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Trojan War
He tricked the Trojans with a hollow horse. -
Odysseus and the Cicones
After the Trojan was Odysseus and his men raided the town of Cicones. 72 of his men died and the rest went out to sea. -
Lotus Eaters
Whenever Odysseus's men ate the Lotus Flowers it made them forget about there home and what they were doing. -
Cyclops or Polythemus
Odysseus gets trapped in a cave and has to use his witty skills to get them out of the situation by stabbing the cyclops in the eye and tying him and his men under the cyclops's sheep. -
Aeolus
King aeolus gives Odysseus a bag of winds that will blow him back to Ithaca, and a bag of bad wind that will blow him back to King Aeolus. While he is sleeping his crew opens the bad bag of winds thinking it was gold, sending them back to the island. -
Ithaca
His first trip back home -
Laestrygones and Circe
He encounters some man eating giants, and lands on Circe's island and turns his crew into pigs. -
Land of the Dead
Here Odyssues had to sacrifice a ram and a black ewe. The blood of these animals attracted the dead and the blind prophet Tiresias. -
Back to Circe
He goes back -
Sirens, Scylla, Charybolis
He plugs his men's ears' with beeswax while he straps himself to a pole to hear the sirens song and then he encounters Scylla the 6 headed monster that kills some of his men and then Charybolis. -
Helios, Helios's Cattle, and Zeus
He was warned not to eat Helios's cattle. But his men go ahead and eat them. Helios is upset and Zeus strikes his boat with a lightning bolt. -
Calypso
The beautiful goddess Calypso, imprisons Odysseus on her island for 7 years -
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Trapped with Calypso
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Leave Ogygia
After seven years on her island Hermes convinces Calypso to let Odysseus go. So he leaves on a raft headed home. -
Go back to Penelope
He finally arrives home to his wife, and has to fight off suitors.
