Explains all of the greek heroes, except for odysseus who has not yet returned. why because he is being held prisoner by calypso. his son and wife are home and there house is being filled with husbands that wann marry his mother.
theme gods and goddesses
book two
athena in the form of odysseus's old friend talks to telamachos that he should try to find out if odysseus is still alive. she informs him of traveling and asking around Pylos and Sparta to for info on him. she leaves with telling him once he leaves that he will become a man.
theme gods and goddesses
book three
Telemachus talks to nester about odysseus and whats happening at his house. Athenas beside him in the form of his mentor.
book four
Telemachus still talks to nester about his father, nester tells him that odysseuas was alive a few years ago but was being held hostage on an island by calypso who wants him to marry her
Books characters
Odysseus, Circe,Telemachus,Siren,Calypso,Athena,Zeus,Polyphemus,Poseidon,Scylla,Tiresias,Arete,Laertes
Charybdis,Menelaus,Antonius, Aegisthus
The theme in these books is= coming of age, as it focuses on just telemauchus growth from kid to man
Allusions - the Trojan horse, Helen, Agamemnon, and Achilles External conflict
book five
Hermese goes to meet Calypso. He distracts her while Odysseus manages to creat a raft. he ends up leaving having some help from the gods as the coastal drift carries him away fast from the island. for the journey calypso grants him food and wine.
book six
odysseus ends up passing out after his long journey. Athena leaves quickly leaves and discusses her self as a young girl and friend to the princess naucasia. she informs her to go down the river and wash her clothes the next day. when the princess heads there she finds odysseus and he pleads to her for help. she willingly with out knowing who he is helps him and leaves him alone to bathe. athena lastly makes her fall in love with odysseus so this wouldn't cause a huge scene in the town and helps him get to the palace the shortest way possible to ask the queen for help.
book seven
As odysseus walks into town a young girl who is athena in disguise helps him get to the palace quickly and covers him in a kind of cloaking mist. this keeps the phanacions fom harassing Odysseus. while on there way athena tells odysseus to go to the queen for help since she will know how to get him home. as they reach the palace odysseus finds the queen and throws himself at her feet pleading for help. the king who didn't notice him at all though he was a god and asked who he was. wanting to protect his identity odysseus assured him he was mortal.
book eight
odysseus celebrates with other royal and strong men in competing of Olympic games. Noting that each man had won with his own specialty. After the games a feast was given an odyseus was told that the men were also the best sailers and would be glad to take him back home.
theme= hospitality, calypso and other gods help him by granting him fare sailing and food.
book nine odysseus finally reveals him self to the phanicians and pleads to the queen after retelling everything he's been through, from plundering the island of ismaurus. though they aren't happy for too long before some giant cyclones start to attack. him and the crew manage to fend off the attack and are later greeted by the lotus eaters. lastly his accounts are when his crew gets captured by poseidons son who's a cyclops. odysseus in order to escaped tricked and killed the cyclops. so he then continued his voyage.
book ten next island they reach is aeeea home to the which goddess circe. when the crew goes t check out the island circe makes them eat a drug that turned them all into pigs. Off to avenge his crew odysseus is greeted by hermes in disguise. he informs him that to beat circe you must not eat the drug shell give him then when she's about to attack to strike first with your sword after he beats her an asks for help She replies he must sail to Hades, the realm of the dead, to speak with the spirit of Tiresias, a blind prophet who will tell him how to get home.The next morning, Odysseus rouses his men for the imminent departure. He discovers, however, that the youngest man in his crew, Elpenor, had gotten drunk the previous night, slept on the roof, and, when he heard the men shouting and marching in the morning, fell from the roof and broke his neck.
book eleven next stop is the river of Ocean in the land of the Cimmerians. there he pours libations and offers sacrifice to attract the dead like circe instructed.After he does that the ghost of elpenor appears asking that odysseus return to circe and give his body a proper burial.Odysseus then speaks with the Theban prophet Tiresias, who reveals that Poseidon is punishing the Achaeans for blinding his son Polyphemus. He foretells Odysseus’s fate—that he will return home, reclaim his wife and palace from the wretched suitors, and then make another trip to a distant land to appease Poseidon. He warns Odysseus not to touch the flocks of the Sun when he reaches the land of Thrinacia; otherwise, he won’t return home without suffering more pain and losing all of his crew. When Tiresias departs, Odysseus calls other spirits toward him. He speaks with his mother, Anticleia, who updates him on the affairs of Ithaca and relates how she died from grief and sadness waiting for his return. He then meets the spirits of various famous men and heroes and hears the stories of their lives and deaths.Odysseus now cuts short the tale and asks his Phaeacian hosts to allow him to sleep, but the king and queen urge him to continue, asking if he met any of the Greeks who fell at Troy in Hades. lastly he sees three heroes being punished in hades. one pushing a boulder to the top but never managing to succeed, another having his liver constantly eaten by vultures, and a last one that despite being hungry and thirsty can't drink and eat. when he tries the food and water move out of reach.
