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Odysseus Ordinary World is "the peaked sea marked Ithaca "(Homer 21). He is living in Ithaca with his wife Penelope and his newborn son Telemachus.

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Odysseus did not want to participate in the war. Athena convinced him to sail to Troy and use his intelligence to defeat the Trojans.

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Odysseus' mentors were Athena, Tiresias, and Circe. Athena guides Odysseus by giving him wisdom. Tiresias and Circe give odysseus wisdom.

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Crossing of the Threshold (The Land of the Dead)

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Crossing of the Threshold (The Land of the Dead)

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Odysseus crosses the threshold when he goes to the land of the dead to "...consult the blind profit Tiresias (Homer). Tiresias tells Odysseus that he is being punished for violating the greek value of death or leaving Elpenor "...of our company laid unburied" (Homer 580).

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Odysseus sailed to Cicones and made landfall there, he raided a town violating the greek value of hospitality "I stormed the place and killed men" (Homer 40). His men were mutants and a lot died because they didn't listen to him.

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Odysseus lands on a strange island with lotus flowers everywhere, he shoes intelligence, because he takes only a few other cremates with him.

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He lands on an Island that is inherited by a cyclopes, he tired to be nice but the cyclopes wanted to eat him and his men. Athena then gave him wisdom to escape the cyclopes.

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Test: Island of Aeolia (encounter with Aeolus) 

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Test: Island of Aeolia (encounter with Aeolus) 

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The king of the wind sent him a gift. He was supposed to but it back but he didn't.

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Aeolus casts Odysseus out of his island and they sail to the land of Laestrygonians, they destroy all of Odysseus' ships except for his.

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Odysseus sails to the island of Aeaea, where Circe the scorceeres-godess Circe turns half of Odysseus' men into pigs. Odysseus convinces her to let his men go and she tells him to go to the land of the dead.

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Tiresias warns Odysseus that he will sail by sirens on his way back to the Circe's island. Odysseus has his men tie him to the mast of his ship so he cant jump into the water.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Odysseus has to choose to lose either 6 men to Scylla, the multi headed monster, or lose his entire ship. This shows his intelligence.

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Calypso puts Odysseus under a spell for 7 years, and he finally escapes when the gods intervene and tell Calypso she had to let him go.

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The Phaeacians help Odysseus get home to Ithaca. Telemachus helped Odysseus fight the suitors and hide from them.

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The suitors have been in Odysseus' home for 20 years trying to get with his wife. They have been eating his food and being unpleasant guests, violating the greek value of hospitality and respect.

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Odysseus and is crew are stranded on an Island that has the cattle of helios the sun god. After some time stranded there, odysseus goes inland and prays to Zeus, but while he is doing this his crew. As revenge for eating his cattle helios convinces Zeus to kill Odysseus' men.

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Zeus and Athena disguise odysseus as a beggar and have him enter his own home to prove that the suitors are violating the greek value of hospitality. Odysseus kills all of the suitors with the help of the gods and Telemachus.

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Odysseus tells his story to king Alcinous of the Phaeacians who gives him safe passage home, showing the greek value of hospitality.

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Odysseus gets to spend the rest of his life peacefully with Penelope and Telemachus.

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Odysseus is a hero because he shows three heroic traits. Those being leadership, courage/bravery, and intelligence. "Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me" (Homer 359). Bravery; "how can two men do battle with a houseful" (Homer). Leadership; "four strong men and I made 5 as a captain" (Homer 285).