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Jun 3, 1181
The Circe turns the crew into swine
Circe said, " The only way you can get home again, is you must take a deture to the land of death." She excepted them into her house and Odysseus accepted. She gave them food and honeyed wine mixed with a pinch of something special. She waved her wand and turned them into swine. -
Jun 10, 1181
Odysseus visits Tiresias the land of death
Odysseus made the tour to the land of the death to consult the blind profit. Tiresias gave dysseus warning about his journey home and told him what he must do to insure a happy death when his time came. -
Jun 17, 1181
Odysseus' ship passes the Sirens.
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As they were passing Sirens, they passed between the six-headed monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, where they rowed directly between the two. But along the way Scylla dragged the boat towards her by grabbing the oars and ate six men. -
Jul 25, 1181
The crew slaughters Helios' cattle
Heloi's Cattle
Odysseus and his crew arrive at Thrinacia even though they had been warned not too by Circe and the shade of Tiresias. They begged him to rest he allows it but makes them swear on an oath. His crew, fearing starvation, slaughter and eat some of Helios's cattle. -
Aug 30, 1181
Zeus kills everyone but Odysseus
After eating the cattle and being warned they head back out to sea. When Helio goes to Zues to complain, they decide that he needs to send a thunderbolt and kill everyone sparing Odysseus. -
Sep 2, 1181
Odysseus arrives on Calypso's island
Odyssues was spared by Zues' thunderbolt and was brought to Calypso's island, where he will spend the next 7 years of his life. -
Jan 18, 1182
Odysseus blinds the Polyphemus
Odysseus cuts a 6 foot pole off a green olive club, and then he tells his men to sharpen it. Afterwards he hides it in the cave and the cyclops returns home. Then Odysseus gets Cyclops drunk. After hes drunk he lays down and falls asleep. Odysseus and his men take the pole and stab into Polyphemus' eye and is blinded. -
Jan 19, 1182
Aeolus gives Odysseus the bag of winds
Odysseus and his crew came to the island of Aeolus. Zues mad him keeper of hte winds. Aeolus was kind enough to provide a steady breeze to blow them home. He also gave Odysseus a bag of wind to store on board. -
Jan 28, 1182
Odysseus nearly reaches Ithaca
Nine days later they were just about to reach Ithaca, they were so close they could see the land and shore.Then his crew mates betrayed him by opening the bag of winds that blew them all the way back to Aeolus's island. -
Feb 3, 1182
The Laestrygonians
They destroy 11 ships. And a giant ate many of Odysseus' men.Odysseus' ship was not destroyed as it was hidden in a cove near shore. -
Jan 17, 1183
The land of Lotus-eaters
Zues sent a storm that knocked them to their knees.They rode it out as best as they could. -
Jan 1, 1184
The land of Ismarus and the Cicones
This land would have been somewhere to the South, since the gale that drove Odysseus there was northerly. Our first landfall was Ismarus, in the land of the cicones. We sacked the town, killed the men, and took the women captive, -
Period: Jan 1, 1194 to
The Journey of Odysseus
The Journey of Odyesseus's travels through 20 years. -
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Odysseus' Journey
The Trojan War took 10 years He spent 10 years trying to get home, 7 of them on Calypso's island. (The timeline would not let me put the dates in reverse.)
