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Books 1-4 in Homers Odyssey
Story of Telemachus |
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Books 9-12 in Homers Odyssey
Story of how Odyssey got to Calypso's island |
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| King and Quess of Scheria |
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| princess of island of Scheria |
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| North Greek people that get into a fight with Odysseus and his men because Odysseus needed supplies |
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| People that eath lotus and get high on it. Odysseus's men come along them and start eating the lotus too. They don't want to leave and become forgetful. Odysseus has to get them to stop eating. He eventually does. |
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Cyclop Names means orbed eye Odysseus and his men came along his cave and started eating. Polyphemus comes back and locks them in and starts eating some of the men. Odysseus gives him wine, makes him drunk, and pokes him in the eye. They escape on the bellys of his sheep. Odysseus says his real name and Polyphemus curses him. Posiden gives him a hard time getting home. |
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A witch
When when get to her island, some of the men are turned into pigs. Odysseus gets antidote from Hermes and Circe can't turn him into a pig. They have sex and Odysseus gets her to change the men back. Circe tells him to go to the underworld. |
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| giatns that kill some of the men and only 1 ship gets away |
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| Odysseus's trip to the underworld |
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Desirable women who sing but are very dangerous.
As Odysseus and his men go by them, they put wax in their ears. Odysseus wants to hear the music so his has men tie him to the mast. The singing entices people to them bu the rocks kill them when they come too close. |
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a monster in the sea that takes men off the ship if come of close.
On one side of a narrow straight.
Odysseus decides to be closer to this monster and some men die. |
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A whirlpool that sucks ships into it.
On one side of the narrow straight. |
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The event that gets Odysseus to Calypso's island.
Men told not to touch the cattle of Helius. Odysseus sleeps and the men eat the cows. Helius, in his anger, goes to Zeus and Zeus sends a storm that only Odysseus survies. He then washes up on Calypso's island. |
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People of Scheria.
Help Odysseus get back to Ithaca, his hometown. |
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Odysseus's loyal swineherd from home.
He helps Odysseus. |
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a beggar of Odysseus's house.
Runs errands for the suitors for money.
Odysseus fights him for the spot as the beggar and Ody. wins. |
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Odysseus's old nurse.
When she washes his feet, she recognizes the scar on his foot from a wild boar when he was younger. She knows its Ody. even with his disguise as a beggar. |
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| Odysseus's old dog who stays alive to see him. He recognizes Ody. and comes up to him, gives him love, then goes and dies. |
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Wicked goatherd.
Odysseus kills him in the end by chopping off his hands, feet, ears, nose, and genitals and is left to die. |
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Killing of the suitors.
Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and Philoetius vs. the suitors. |
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| loyal cow herd and ally of Odysseus |
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Takes place on the festivla of Apollo.
Whoever can string Odysseus's bow and fire an arrow through 12 axe handles wins Penelope. It is an impossible task. Ody. wins. Right after this contest, Ody. kills all the suitors. |
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| Penelope test Odysseus to see if it's really him by telling the servants to go get the bed so he can lay down. Ody. says that it in impossible because the bed is part of a tree. Penelope is convinced Ody. is really Ody. |
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