The book is a passionate rereading of the Odyssey, examinated with the eyes of those who want to understand the present. The authors question the hero of the Homeric poem in order to understand what can endow people acting in the contemporary xxi century with leadership. Why did Ulysses focus so much on returning? Why did he give up the eternal life that Calypso guaranteed him? What made him so inclined to tell stories? What words did he use to convince? Why did he hide behind disguises and deception? Didn't he have anything to blame himself for losing all his companions and arriving alone in Ithaca? From which challenges did he learn the most? Was the defeat of the Proci his merit or that of the goddess Athena who protected him? These questions resonate throughout the volume and echo in the minds of many people. Ultimately, rereading a classic text allows us to multiply the questions and grasp the meaning of some answers: Ulysses, as a leader, succeeded precisely in giving shape to the human potential to question his own self.
