The Odyssey

  • Trojan War

    Trojan War

    He tricked the Trojans with a hollow horse.
  • Odysseus and the Cicones

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Ithaca

    His first trip back home
  • Laestrygones and Circe

    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

    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

    Back to Circe

    He goes back
  • Sirens, Scylla, Charybolis

    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

    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

    Calypso

    The beautiful goddess Calypso, imprisons Odysseus on her island for 7 years
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    Trapped with Calypso

  • Leave Ogygia

    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

    Go back to Penelope

    He finally arrives home to his wife, and has to fight off suitors.