The Architect of Ithaca
The Man Odysseus Erased
Everyone knows Odysseus's story. This is the story of the man he destroyed to keep it.
Palamedes of Euboea — inventor of the alphabet the army counts with, the lighthouses it sails by, and the dice that keep it sane — makes one mistake: he drags Odysseus, feigning madness behind a plough, into the war he tried to escape.
Nine years later comes a forged letter, a rigged trial, a pit of stones — and a poem that never once says his name.
The Architect of Ithaca is a literary retelling of the man the Odyssey could not afford to remember: precise, unsentimental, and quietly furious on his behalf. Includes the afterword "The Psychology of Palamedes." The sixth book in the Myths of the Ancient World series. Reads as a complete standalone. For readers of Madeline Miller, Claire North's Ithaca, and Stephen Fry.
También disponible en español: El arquitecto de Ítaca — El hombre que Odiseo borró
"He built the trick that won the war. He was owed a name for it. He got a pit of stones instead."
