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Odysseus is laertes son. He gets described even more and the book tells us even more.
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The book talks about the lotus eaters. This is when the men eat the lotus and start to forget things.
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The cyclops is poseidon's son. He traps odysseus in the cave and captures him and his men.
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Although odysseus is trapped he finds a way to get the cyclops drunk enough to where he can blind him. He stabs him in the eye and gets to escape.
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The cyclops captures and eats odysseus men.
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Odysseus gets the cyclops drunk enough to where he can stab his eye out.
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Odysseus tells the cyclops who he actually is and that causes him trouble in the future
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The cyclops gets introduced and they tell us what they are like.
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Odysseus' men are saying that he will kill them if they don't stand up for themselves. They want to attack the cyclops.
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Odysseus meets the cyclops and asks him who he is and where he is.
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odysseus tells the cyclops is name is nohbdy so when others ask who blinded him he says nobody.
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the cyclops breaks odysseus ship and prays to the gods that he never sees his home.
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Athena wants to help Odysseus. She wants the gods to intervene and to make sure he goes home.
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The book tells us what happens when odysseus is away. Things are not going the way that some want it to
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Calypso captures odysseus because she wants him as her lover.
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Calypso gets introduced. The book describes her and where shel ives and what it is like.
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The ship that odysseus takes goes a different direction because of the wind that the crew member opened. Leaving them off course and away from ithaca.
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Circe welcomes them and feeds them. She knew that they were trying to be stealthy and confronted them.
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Odysseus talks to the dead because he is in the land of the dead.
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Odysseus goes to the land of the dead. They find the place where Circe points them towards.
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Odysseus goes back to circe and tells her what it was like in the underworld.
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The sirens who sing with beauty will make the men want the voice and forget about going home and things like that. Then they eat them.
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Skylla a six headed monster will eat the ship and circe is warning them to watch out.
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Telemachus tells them what is going on with the suitors and odysseus' wife.
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Athena uncovers odysseus so he can tell telemachus he is back home.
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Odysseus' dog dies, and odysseus shows his emotion. He waited so long to see him and he cried because of him.
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Odysseus reaches home.
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Penelope starts to loose hope in odysseus coming home, so she has a contest to win her in marriage. They must shoot the bow and arrow through the axes and attach the bow string.
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Penelope knows that Odysseus is coming home but does not know when. Mean while odysseus is meeting the suitors but is disguised as a old man.
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Odysseus and telemachus convinces everyone to let him try to string the bow. And they let him.....
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Odysseus is able to pull it off and hit the arrow through all the handles of the axe. This does not appeal to the suitors.
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Odysseus gets pushed to his breaking point when penelope says to move the bed he made.
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Penelope now believes that this is her real husband after putting him to the test. She knew the real odysseus would not let her move their bed because of how hard he worked on it.