book twelve
Odysseus and his crew sails through the river sticks in hades. they first have to pass through the sirens, Odysseus succeeds by covering his crews ears and having him self be tied to a mast. next they had to avoid a multiple head monster named scylia, she eats a few of his sailers. lastly they see the island of the sun. they tried to avoid killing any of the cattle but soon the crew gives in and as punishment there ship and them are all killed by zeuses storm. only one alive was odysseus. thats when he stops his story to the phanacisns.
book thirteen his story at last being finished odysseus leaves to get some rest. when he wakes up its revealed gifts placed by alcinoos and the help that he will be given a ride home. so he spent the whole ride in the lower decks sleeping while the phanacian crdw was up top sailing. as they arrive in ithica the enraged zeus sees odysseus and pleads to zeus that the crd be punished for helping odysseus.
book fourteen odysseus meets eumaious who takes him in for food. Eumaious may not recognize odysseus but that doesn't change. After that hospitality eumaious lastly gives a cloak to odysseus and ska of his origins. odysseus lies and says he's from crete, but a trip to egypt made him wear and poor.
book fifteen now we jump to telemaucus who is about to depart from pylos until he meets a a prophet called theoclymus who asks to be taken aboard to escape from his crime of manslaughter. The next morning, Telemachus reaches the shores of Ithaca. He disembarks while the crew heads to the city by ship. He entrusts Theoclymenus to a loyal crewman, Piraeus. As they part, they see a hawk fly by carrying a dove in its talons, which Theoclymenus interprets as a favorable sign of the strength of Odysseus’s house and life.
book sixteen telemauchus meets and sees Eumaious an a stranger(Odysseus talking.
theme
book seventeen
telemacus leaves odysseus at the palace and ends up meeting Penelope. while they eat dinner telemaucus tells her of his news leaving out the fact he's met and found odysseus. mean while odsseus in disguise heads to the palace where he's greeted by many suiters. After being mean verbally with all the suiters word reaches penelope and she wants to question him about odysseus.
book eighteen Athena finally convinces penelope to go out and set up a contest for the suitors on who would win her hand in marridge.
book nineteen penelope and odysseus(begged) talk while all the suitors are asleep. she tests his knowledge of her missing husband and after a while she bursts into tears of joy happily learning that he's alive and will be back soon. so she makes a plan to stall the suitors a little longer with one last challenge.
theme marriage loyalty
book twenty the day passes and odyseus, telemauchus, and emulous all talk about there success and how they knew odysseus was alive. the suitors how ever were still mad and plotting telemauchus death. they avoid this though by inviting them to the same death room were the past suitors were killed.
book twenty one penelope announces a contest where the suitor must shoot an arrow through twelve axe holes. all of them tried but failed, except for odysseus. he managed to do it and won her. the suitors all jeaous and angry start to ridicule him not realizing it was him. soon odysseus was revealed. by taking off his disguise.
theme for these four are loyalty, penelope still remains loya to odysseus even after such a long absence
book twenty two out raged he odyseus started attacking and killing all the suitors with arrows. it didn't take long before he shot them all. he also got help from telemauchus and eumaious. by arming them with swords and shields. the only two left was a minstral and herald both who weren't in the competition.
book twenty three
After the blood shed eumarious heads upstairs to wake penelope from her sleep. despite her seeing and even being informed of odysseus's return she still doesn't even believe its really him. she remains cautious due to thinking that this is a trick from the gods. she finally is able to know its him after he gets mad over there bed not being able to move from it being made in oak wood like there house.
