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King Alcinous
King Alcinous brings plenty of gifts for Odysseus, and everyone feasts. -
The Sleep
When Odysseus walks onto the ship the next morning, he falls into a deep sleep that briefly erases his twenty years away. -
When the Ship Lands
The ship lands in Ithaca, and the crew puts Odysseus and his gifts in a secluded spot to make sure thieves won't be able to get to him. -
Poseidon is Mad
Poseidon is irritated with the Phaeacians for helping Odysseus and giving him so much treasure. Zeus sees this as unimportant, but encourages Poseidon to do whatever soothes his anger. -
Poseidon's Revenge
Poseidon turns the ship Phaeacian ship to stone so that it sinks, and the Phaeacians are scared, so they pray and sacrifice to him to try to satisfy him. -
Odysseus Awakes
Odysseus wakes up, but Athena has surrounded him with a mist so that he can't recognize where he is. Because of this, he thinks the Phaeacians tricked him and brought him to a foreign land. Athena appears in disguise telling him that he is in Ithaca, and Odysseus tells her that he is a fugitive from Crete wanted for killing a man. Athena changes into a woman and agrees to help Odysseus conceal his identity and treasure, but Athena warns him he must suffer more under his own roof. -
Odysseus and Athena
Odysseus notices how Athena has been so nice to him, but seems to abandon him during his travels. She explains that she had not helped him because she was scared of angering Poseidon. Odysseus realizes he would have died, had it not been for Athena. She changes him into an old beggar and tells him to visit Eumaeus. -
Odysseus and Eumaeus
Eumaeus invites Odysseus in to eat, drink, and talk. Odysseus thanks him, and Eumaeus says that Zeus insists that everyone is nice to beggars and strangers. Eumaeus serves him two pigs, barley, and wine. -
The Encounter of the Hogimus Maximus
Right when Eumaeus and Odysseus were about to start talking again, the two hogs float up and merge together and grow into a beast that is twenty feet tall and resembles a hog, but is black and has five rows of teeth on the top and bottom, huge and majestic wings, and five rows of teeth on the bottom. The beast flies towards Emaeus, but Odysseus dives towards him with a machete, swiftly slicing the monster's head off. Eumaeus stands there with his mouth wide open. -
Odysseus Tells "His Story"
Odysseus explains that he fought in the Trojan War for ten years. When he came back home, his men killed in the Egyptian farms, so they either killed or enslaved the whole crew, but he escaped by begging the king for mercy. He then stayed in Egypt for seven years. He then left with a con man who convinced him to go to Libya, but Zeus struck their ship and only he survived. He floated on the mast of the ship for nine days to reach Thesprotia. Phidon sent him to Dulichion where the crew... -
Odysseus Tells "His Story"
..dressed him in rags and tied him up on an Ithaca beach. He then escaped and stumbled across Eumaeus' home. This is the end of Odysseus' made up story. -
Oddyseus Testing the Waters
Odysseus-the-beggar then describes a freezing night of the Trojan War when he complained to Odysseus how cold he was, so then Odysseus sent one of his men on a fake mission so that he, the beggar could take his cloak. Eumaeus then praises the story and lends him a cloak of his own.
