Abstract
After the first epic movies which refered to Atrides'tragedy, Travel to Kythera, shot in 1984, marks a turning point in Angelopoulos's work : the beginning of an Odyssean cycle. Travel to Kythera meets Odyssey because, in both epics and movie, individual and political history are blent, the main problem being the interruption of transmission between generations, which means for Angelopoulos between the ancient communist partisans during the Greek civil war and their sons. However, the narrative structure of the epics is completely removed by Angelopoulos : Ulysses won't come back and, if he does, he will be banished again. The narrative doesn't lead to a conclusion and the son is the only one who has to remember and then to repress and forget his father, whose ghost haunts present time as a dream. Instead of trying to rebuild the continuity of time as the homerical poem does, the movie is based on the idea of a « ghostlike » history. It looks like contemporary history needs to be understood the anachronical rising of myths through present reality.
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