Summary Of Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey

Odysseus takes the ship and sails to Ithica where he sees his son. Then, Athena turns Odysseus into a beggar so that he can go to his house and not be in any danger. There he talks to Penelope and tells her that Odysseus will be back, but she

After Odysseus came from the encounter he had with the beautiful witch goddess Circe,, his men are grateful to see him . His men gather around him like a master and a shepherd, his men surrounded him. Odysseus a well respected man who is admired by his men and treated as a mortal god due to his God like qualities . While his crew are stranded in the middle of a cross road without his leadership and guidance, pivoting towards all directions but incapable of moving forward with

It wasn’t a surprise to me that the captain wanted to go to the island where the one-eyed beasts live. Odysseus was always looking for new things to do with the rest of the crew, things that everyone else thought was impossible. He didn’t care how difficult they were, but he was always looking for the praise after the task. Most of the things we would do were often careless and dangerous. However, this trip was beyond dangerous, it was deadly.

A hard storm at sea, breathed in by Ruler of the Salty Waters, caused Odysseus to swirl around in the crashing waves like a feather swirling in the autumn breeze. The wise sailor struggled to stay afloat while clinging to the debris of what used to be his ship, destroyed by Charybdis. Gulping for air, a devil wave swallowed him whole, pulling Odysseus down into the depths of its belly. Everything went black. When Dawn with her fingertips of rose painted the morning sky a blossoming gold, Odysseus sputtered the remaining salt water from his lungs. Sitting up, he sunk further into the mud beneath him, and felt the warm breath of the sun on his cheeks. Absorbing his surroundings, he instantly recognized this as the Island of Mihalia. With his

Odysseus was about to leave the island until Circe stopped him so she could warn him and his crew of the dangers that lurk ahead. She told Odysseus about the the sirens and more but most importantly she noted was to stay away from Helios’s island because if they didn't they would suffer something far worse than death if they offended the cattle of helios in anyway. Odysseus acknowledge what she said and thanked her for everything. As Odysseus arrived at his ship he told the men exactly what circe told him. As they were sailing they were becoming closer and closer to the sirens and immediately he told his men to put on the soften beeswax in their ears so they wouldn't be put in the siren's spell, but Odysseus couldn't resist

As they were leaving the Island Of Cyclops.Oysseus had told his men to close the ports. His men asked “Why do we need to?, the weather looked fine”. Odysseus had replied by the looks of the sky it looks like a storm was soon to appear. They were sailing through the ocean, the water became hard to maneuver. The men yelled we need to stop and Odysseus agreed. As they were resting on the boat for the water to

“Odysseus. You have failed the first part of the maze,” she said. I turned around. She was a child of Night, bright as the midnight moon, with a strange aura of ambiguity. A lack of true presence, a defined identity. In her right was a staff, fashioned out of gilded wood and crowned with a feather made of mother of pearl and glass.

After he had participated in the Trojan war Odysseus started to journey back to Ithaca, the island in which he lived. He accomplished many tasks, saved many people, and survived all of the treacherous creatures he encountered. Odysseus was a brave man and never let his men down while traveling. He had kept a good eye on them until they reached their first challenge, the Lotus-Eaters. He sent two of his men to go check out the island and they came back after eating some of the Lotus plants and were bound and determined that they were not going home. But, Odysseus thought of

Prophesying that he might return home accompanied by none and on dealing with the suitors troubling his kith and kin in Ithaca, he will have to walk inlands which will only end when he finds people who have never heard of the ocean followed by ceding to Poseidon. Further Tiresias also told Odysseus that the reason his mother did not share a gaze with him was that she must be allowed to taste blood.

Circe describes the dangers odysseus must face, telling him of the Sirens, who would try to lure him to his death, so he needed to be tied down and have his crew plug their ears.  He was also warned of Charybdis, a living whirlpool, which threatened to destroy the entire ship, and Scylla, a six-headed monster who ate one sailor for each head on every ship that passed.

