Using a replica of a Bronze Age galley, Tim Severin and his crew set off on the voyage of Odysseus to discover if Homer's Odyssey could possibly be true... Did Ulysses make a real voyage home from the siege of Troy to Ithaca? Did Scylla and Charybdis and the Cyclops really exist in any form? and what about the Sirens and Circe the witch? In this gripping modern detective story the clues lead to a most startling solution.