twenty four this one starts off focusing on hermese leading all the pleading and dead suitors into hades. while that happens Agamemnon and Achilles argue over who had a better death. soon the souls of the suitors, sailers, and even the two warriors talk about odysseus each giving a different look at him from great man to treacherous murderer. back on the surface odysseus was eating lunch with laertes, while a meeting is going on with the parents about what to do about there sons death from odysseus. they all agree due to euphites and antinios father that they will kill odysseus. right as there about to and odysseus is about to strike, athena comes down and orders him to stop. he does and the story ends.
themes= loyalty all of odysseus friends and family, euphamios, telemauchus, ect all remained his friend upon return, this led to him being able to kill the suitors and win back his wife.
theme= hospitality, calypso and other gods help him by granting him fare sailing and food.
book nine odysseus finally reveals him self to the phanicians and pleads to the queen after retelling everything he's been through, from plundering the island of ismaurus. though they aren't happy for too long before some giant cyclones start to attack. him and the crew manage to fend off the attack and are later greeted by the lotus eaters. lastly his accounts are when his crew gets captured by poseidons son who's a cyclops. odysseus in order to escaped tricked and killed the cyclops. so he then continued his voyage.
book ten next island they reach is aeeea home to the which goddess circe. when the crew goes t check out the island circe makes them eat a drug that turned them all into pigs. Off to avenge his crew odysseus is greeted by hermes in disguise. he informs him that to beat circe you must not eat the drug shell give him then when she's about to attack to strike first with your sword after he beats her an asks for help She replies he must sail to Hades, the realm of the dead, to speak with the spirit of Tiresias, a blind prophet who will tell him how to get home.The next morning, Odysseus rouses his men for the imminent departure. He discovers, however, that the youngest man in his crew, Elpenor, had gotten drunk the previous night, slept on the roof, and, when he heard the men shouting and marching in the morning, fell from the roof and broke his neck.
book eleven next stop is the river of Ocean in the land of the Cimmerians. there he pours libations and offers sacrifice to attract the dead like circe instructed.After he does that the ghost of elpenor appears asking that odysseus return to circe and give his body a proper burial.Odysseus then speaks with the Theban prophet Tiresias, who reveals that Poseidon is punishing the Achaeans for blinding his son Polyphemus. He foretells Odysseus’s fate—that he will return home, reclaim his wife and palace from the wretched suitors, and then make another trip to a distant land to appease Poseidon. He warns Odysseus not to touch the flocks of the Sun when he reaches the land of Thrinacia; otherwise, he won’t return home without suffering more pain and losing all of his crew. When Tiresias departs, Odysseus calls other spirits toward him. He speaks with his mother, Anticleia, who updates him on the affairs of Ithaca and relates how she died from grief and sadness waiting for his return. He then meets the spirits of various famous men and heroes and hears the stories of their lives and deaths.Odysseus now cuts short the tale and asks his Phaeacian hosts to allow him to sleep, but the king and queen urge him to continue, asking if he met any of the Greeks who fell at Troy in Hades. lastly he sees three heroes being punished in hades. one pushing a boulder to the top but never managing to succeed, another having his liver constantly eaten by vultures, and a last one that despite being hungry and thirsty can't drink and eat. when he tries the food and water move out of reach.
book twelve
Odysseus and his crew sails through the river sticks in hades. they first have to pass through the sirens, Odysseus succeeds by covering his crews ears and having him self be tied to a mast. next they had to avoid a multiple head monster named scylia, she eats a few of his sailers. lastly they see the island of the sun. they tried to avoid killing any of the cattle but soon the crew gives in and as punishment there ship and them are all killed by zeuses storm. only one alive was odysseus. thats when he stops his story to the phanacisns.
book thirteen his story at last being finished odysseus leaves to get some rest. when he wakes up its revealed gifts placed by alcinoos and the help that he will be given a ride home. so he spent the whole ride in the lower decks sleeping while the phanacian crdw was up top sailing. as they arrive in ithica the enraged zeus sees odysseus and pleads to zeus that the crd be punished for helping odysseus.
book fourteen odysseus meets eumaious who takes him in for food. Eumaious may not recognize odysseus but that doesn't change. After that hospitality eumaious lastly gives a cloak to odysseus and ska of his origins. odysseus lies and says he's from crete, but a trip to egypt made him wear and poor.
