Bring The Odyssey to life with this dramatic readers theater script focused on Odysseus and the Cicones, the first major episode of his Great Wanderings. In this engaging performance-based lesson, students explore how hubris, poor leadership decisions, and disobedience lead to devastating consequences. Fresh from the Trojan War, Odysseus and his crew plunder the land of the Cicones, ignoring warnings to leave, and Zeus’s anger soon follows. This episode introduces key themes that echo through