The Odyssey

  • Book 1
    1200 BCE

    Book 1

    Odysseus' crew eat helios's cows so they all die
  • Book 5
    1196 BCE

    Book 5

    Odysseus is captured by Calypso on her island
  • Book 5
    1196 BCE

    Book 5

    Hermes tells calypso to set Odysseus
  • Book 9
    1192 BCE

    Book 9

    Odysseus tells his story to the king Alcinious
  • Book 9
    1192 BCE

    Book 9

    The crew came across the lotus eaters.
  • Book 9
    1192 BCE

    Book 9

    The crew are trapped but then kill the cyclops.
  • Book 10
    1190 BCE

    Book 10

    Odysseus receives the bag of winds and right before he got home a member opened and blew them off course.
  • Book 10
    1190 BCE

    Book 10

    Circe turns men into pigs Odysseus tricks her and they live happily there for a year
  • Book 11
    1189 BCE

    Book 11

    Odysseus went to the land of the dead for advice from a dead prophet.
  • Book 12
    1187 BCE

    Book 12

    Odysseus tied himself to the mast to hear the Sirens song.
  • Book 12
    1187 BCE

    Book 12

    Odysseus sacrificed his men to get past Scylla and Charybdis.
  • Book 16
    1171 BCE

    Book 16

    Odysseus reunites with his son after 20 years
  • Book 16
    1171 BCE

    Book 16

    Odysseus finally makes it home.
  • Book 18
    1170 BCE

    Book 18

    Odysseus disguised as a beggar interacted with all the suitors.
  • Book 21
    1170 BCE

    Book 21

    None of the suitors could string Odysseus' bow.
  • Book 21
    1169 BCE

    Book 21

    Odysseus passes the test with relative ease.
  • Book 22
    1169 BCE

    Book 22

    Odysseus and Telemachus killed all the suitors.
  • Book 23
    1169 BCE

    Book 23

    Penelope tests Odysseus on his bed which he of course passed thus ends the story of Odysseus.
  • Book 22
    1169 BCE

    Book 22

    The suitors try to kill Odysseus and Telemachus.