Wright Odyssey

Trojan war

Nov 5, 1200

The Trojan War begins with Paris, a Trojan prince, who kidnaps the beautiful Helen of Sparta. The Greek Spartans hold Troy under siege for ten years. To end the stalemate, Odysseus comes up with a plan. Odysseus hides himself and his men inside a giant wooden horse and leave it in front of the gates of Troy. The Trojans accepted the horse as a peace offering and thought the trojans quit. The horse is brought inside the city and the Greek men spring from the horse and attack. analysis

Trojan war

Period: Nov 5, 1200 to Nov 5, 1200

analysis
Odysseus And his man were helping Greeks to get back Helena back from the trojans. They talk about how Odysseus made an idea for the Greeks to attack the trojans. They also talk about how the horse represents peace.

Bag of wind analysis

Nov 12, 1200

I say in bag of winds Odysseus can go home because the bag of wind is going to take him home. But he can't use it because his men opened the bag and thought money was in there son all the wind out of the bag is gone so now they don't have a way home.

Bag of wind

Nov 12, 1200

Odysseus and his men travel the island of Aeolus who gives Odysseus and his men a fair west wind towards Ithaca and a bag of all the unfavorable winds and tells him not to open it, but while asleep Odysseus' men think theirs riches in the bag and open it and get blown all the way back the island and Aeolus refuses to help them again.

Circe

Nov 12, 1200

Odysseus and his men end up on Circe's island and decide to split up so Eurylochus and a handful of men go to explore and they come to a house with wild animals in front of it and their scared but then they hear Circe singing and she invites them in for drinks and then she turns them into pigs and puts them in a pen. Eurylochus goes and tells Odysseus and he goes to save them and they end up spending a year their until Odysseus begs her to let them go.

suitors

Nov 12, 1200

Odysseus shoots a second arrow through the throat of Antinous. The suitors are confused and believe this shooting to be an accident. Odysseus finally reveals himself, and the suitors become terrified. They have no way out, since Philoetius has locked the front door and Eumaeus has locked the doors to the women’s quarters. Eurymachus tries to calm Odysseus down, insisting that Antinous was the only bad apple among them, but Odysseus announces that he will spare none of them.

Lotus Eaters

Nov 13, 1200

The crew lands near the land of the Lotus Eaters. Odysseus sends two men to see what the natives are like. The natives devour a certain kind of magic lotus. The lotus causes anyone who eats it to become infatuated with it and not want to return home. The scouts fall victim to the plant and Odysseus forcibly brings them back to the ship. The crew sets sail again.

Lotus Eaters analysis

Period: Nov 13, 1200 to 1200

circe analysis

Nov 15, 1200

I say Odysseus should had went with his men to meet Circe because it took him a year to convince her that she should turn his men back. But it probably would have taken him longer if he didn't know his men were pigs. Then he had to stay on the Circe island for a year because she didn't wanna turn his men back so it was like another year away from his wife.

Cyclopes

Nov 18, 1200

Odysseus and his men steal food and other items from the Cyclopes cave. I learned that Odysseus escapes death by blinding the Cyclopes. I learned that the plan was to steal the items and leave, but Odysseus was curious on how the Cyclopes looked. Odysseus and his men were trapped in the Cyclopes cave. To distract the Cyclopes Odysseus gives them wine and stabs him in the eye. Odysseus and his men escapes the cave by hiding under the sheep.

Helios’ cattle analysis

Nov 21, 1200

The roles of Odysseus and Eurylochus are reversed. On Circe's island, Eurylochus had been the sensible one and Odysseus had been the risk-taker. On the island of the Sun, Odysseus is sensible and Eurylochus is careless and disobedient. When glory is not in question, Odysseus is more capable of exercising self-restraint.

Helios’ cattle

Nov 21, 1200

Odysseus wanted to avoid the island altogether, but Eurylochus insisted that the crew needed rest. Odysseus made the men swear an oath not to eat any cattle, but they were trapped on the island for a month by an inopportune wind; eventually their stores ran out and the men began to starve. One day Odysseus fell asleep, and Eurylochus convinced the men to eat the Cattle of the Sun:

Scylla and Charybdis

Nov 25, 1200

It was the day that Odysseus and his men we’re going out on a voyage when Circe stopped Odysseus and told him about Scylla and about how some of his men will die. Odysseus and his crew also have to watch out for a giant whirl pool called Charybdis. Now with the advice given to Odysseus by Circe who told him to sail close to edge of the cliffs of Scylla islands.

Sirens

Dec 15, 1200

Odysseus was returning home from the Trojan war but to get home he and his crew had to sail through the sirens island. Now Greek mythology said that if any man who hears the sirens will be drawn to the island and will never be able to leave. Before he sailed through the sirens he talked to Circe who told him to cover his men ears and his ears with ear wax.