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
Odysseus sends his men out to scout the
island Eaters
before deciding what to do next. After a
while, when they didnt come back, he went after
them and found out that they had been drugged.
They had been eating Lotus fruits.
 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
Odysseus dragged them back to the ship against their will and tied them
than
to the rowing benches, to prevent them from eating
escaping back tothe
the island.
lotus plant.
Here, Odysseus and his men find a Cyclops' cave, the
home of cannibalistic one-eyed Cyclopes. They
encountered Polyphemus, who traps them inside the
cave. Polyphemus then ate six of them.
While sealed inside a cave, Odysseus and his men
turned the olive tree branch into a giant spear. When
Polyphemus came back, Odysseus offered him strong
wine to make him fall asleep. Once fallen asleep
Odysseus and his men blind the cyclops, and then
sneak out under his heard of sheep.
Polyphem
us
Then Odysseus and his men escape from the cave by hiding under
Polyphemus's sheep.
Angry Polyphemus tried to sink the ship with
boulders.
 The Island of Aeolus

Aeolus,
the god of the winds, gives Odysseus a bag with
all of the bad winds, so he can safely sail home.
Odysseus' men go against his orders and open
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
Laestrygonian
s
The Laestrygonians,
a race of cannibals,
. The giants
eat the Greeks. 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
 His soldiers, with a dozen ships, arrive at "the rocky
stronghold of Lamos: Telepylus, the city of the Laestrygonians.

.
 Circes 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
Circe
 On the way,
he is
confronted
by
Hermes. He
. rmes tells
him that
Circe is up
ahead and
that his only
chance of
survival is to
eat the
plant
 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 Odysseus'
depression.
.
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.

.
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
 Island of the Sun After leaving
God 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.
 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.
 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.