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Aug 13, 1499
Odysseus and the Trojan War
Odysseus battled in the Trojan war, and after it was over, all of the soldiers went home except for odysseus and some of his men. -
May 10, 1500
Odyesseus and Polyphemos
Odysseus and his men meet the Kyklopes, and he punctures the Kyklopse's eye and they escape. The Kyklopse tells Poseidon that he wants him to make Odysseus journey bad. -
Period: May 10, 1500 to
Odysseus' Journey
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May 25, 1510
Odyesseus and Aeolus
Odysseus and his men land on Aiolia Island and tell the story of troy for a month. Aiolos gives Odysseus a bag of the winds -
Nov 7, 1520
Odysseus, Kirke and the Underworld
Odysseus is on the island of Kirke, she turns some of his men into swine. Odysseus convinces Kirke to turn back the men and stay with her for a year. Odysseus asks to go home, but she says that he first must go to land of the dead. -
Nov 23, 1530
Odysseus and the Underworld
Odysseus learns of how Elpenor died. Teiresias warns odys not to kill the cattle and also learns that he will return home alone. Odysseus meets his mother and learns of home. Agamemnon warns odys to be careful. They all go back to Kirke's island for Elpenor's, Odysseus' mother, body. -
Feb 4, 1540
Odysseues and the Seirens
Odysseus encounters the seirens. Odysseus escaped from them by filling his crew's ears with wax while he tied himself to the ship's mast. -
Mar 2, 1550
Odysseus and Skylla
Odysseues has to deal with Skylla, and she eats six of his men -
Apr 10, 1560
Odysseus and Helio's cattle
As the men sail onwards, they eventually come to Helios' island. At first, they agree easily to Odysseus' demand that they not eat the sacred cattle. Little by little, the resources that the men brought with them dwindle away into nothing. Finally, when Odysseus is asleep, they slaughter some of the catlle and eat them. Everyone of them died, except for Odysseus. -
Jun 11, 1570
Odysseus and Calypso
All of Odysseus men die and he drifts till he eventually reaches Kalypso's island. Athena has Hermes sent to Kalypso.
Hermes instructs Kalypso to allow odys to leave, Kalypso agrees. Odysseus makes a raft, and floats off -
Odysseus and the Phaecians
Odysseus finally reaches the land of the Phaiakians. While playing ball, Nausikaa runs into Odysseus.Nausikaa instructs odys as to how to act while approaching town and meeting her parents. Odysseus reaches Athena's grove and waits for Nausikaa to reach home. Athena pours fog around odys until he reaches and embraces the queen's knees. Odysseus asks the queen for help in returning home. King Alkinoos asks everyone to help odys get home -
Odysseus makes it home
Odysseus leaves for home on a ship rowed by the Phaiakians -
Odysseus' final test
Penelope would marry anyone of the suitors who could string Odysseus’ bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe-handles joined together. Odysseus picked up the bow, stringing it with ease and in one fluid motion letting fly an arrow that pierced all the twelve axe-handles. After that, there was chaos. Revealing his true identity, Odysseus began massacring the suitors and, aided by Telemachus and the swineherd Eumaeus, they had soon cleared the court of all 108 of them. -
Odysseus' final test (contin.)
In front of Odysseus, Penelope ordered the palace servants to remove the bed from her bed-chamber to the hall outside. On hearing this, Odysseus bristled with anger and opposed the idea, saying that this bed had been fashioned out of a living oak by his own hand. Joyful, Penelope rushed to Odysseus and hugged him, with big tears in her eyes, for she was reassured that this man was her beloved husband returned to her. Only Odysseus knew about the bed.
