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Odysseus wandered the sea for many years and he is trying to find his way home.
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Penelope is the wife of Odysseus. Since Odysseus has been gone for years, suitors are pestering Penelope and are trying to make her marry one of them so they can inherit Odysseus's wealth.
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Odysseus has been held captive by the goddess Calypso for around 7 years.
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Hermes was sent by Zeus to tell Calypso that she needed to let Odysseus go.
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Calypso helps Odysseus build a raft and he gets thrown around by storms and ends up on the island Scheria.
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Odysseus is telling the King of Scheria his adventures and challenges that he has faced over the years.
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The Lotus Eaters made some of Odysseus's crew tired and lazy so he had to get them back to work so they could go home.
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Odysseus goes to ask for help from a Cyclops, when he gets there he and his warriors hide and when the Cyclops finds them he starts to question them.
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The Cyclops established the fact that he was not afraid of the gods and that he will only let Odysseus go if he feels like it.
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The Cyclops was eating Odysseus's men and those that weren't eaten were horrified by what they saw.
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Odysseus decided him and his group will get the Cyclops drunk with some wine.
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Odysseus and his crew took a spear and blinded the Cyclops by stabbing his eye when he was asleep.
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Odysseus, previously, told the Cyclops that his name was Nohbdy (nobody) so when the other Cyclops asked what was wrong he said that Nohbdy was hurting him.
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Odysseus and his crew had to be tied to the Cyclops's sheep in order to escape because the Cyclops let the sheep roam free during the day. The Cyclops pets each sheep before they are let out.
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The cyclops threw a rock at Odysseus to sink his ship but he failed.
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Odysseus tells the Cyclops his real name, and the cyclops prays to his father Poseiden and asks that Odysseus never returns home.
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Eurylochus led his group inside Circe's home, she got them drunk (or used some magic) and then turned them to pigs/hogs.
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Eurylochus came running to Odysseus and warned him of Circe and her powers, Odysseus had some help from Hermes went back to rescue his men. She tries to trick him but it doesn't work, his men are saved but they stay on the island for a year.
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Odysseus has to talk to the prophet Tiresias before returning home so he could help him. He traveled until he was able to reach the land of the dead.
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Odysseus made a sacrafice for Tiresias, he also saw Elpenor (one of his men who dies at Circe's house) there.
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Odysseus came back to tell Circe what his fate was.
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We hear about the sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis that appear when Odysseus and his crew are trying to get home again.
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Circe warned Odysseus about the sirens and how the men need to cover their ears so they won't be lured by the sirens.
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Odysseus is staying with the swineherd, and he is diguised. Telamachus also returned and decided to go visit the swineherd.
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Athena undisguised Odysseus because she wanted Odysseus to tell Telemachus that he was his father.
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After Odysseus and Telemachus made a plan to disguise Odysseus and get rid of the suitors. Odysseus told Telemachus to lock his weapons away.
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Argos, Odysseus's old dog, recognized Odysseus and the dog wanted to get his attention. Odysseus remembered him and was sad that he was being treated this way. Eumaeus (still not knowing the man was Odysseus) told him that the dog has been depressed because Odysseus wasn't home.
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Penelope, still upset about Odysseus, propses an archery contest with the prize being her hand in marriage.
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Odysseus tells the swineherd and cowherd that he is actually Odysseus. He asks them to help him with his plan, he asks them to lock the gates of the castle. He also asks them to lock up the women in a room for safety, and to make sure the women stay in the room even if they hear people dying.
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Penelope leaves the room so the men can decide who will go first in the bow contest.
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Odysseus wants to go first and he starts stringing the bow while all the suitors are yelling out comments
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Odysseus strings the bow with ease and wins the contest.
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Athena made her interference known and Odysseus killed all of the suitors.
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Odysseus takes off his disguise and he takes his shot, he makes it, hits Antinous and kills him.
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Odysseus denies the offer that one of the suitors proposes. Odysseus wants them all to die.
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The suitors tried to attack and kill Odysseus but their attempts failed.
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Odysseus had himslef cleaned up before he confronted his wife. Odysseus asks her why she is not happy and overjoyed that Odysseus is home, she respnds that she is not 100% positive that he is actually Odysseus.
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Penelope asked her maid to put Odysseus's bed outside the bedchamber. Odysseus was outraged because he made the bed out of a olive tree tunk that was still in the ground, it was impossible to move (he thought that somehow someone moved it).
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After Odysseus got angry about the bed Penelope embraced him because he passed the test. The test was about the bed because only Penelope, Odysseus, and one servant knew about the secret of the bed.
