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Introduction 1. Odysseus' failure and the opening of our Odyssey 2. Theseus, Peirithoos, and the poetics of a failed katabasis 3. Herakles and the limits of sanity 4. Whose fault is it? 5. Achilles, Melikertes, and the perils of immersion 6. Who wants Tithonos' Immortality? 7. On heroes and athletes in Homer 8. Winner takes all 9. Neither silver nor bronze 10. Collective aposiōpēsis and the failure of the Ionian revolt