Suddenly the wind halted,the air stiffened, and the smell of rotten flesh stung my nostrils. I look back at bemus and go to say something but I forgot about the wax. I turn around a row slowly with the others and we fight the water to escape this wretched place, but suddenly i'm interrupted by a soft, muffled song i'm hearing through the wax. The melody of the sirens seductive song gave me a slight urge to stand up and go toward it, but i resisted as I reluctantly looked around trying to spot the sirens. I see my crew around thrashing and fraying as they row as hard as they can to escape this damned Isle plagued with a sickness not even witchdoctor can stand.I turn to see Odysseus screaming and thrashing violently as Eurylochus and Perimedes run over and put more rope on him.I think to myself, “Odysseus, our leader, even a man such as himself couldn't withstand the song.” Odysseus is a strong and cunning animal, but yet even succumbed to the sirens. I looked around as I rowed with all my might throwing water into the air with every rotation. I could hear Odysseus begging and writhing to be released from his ties.” He’s is actual pain.” I thought to myself. All of a sudden, as if it were a gift from thy gods, the sound halted and it turned into an eerie silence. As we all realized we were safe, we removed the cloth from our heads and the beeswax from our ears. I never noticed Odysseus standing there in

They tell him that Odysseus is still alive but is trapped on an island. Telemachus then starts to head back home but at the palace the suitors are prepared to kill him when he reaches shore. The God Zeus sends a messenger to rescue Odysseus. The messenger convinces Calypso to let Odysseus build a ship and head home. The God Poseidon sees him at sea and creates a storm that wrecks his ship. Athena and Ino helps Odysseus not be swept away by the waters. He then land on the island of Scheria where the king and queen welcomed him and promised to help him on his way home. Before he leaves they ask him to tell his story of his adventure. He spends all night tell them about his adventures all the up to being captured by Calypso. That morning he returns Ithaca and goes to the palace dressed as a beggar. He is abused and insulted by all the suitors but his old nurse Eurycleia. Penelope creates a contest to see who is the first to string Odysseus’s great bow and shoot threw twelve axes. The first one to do that she is to marry him. All the suitors fail. When Odysseus takes the bow, he makes it threw all the axes on the first try. He turns the weapon on the suitors and start to kill them. With the help of Telemachus and his faithful servants, they kill all the suitors but two. Odysseus reveals his true self to the palace. He and his family goes to his father Laertes house to lay low from the suitors family that are out to kill him. While they are there the

There are a couple places where Odysseus gets stuck on a island where other people live. The first one is the Phaeacians land, when he first gets stuck there, a bunch of women were going down to the river to clean their clothes and that happens to be where Odysseus is. When the women were washing their clothes and letting them dry they were playing ball and when Odysseus finally he woke up he asked them for some assistance and they all got startled and ran besides one. The one girl who was there to help him and brush all of the sand off him was the princess of the Phaeacians. Athena made him really handsome for that she would fall in love with him. They finally get up and headed to the palace. To avoid making a big scene Nausicaa the princess

The sea goddess, Leucothea gives voice to Odysseus' singular ability to survive on both land and sea, in the physical and in the psychological realms:

She is the goddess of wisdom and strategy and so likes Odysseus because he is witty, cunning and clever with words. She saves the life of his son, Telemachus by disguising herself. Athena helps Odysseus several times. She appears to Nausicca in a dream as one of her maids to persuade her to go down to the river where Odysseus is so that she will be there to ensure that he is safe and looked after. She gives her courage and makes Odysseus stand tall and look handsome so Nausicca will trust him and help him on his journey, she then covers him in a fog so that when he is walking through town he isn’t questioned by the town’s people. She then disguises herself to show Odysseus where to go to find the king’s home. Athena helps more directly by often giving him favourable winds, for example, she gave him a favourable wind so he could reach the land of Phaecia safely. Athena calms the wind and sea after her uncle, Poseidon destroys Odysseus’s boat. Athena also helps very discreetly as Odysseus finds shelter in an olive bush, stabs out the Cyclops eye with an olive tree branch and makes a boat out of olive trees. When Odysseus arrives home she again clouds him in a mist so he is not recognised and makes Penelope look very beautiful. She also protects him by making the suitor’s spears miss Odysseus. She is the most important person to the success of the Odyssey as even when she is not there in person there is an olive