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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Odysseues has to deal with Skylla, and she eats six of his men
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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.
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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 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
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Odysseus leaves for home on a ship rowed by the Phaiakians
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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.
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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.
