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100
Meeting father and son
This event is important because it shows how Athena advise Odysseusto return to Ithaca alone. Telemachus has been abround looking for him. When Odysseus passed throught the great hall, Argus died. -
400
The land of the dead
The land of the dead is an important event because it show how Teiresias is a prophet who inhabits in the underworld. Teiresias warns Odysseus that he will never escape "the one who shakes the earth". He learned that his journey to home was going to be difficult. -
440
The test of the great bow
This event is important because it told us how Penelope liked unwilling prince. Penelope keeped Odysseus bow in the storeroom. She had promised marriage for the winner. Then in the sky Zeus singnaled the battle to begin. -
470
The Enchantress Circe
This event is important because it shows how the woman changed the men into pigs and then she had to let the men go because she was violating the law of hosptality. -
500
The Wanderings
The Wandering is an important event because it showed the wife leaving his husban, then Calypso promised Odyssey to built him a raft to leave the city. When they were about to leave, Posiden comes out and destroys the raft. -
500
The beggar and the faithful dogs
This event is important because it it tells about Phaecian retuns home. Athena warns Telemachus that he is neede at home. Athena can't hold his suspens of Odysseus face, so she canged it. He became bigger and Telemachus was a fraid. The relationship between the gods and the men is fear and respect. -
500
Odyssues and Penelope
This event is important because it tells that Odysseus calls forth the maids who betrayed his households. Penelope was told that Odysseus had return home. She tought it was a trick from the gods. She tested him be telling him to find their secrets to their marriage. They both reunited and lived happy. -
Period: 500 to Mar 2, 1418
The Odyssey
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The events of the Odyssey
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The cattle of the sun god
This event is important because it shows how Odysseus and his men went to a sea-cave. He didn't want his men to eat nothing. One of them told them is it better to be killed by the gods then to die of starvation. The sun god punished the men and drowned them. -
The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis
This event is important because it shows how Odysseus was afraid of the sirens because of their enchanted singing. He found a way to stop his men from hearing them, he used ear wax. -
Cyclops
This event is important because it shows how the three men went to the cave and met the Cyclops. He was a threat to the three men and the men druged Cyclops and they escaped by hiding under the belly's of the sheeps. -
Death at the Palace
This event is important because even thought Odysseus was ready to reclaim his rightful kingdome, he must comfront hundreds of hostile suitors. Odysseus first killed one of the best suitors in Ithaca. Odysseus made a bloody battle.