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Odysseus home is "...on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca" (Homer line 21). He is the king of Ithaca and lives with his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus.

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Odysseus' call to adventure is when "...he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy" (Homer lines 4-5). 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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Athena is Odysseus' main mentor. She guides and helps him many times throughout the epic poem. She likes him because he uses his intelligence in war.  "Athena, counseling me..." (Homer lines 1133-1134).
Circe becomes his mentor after turns half of his men into swine and keeps him for a year. She tells him "...in order to reach home he must journey to the land of the dead, Hades, and consult the blind prophet Tiresias" (Homer). She also later on tells him how to get defeat the Sirens and get past Scylla and Charybdis.
Teiresias, the blind prophet, tells him his destiny. He warns him, "...anguish lies ahead; the god who thunders on the land prepares it..."  (Homer lines 633-634). He tells him not to eat Helios' cattle because if he does there will be great consequences. He also tells him that all his men will die and that when he gets home, men will be eating his food and suiting his wife.

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Odysseus enters the new world when he listens to Circe to consult Tiresias in the Land of the Dead. For the first time in the epic poem Odysseus experiences fear, "From every side they came and sought the pit with rustling cries; and I grew sick with fear" (Homer lines 569-570). He breaks the value of death when, "...Elpenor...who lay unburied" (Homer lines 578-579). He didn't honor the dead by giving Elpenor the proper burial he wanted.

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Odysseus and his men "...stormed that place and killed the men who fought. Plunder we took, and we enslaved women..." (Homer lines 43-44). They break a value when they get greedy, "My men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. Sheep after sheep they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle, feasting"(Homer lines 47-50). As a consequence, "doom appeared to us dark word of Zeus for us, our evil days" (Homer lines 55-56). Zeus punishes Odysseus and his men.  Six benches of men died in the Battle of the Cicones. They honored the value of death by having, "no ship made sail next day until some...raised a cry, three times, for each...ghost" (Homer lines 67-69).

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After the storm they land on the Lotus-Eaters coast. Odysseus quickly realizes "...those who ate...the Lotus, never cared to report, nor to return" (Homer lines 97-98). He gathers his crew and the sail off.

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Odysseus and his men come across and island. They get out and look to see how lives there. They come across Polyphemus' cave where Odysseus shows hospitality and kindness by, "A wineskin full... and victuals.."(Homer lines 152-153). He was got this liquor from, "Euanthes’ son, Maron" (Homer lines 138-139). But he soon takes some of Polyphemus' things when he sees that he isn't home. When Polyphemus gets back he asks who they are and what they are doing. Odysseus explains that they have gifts and that, "...have a care for the gods’ courtesy; Zeus will avenge
the unoffending guest"(Homer lines 214-216). Polyphemus breaks a value when he says, "We Cyclopes care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus or all the gods in bliss" (Homer lines 219-221). Polyphemus starts to eat Odysseus' men as they, "...cried aloud, lifting our hands to Zeus" (Homer line 239). Odysseus shows self-control and doesn't kill him because he needs him to roll the stone away so they can get out. Polyphemus asks what his name is and Odysseus tells him his name is Nohbdy. After he gets Polyphemus drunk he stabs him in the eye and they hide under the sheep and wait till morning. When Polyphemus lets his sheep out Odysseus and his men climb out from underneath the sheep and run to the ship. But Odysseus breaks a value and gets prideful when he says, "...if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye...'" (Homer lines 457-459). Polyphemus turns out to be Poseidon's son and shows a value by praying to Poseidon for "...grant that Odysseus...never
see his home...should destiny
intend that he shall see his roof again...far be that day, and dark the years between.." (Homer lines 486-491). Odysseus tries and makes a sacrifice to Zeus but Zeus breaks his ship. "I slew him by the seaside and burnt his long thighbones
to Zeus...Zeus disdained my offering; destruction for my ships...and death for those who sailed them" (Homer lines 509-514).

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Odysseus and his crew sail to the island of Aeolia, "...where Aeolus, kind of the winds, sends...a sack containing...winds" (Homer). His men don't listen and open the bag of winds immediately and get blown back to the island. Aeolus sends them back but decides that they are detested by the gods.

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After seven days they arrive in the land of the Laestrygonians. The greek value of hospitality is broken when the cannibals, "...destroy all of Odysseus' ships except the one he is sailing in" (Homer).

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Once the reach Aeaea, Circe, "transforms half of the men into swine" (Homer). Hermes give Odysseus "a magic herb" (Homer). Odysseus demands that she turn them back. After she keeps them for a year she helps him out and tells him to go to the Land of the Dead.

