water, Philo finds two bandits harassing a dryad who has taken refuge in an magnificent olive tree. They want to capture him, but fortunately Ulysses and Titan soon jump into the fray and send the two bandits packing. Because of Philo's heroic intervention, Pan, God of the Panpipes, gives him the power to find the way back to Ithaca. Poseidon is furious and wants the bandits to do away with Philo in exchange for the Navis. However, as their incompetence is quite obvious Poseidon sabotages a lyre by putting it under a spell. It now has the power to provoke discord among all those who hear its music! By the time Philo finds the enchanted lyre, one cannot be sure if the companions will ever return home...
When Poseidon gets kidnapped by Cronos the crew realize that in order to get home they have to free him. Reluctantly, they enter the underworld of Tartare where the magic river Oblivion lies. The place is full of traps and things get worse when Cronos discovers the intruders. The solution for the friends might lie in the Stones of Life. Only with Poseidon's help do they stand a chance. But will he abandon his hatred and pride to help the adventurers overcome Cronos?
The companions are sailing near Crete - Dates' original home. It seems that there was a "small matter" of a shipwrecked cargo, belonging to King Tauros of Crete, so Dates is very concerned about the reception he will receive. Poseidon, pleased by this news, warns King Tauros about an upcoming spy invasion by one of Tauros' traditional island enemies! To disguise himself from the King, Dates wears a fake beard. Not surprisingly, the King's advisor sees through his disguise and is about to arrest him. For this part, King Taurus is convinced that Titan's horns are fake and with each sentence they are being misinterpreted as part of nefarious plot. The King wants to learn exactly what the plans for invasion are before eliminating the spies and insists on "bull dancing", a terrifying activity. Will the 'bull dancing' turn out to be positive for the crew at the end?
The crew have landed on Colchide - a well-known paradise for starving sailors where all they have to do is pick a piece of fruit off a tree to satisfy their hunger. The king of Colchide, Aetes, explains that the island's riches are due to the Golden Fleece once stolen from a terrible creature, half snake, half dragon, who lives at the other end of the island. The Golden Fleece is kept under a dome where it radiates power. Dates, who is captivated by this treasure, gets trapped at the top of the tree with the Golden Fleece. The furious snake-dragon attacks Dates, but Ulysses then saves him. Aetes victoriously brandishes the Golden Fleece and replaces it in the dome. Down in the courtyard, the liberated companions cheer. As soon as the Golden Fleece is suspended from the two ropes attached to the columns in the dome, it starts to glow again and the sun rises. Immediately, the trees in the courtyard and the fields around the castle blossom back to normal again.
Pellos, a handsome, yet stupid and lazy prince arrives in Ithaca and claims himself to be the new King. Penelope laughs in his face. She declares that she won't re-marry until her tapestry is finished. In the middle of the night, we see Penelope unweaving her tapestry. On the Navis, Diomedes pulls up a fishing net and suddenly a fish pops out of a large conch shell and starts talking! It's a Horn of Plenty, which can grant one wish per person. Everybody has frittered away his or her wishes, except for Nisa and Ulysses. He requests to be with Telemachus, thereby infuriating Poseidon. Telemachus gets kidnapped by Pellos so he can take over power in Ithaca. When Telemachus discovers where he's heading, he gapes in terror. Alone out on the sea, the boat has carried him to the Pillars of Hercules, the outer limits of the world. Meanwhile, the Navis sails off course, rapidly approaching the infinite. Yet the Horn of Plenty was only granting Ulysses' wish to be back with Telemachus. They're so far away from Ithaca - will they ever be able to reach their home and escape the Poseidon's tentacles?
2003
Poseidon has tricked Penelope by magically finishing her tapestry, which means she would have to marry Pellos. Penelope does not want to get married, but really she has no choice, as if she refuses, she will never see her son again. When the crew arrive just off the shores of Ithaca it looks like the palace is under siege. Ulysses decides to attack Pellos by surprise. Unfortunately, the crew are pursued by the guards. Everybody is horrified as Ulysses gets trapped by Pellos, who is collaborating with Poseidon, and falls over the edge of the cliff. However, Ulysses is not dead and when he spies a load of abandoned planks, he manages to stop the wedding between Penelope and Pellos and save his captured son Telemachus. Athena claims her victory, yet Poseidon still refuses to admit that she has won as for men like Ulysses there's nothing that will keep them in one place!