ODYSSEY

The Adventures of Odysseus

The Adventures of Odysseus
1.Troy
2.The Island of the Cicones
3. The Island of Lotus Eaters
4. .The Island of the Cyclopes
5.The Island of Aeolus
6.The Island of the
Laestrygonians
7.Circe's Island
8.The Underworld
9.The Island of the Sirens
10.Scylla and Charybdis
11.Island of the Sun God
12.Ogygia (Calypso's Island):
13.The Island of the Phaecians
14.Ithaca
Characters
Odysseus: 
The Greek king of Ithaca who has been off fighting
the Trojan War for ten years.

Telemachus: 
The son of Odysseus.
Penelope: 
The faithful wife of Odysseus.

Aeolus:
God of Wind
Polyphemus: 
The Cyclops who captures Odysseus and his
men with the intention of eating them.

Circe:
 The witch-goddess with whom Odysseus and
his men stay for one year.

Calypso: 
The nymph goddess who falls in love with
Odysseus and keeps him on her island home
for seven years. Hermes finally persuades
Calypso to free Odysseus.
Odysseus
Odysseus and Penelope
Troy

After the victory at Troy,

Odysseus and his men begin
their journey home from here.
 The Island of the Cicones
After leaving Troy, they stop to raid this island
for supplies. The Cicones attack on horseback,
and Odysseus lost 72 of his men.
 The Island of the Lotus Eaters

Odysseus sends his men out to search for food, and

has to recover them when they eat the Lotus Flower.
The Lotus is a
plant that forces
the eater to lose all
grip on reality. 
Once it is eaten,
the person knows
nothing nor cares
for anything other
than eating the
lotus plant. 
 The Island of the Cyclopes:
Here, Odysseus and his men find a Cyclops' cave, lured by
his cheese and wine.
The cyclops, Polyphemus, traps them inside the cave.
Odysseus and his men blind the cyclops, and then sneak out
under his heard of sheep.
Polyphemu
s
Then Odysseus and his men escape from the cave by hiding under Polyphemus's
sheep.
 The Island of Aeolus

Aeolus,
the god of the winds, gives Odysseus all of the bad
winds, so he can safely sail home. Odysseus' men go
against his orders and open the bag, and all of the
winds escape.
Aeolus
Aeolus, the god of the winds, gives Odysseus all
of the bad winds, so he can safely sail home.
Odysseus' men go against his orders and open the
bag, and all of the winds escape.
 Island of the
Laestrygonians
The Laestrygonians, a race of
cannibals, eat the Greeks.

.The giants ate many of Odysseus'

men and destroyed eleven of his
twelve ships by launching rocks from
high cliffs. Odysseus' ship was not
destroyed as it was hidden in a cove
near shore. Everyone on Odysseus'
ship survived
 His soldiers, with a dozen ships, arrive at "the rocky stronghold of Lamos: 
Telepylus, the city of the Laestrygonians.

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 Circe’s Island
Odysseus lands on Aeaea,
home to Circe.  Odysseus
sends some of his men to
.
scout out the area, but
when they do not return, he
becomes worried.  All of
Odysseus's men do not
return, so Odysseus
himself sets off to see why.
Circe
 On the way, he
is confronted
by Hermes. 
Hermes tells
him that Circe
is up ahead and
. that his only
chance of
survival is to
eat the plant
Moly. 
Odysseus
hesitates; Moly
is poisonous. 
Nevertheless,
he eats it.
 Circe pleads for them to stay on her island, and
Odysseus does this because he was promised
information on how to return home.  Finally,
Circe tells him to go see Tiresias, a prophet
located in the underworld.

Tiresias is A
blind Prophet.
The Underworld
Odysseus consults the prophet
Tiresias to ask how he can get
home, and finds his mother
there, who has committed
.suicide in depression.
Odysseus'
mother is
Anticlea, wife of
Laertes,
daughter of
Autolycus and
Amphithea,
granddaughter of
Hermes.
 The Sirens
After Tiresias, and a brief stop at Aeaea, Odysseus's men go to the
Sirens.  The Sirens sing a song that no man can resist to passing ships. 

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Scylla and Charybdis
Odysseus chooses to sail for Scylla, a six-
headed sea serpent, rather than Charybdis, a
giant whirlpool. He did this because he knew
that if he went to Charybdis, the whole ship
.
would be destroyed. However, if he went
towards Scylla, six men would die. A sacrifice
the brave Odysseus decided to make.
.

Scylla and Charybdis

 Island of the Sun God
After leaving from the
island of Sirens and
escaping Scylla and
Charybdis, the traveled
to the island of they Sun
God. If you remember
.
before, Circe and
Tiresias said not to mess
with the Sun God's
cattle. After they
beached our ship,
Odysseus made them
swear not to touch his
cattle.
 Ogygia (Calypso's Island)

Odysseus finds this island after drifting in the

.
sea. It is a island of women, with a nymph
named Calypso, with whom Odysseus has a
seven-year affair with. After the seven years,
Hermes convinces Calypso to let Odysseus
build a new ship so he could sail home.
Calypso
 The Island of the Phaecians
The Phaecians accept Odysseus, and
he explains his ten-year journey to
them during a feast. They happily give
him a ride home on one of their
magical ships.
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 Ithaca
Odysseus finally arrives home,
and sees his son, Telemachus, for the
first time in 15 years. He and
Telemachus
.
kill all of the suitors,
and Odysseus takes his place as
king, once again, alongside his wife
Penelope.
Telemachus
Odysseus finally made it back to his home.  Athena disguised
him as a beggar so he can remain hidden while he analyzes the
loyalty of his friends and family.  He confronts his son,
Telemachus, and reveals his identity to him. 

Penelope laid down a challenge to the suitors.  Any one of

them who can string Odysseus's bow and shoot it through the
axe-handles
. like Odysseus used to do would be her choice.  
.

Needless to say, none of them could do it, that is, until the beggar got a
chance.  He was ridiculed as he tried, but Odysseus shot the arrow perfectly. 
Athena then changed his appearance to his previous one. 
.

The suitors were awestruck.  It was then that Odysseus and

Telemachus began their attack.  With the help of Athena and Zeus,
they slaughtered all of the suitors. Odysseus, his father, Telemachus,
and other loyal servants meet them in battle.  Laertes kills Antinous's
father with a lance.  Zeus soon commands the fighting to stop. 
Odysseus finally reclaimed title.