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Circe, "foresaw for us and shared with me" (Homer line 687), about the Sirens. Odysseus tells his men the plan of how to resist the SIrens. His men tie him down. With Helios' help "a burning heat came down..."(Homer line 710), and heated the beeswax so Odysseus' men could plug their ears. He tries to break free as he is enchanted with the Sirens song but his men listen and tie him down tighter.

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Odysseus comes across Scylla, a six-headed sea monster, and Charybdis, a whirlpool. He knows that he won't be able to get out of it without losing some men. So he chooses the side with Scylla, "...Scylla made her strike, whisking six of my best men from the ship" (Homer 809-810). Him and his crew uphold the value of death by mourning. "Voices came down to me in anguish, calling my name for the last time" (Homer lines 813-814).

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After all of Odysseus's men were killed he arrived at Calypso's island. Where she put a spell on him and kept him as her lover for seven years. Until Zeus found out and helped Odysseus escape. Odysseus was loyal because he was under a spell and wasn't able to give consent. "The dangerous nymph Calypso lives and sings there, in her beauty, and she received me, loved me" (Homer lines 993).

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The Phaeacians: If he tells them his journey they will give him a boat back to Ithaca. "Phaeacian noblemen conduct him home by ship" (Homer).
Telemachus: Helps him get revenge on the suitors and get his wife and kingdom back. "...But with a spear throw from behind Telemachus hit him between the shoulders, and the lancehead drove clear through his chest" (Homer lines 1497-1499).
Eumaeus: He is Odysseus's shephard how gives him food and shelter. "While Odysseus and Eumaeus are eating breakfast " (Homer).

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The Suitors: They eat his food, trash his home, plan to kill his son, and try to marry his wife. "...suitors...continually seeking the hand of his wife...in marriage...overrunning Odysseus’ palace...they are plotting to murder Odysseus’ son..." (Homer).

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The Ordeal is Cattle of the Sun God.   Odysseus and his men get to an island with Helios's cows. Odysseus goes off to think and the gods put him to sleep. Meanwhile Odysseus's men slaughter and eat the cows. Helios is mad so him and Zeus punish them and they die. "...Lord Helios burst into angry speech amid the immortals..." (Homer lines 905-906). Odysseus survives because he says that the gods put him to sleep so Zeus lets him go. Worship is upheld in this episode when Odysseus prayed to the gods. "...I withdrew to the interior to pray the gods in solitude... " (Homer lines 854-855).

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The Supreme Ordeal is Odysseus' Revenge. He gets his revenge by killing all of the suitors, "Aided by Athena, Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and other faithful herdsmen kill all the suitors" (Homer). The suitors dishonored the value of hospitality. "You took my house to plunder...You dared bid for my wife while I was still alive. Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven, contempt for what men say of you hereafter. Your last hour has come. You die in blood" (Homer lines 1441-1444 ).

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Odysseus tells the Phaeacians his journey so they give him a boat back to Ithaca. "Phaeacian noblemen conduct him home by ship" (Homer). It is also when he tells the suitors that he is really Odysseus. "You yellow dogs, you thought I’d never make it home from the land of Troy” (Homer lines 1439-1440).

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He gets to have his home, kingdom, and family back. "Odysseus is reunited with his father. Athena commands that peace prevail between Odysseus and the relatives of the slain suitors. Odysseus has regained his family and his kingdom" (Homer).

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Throughout this epic poem, Odysseus shows heroic traits of leadership, bravery, and intelligence. He shows leadership when he tells his crew what they have to do to get past the Sirens. "The crew being now silent before me, I addressed them, sore at heart..." (Homer lines 684-685). He shows bravery when he tries Penelope's test, "Now flashed arrow from twanging bow clean as a whistle through every socket ring, and grazed not one, to thud with heavy brazen head beyond" (Homer lines 1389-1392). He is brave for stepping out from the crowd and showing the suitors what he can do. He shows intelligence when he deceives Polyphemus into thinking their ships are destroyed.  "My ship? Poseidon Lord...broke it up on the rocks at your land's end" (Homer lines 227-229). He knew that Polyphemus wanted to know if they were trapped on the island. He also shows intelligence when he tricks Polyphemus into thinking his name is Nohbdy. "Cyclops, you ask my honorable name?...My name is Nohbdy..." (Homer lines 312-315). It is a what causes the other cyclops to not help Polyphemus. These are important characteristics because it is what makes him a great warrior.