book fifteen now we jump to telemaucus who is about to depart from pylos until he meets a a prophet called theoclymus who asks to be taken aboard to escape from his crime of manslaughter. The next morning, Telemachus reaches the shores of Ithaca. He disembarks while the crew heads to the city by ship. He entrusts Theoclymenus to a loyal crewman, Piraeus. As they part, they see a hawk fly by carrying a dove in its talons, which Theoclymenus interprets as a favorable sign of the strength of Odysseus’s house and life.
book sixteen telemauchus meets and sees Eumaious an a stranger(Odysseus talking.
theme
book seventeen
telemacus leaves odysseus at the palace and ends up meeting Penelope. while they eat dinner telemaucus tells her of his news leaving out the fact he's met and found odysseus. mean while odsseus in disguise heads to the palace where he's greeted by many suiters. After being mean verbally with all the suiters word reaches penelope and she wants to question him about odysseus.
book eighteen Athena finally convinces penelope to go out and set up a contest for the suitors on who would win her hand in marridge.
book nineteen penelope and odysseus(begged) talk while all the suitors are asleep. she tests his knowledge of her missing husband and after a while she bursts into tears of joy happily learning that he's alive and will be back soon. so she makes a plan to stall the suitors a little longer with one last challenge.
theme marriage loyalty
book twenty the day passes and odyseus, telemauchus, and emulous all talk about there success and how they knew odysseus was alive. the suitors how ever were still mad and plotting telemauchus death. they avoid this though by inviting them to the same death room were the past suitors were killed.
book twenty one penelope announces a contest where the suitor must shoot an arrow through twelve axe holes. all of them tried but failed, except for odysseus. he managed to do it and won her. the suitors all jeaous and angry start to ridicule him not realizing it was him. soon odysseus was revealed. by taking off his disguise.
theme for these four are loyalty, penelope still remains loya to odysseus even after such a long absence
book twenty two out raged he odyseus started attacking and killing all the suitors with arrows. it didn't take long before he shot them all. he also got help from telemauchus and eumaious. by arming them with swords and shields. the only two left was a minstral and herald both who weren't in the competition.
book twenty three
After the blood shed eumarious heads upstairs to wake penelope from her sleep. despite her seeing and even being informed of odysseus's return she still doesn't even believe its really him. she remains cautious due to thinking that this is a trick from the gods. she finally is able to know its him after he gets mad over there bed not being able to move from it being made in oak wood like there house.
twenty four this one starts off focusing on hermese leading all the pleading and dead suitors into hades. while that happens Agamemnon and Achilles argue over who had a better death. soon the souls of the suitors, sailers, and even the two warriors talk about odysseus each giving a different look at him from great man to treacherous murderer. back on the surface odysseus was eating lunch with laertes, while a meeting is going on with the parents about what to do about there sons death from odysseus. they all agree due to euphites and antinios father that they will kill odysseus. right as there about to and odysseus is about to strike, athena comes down and orders him to stop. he does and the story ends.
themes= loyalty all of odysseus friends and family, euphamios, telemauchus, ect all remained his friend upon return, this led to him being able to kill the suitors and win back his wife.
Odyssey
Alcinoos
Aertes
Nasusaica
Zeus
Poesidon
Dionyuessy
Heptausees
Cyclopians
King Agaemmenon
Aiolos
Apollo
Artemis
Ares
Aprodhite
Crete
Crice
Hades
Persphinesia
Athena
Perimedes
Eurylochos
Elpenor
Telemacous
Odyssesy's mother
Antiope
Pelais
Neleys
Castor
Clyeme
Helen
Peleus
Agammenon
Amphinomos
Achilles
Telemachos
Helen
Laertes
Menelaus
Penelope
Aias (Ajax)
Antinoos
Orestes
Eurymachos
Nestor
Lotus Eaters
Mentor
Polyphemos
Alcinoos
Scylla
Arete
Charybdis
Emaios
Aiolos
Theoclymenos
Elpenor
Melanthios
Teiresias
Arnaios
Eurylochos
Eurycleia
Cassandra
Tantalus
Sisyphus
Agammenon
Amphinomos
Achilles
Telemachos
Helen
Laertes
Menelaus
Penelope
Aias (Ajax)
Antinoos
Orestes
Eurymachos
Nestor
Lotus Eaters
Mentor
Polyphemos
Alcinoos
Scylla
Arete
Charybdis
Emaios
Aiolos
Theoclymenos
Elpenor
Melanthios
Teiresias
Arnaios
Eurylochos
Eurycleia
Cassandra
Tantalus
Sisyphus
