Odyssey

Book 1: Odysseus was at war, but when the war stopped he tried to go. He couldn't go because the goddess Caylpso help him hostage because she loved him and wanted to be with him. His son Telemachus is depressed because he hasn't come home yet. His mom Penelope is a bachalorette because everyone thinks that O is dead. Suitors have invaided their house in hope to marry her and take over their land and be very wealthy. Athena comes to T's house and tells him that O isn't dead and that he should go out on an adventure and find him. Athena told Telemachus that he should first go to Pylos and then to Sparta and see what he finds out. If he finds his father alive he has to wait 1 more year but if he is dead then Telemachus has to return back to his house and marry his mom off to one of the waiting suitors. A suitor was singing about the war and after while Penelope couldn't take it anymore . Penelope is also the daughter of Learuis.
Book 11: Odysseus goes to the River of Ocean in the land of Coimmerians. There he performs a sacrifice like Circe told him to do so he can attract the souls of the dead. The first dead that appears is Elpenor, a crewman who fell off Circe's roof and broke his neck. Elpenor begs O to come back and give his body a proper burial. O talks to the Theban Prophet Tiresia who foretells O's fate that he will return home, reclaim his wife and palace from all of the suitors and then go make peace with Posidean. He warns O not to touch the flocks of sun when he reaches the land of Thrinacia or he won't return home without suffering hardship or losing all of his men.
Book 14: Nestor leaves the wounded Machaon in his tent and goes to meet the other wounded Achean commandors out by the ships. The men scan the battlefield and realizes the extent of their loses. Agamemnon proposes giving up and sailing home. O wheels on him and declares this notion cowardly and disgraceful. Diomedes urges them all to the line to rally their troops. As they set out, Poseidon encourages Agamemnon and gives strength to the Achaean army. Hera spots Zeus on Mt. Ida, overlooking Troy, and devises a plan to distract him so that she may help the Archaens behind his back. She visits Aphrodite and tricks her into giving her an enchanged breastband into which the powers of Love and Longing are woven, forceful enough to make the sanest man go mad. Then she visits Sleep and by promising him one of her daughters in the marriage, persuades him to lull Zues to sleep. Sleep then follows her to the peak.

T's Cycle
call to adventure: Athena says to go find your father
Helpers: Athena and Eurycleia
Threshold crossing: goes into his fathers house to stand up to the suitors.
tests: dealing with the suitors' insults; challenging the townspeople to support him
helpers: Athena
Triumph: search for his father, Father Quest
Threshold Crossing: crosses back over the seas to get to Ithaca

O's cycle
Call to adventure: Trojan war is over - O's heart calls him back home
Helpers: Other Greek Kings; Athena
Threshold crossing: Gets on ship to sail back to Ithaca but Posideon tries to stop him
Tests: what he all goes through in the flashbacks
Triumph: what he is going after = sacred marriage
Threshold crossing: Posideons last " hit " before O can be at home

NOTES/ POSTS

he suitors are mean and disrespectful. They don't care what other people feel about what they do. They don't have any feelings towards Penelope because all they want from this is the money and that marring her would bring them. Penelope still has strong feelings for Odyessues and has faith that he is still alive. Penelope is making a shawl for her father and when it is finished she has to marry, but every day she weaves and at the night she unweaves it all so it will never be finished. That shows right there that she only has true feelings for her husband and doesn't want anyone else. T is turning out to be a good guy and very wise. Athena told him that he is becoming better than his father already and usually the generations go down. T is also showing more growing up because he set out to go find his father. He finds out that there is acually a lot more that he can do to set out and find his father. So him and Athena set out from the group they were with to go find Odyessues.

Odyessues and Caylpso are stuck on an island together. During the day Odyssues has nothing to do but weep and want his dear Penelope and at night he is unwillingly laying next to Caylpso. Caylpso wants him to herself and wants him to say not because she is forcing him to but because he wants to, but she knows that that will never happen. Odyessues seems kind of like a traiter in some ways because he yearns so much for Penelope but sleeps with Caylpso. He doesn't do it willingly but if he cares so much about her then he should have respect for her. Penelope has all the suitors at her house throwing themselves at her but she doesn't do one thing with any of them, which shows how faithful she is to him. Odyssues does eventually get sent to return home, but unfortunalty he has to make that journey home by himself. When Poseidon sees him free and on his way home, he gets very very mad and creates a huge storm to try and slow him down and try to kill him. Odyssues escapes the storm and safely makes it to a rivermouth. Posiedon is probably the only god who doesn't think Odysseus has gotten enough punishment because he is the only one who still wants revenge on Odysseus.

Odysseus isn't a very good leader. He is a good leader for himself but not for others. When the Cyclops was sleeping, O and his men came up with an idea to escape from the cave. They sharpened a stick and put it in the burning coals, when the Cyclops awoke they gave him very good tasting wine. He kept wanting more and not long after he got drunk off of it and passed out on the ground. O and his men took the stick when it was hot and drilled it into the Cyclop's eye and blinded him. O and his men tied themselves to the bottom of the sheep so the Cyclops couldn't feel them. The Cyclops got mad and ate six of his men. Later he had his men go to check out the island of Circe and 20 of his men got turned into pigs. She turned them back into humans and let them stay there for 1 year.

O goes to the River of Ocean in the land of the Cimmerians. There he sacafices a ram like Circe told him to so he could attract the souls of the dead. The first dead he meets is Elpenor, a crewman who fell off Circes roof. Elpenor begs O to come back to the island and give his body a proper burial. O talks to Tiresias who foretells O's fate and says that he will return home, reclain his wife and palace from the suitors. Then he shall to make piece with Posideon. O is warned to not touch the flocks of sun when he reaches the land of Thrinacia or he will suffer hardship and will lose all of his men. O is becoming better at listening to the gods and what they tell him to do, but is also becoming more violent. He does what he wants to do but goes after what he needs.

Emmaeus is a very loyal man because O shows up at his house, disquised, and asked if he could stay there. E didn't know who it was at first and allows him to say. E then realized that it is O who has come. E only wants best for O and his family. O was always a very kind guy to E. O disqieses himself by lying so that word wouldn't get out about him being there because then the suitors would find out. E can always be trusted and seeing how O was very kind and loyal, E wants to be the same way.