In the same, the rehearsals of HOMER’S ILIAD are in progress so on the early days of November the play can be performed to our young and older friends.

It all starts on Olympus…

the Gods convene, seeing as how Poseidon, Odysseus foe, is away. It is an opportunity to allow the much troubled hero to leave Calypso’s island, where he has been stranded. Hermes is charged with carrying the news. Calypso gets mad, but allows him to go. On a raft, Odysseus sets out on the lusted after return. Against his better luck, however, Poseidon…

The Michael Cacoyannis Foundation invites the foreign visitors of the city who are looking for the substantial contact with the temporary cultural environment.

For the experienced travellers who do not settle for a “superficial” and “standardised” relationship with the capital, but wish to know it deeper by meeting with every face of it.

By participating to the effort of promoting Athens into a popular destination of the tourism of City Break, among the european capitals, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation welcomes the foreign visitors of the city with the tale of tales the “ODYSSEY” by Homer, the most important poet of all times.