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Odysseus' ordinary world is "on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca" (Homer 1). the epic her and protagonist lives with his wife, penelope, and 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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Athena assists Odysseus and Telemachus with divine powers throughout the epic, and she speaks up for them in the councils of the gods on Mount Olympus. She often appears in disguise as Mentor, an old friend of Odysseus.
/Circe helps Odysseus by telling him how to get home and what will happen at each island. She tells him he will come to the island of sirens (p. ... Odysseus takes the advice about Scylla to just flee Scylla even if she takes his men, he must not fight back./Teiresias watch over odysseus during the trojan war.

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Crossing the Threshold (The Land of the Dead) 

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Crossing the Threshold (The Land of the Dead) 

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This is the point where the hero leaves on their journey. Belly of the Whale - In this stage, the hero encounters the first obstacle after leaving on the journey. This step is the end of the departure stage.

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Battle of the cicones- The  (a name for the Greeks) have defeated the Trojans. ODYSSEUS, his men, and their twelve ships, begin their journey home to ITHACA. The storm winds take them to the land of the cicones  where Odysseus and his men sack the main city Ismarus, attack their people, and steal their possessions.

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When Odysseus' men went onto the Lotus Eaters island, they were encouraged by the natives to eat the Lotus plant. "This plant acted as a type of drug, causing the sailors to forget about their home and their goals." Instead, the sailors only wanted to stay on the island, eating more Lotus plants.

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The cave's inhabitant soon returns, "it is the Cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon. Polyphemus makes a show of hospitality at first, but he soon turns hostile." He devours two of Odysseus's men on the spot and imprisons Odysseus and the rest in his cave for future meals.

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Island of Aeolia (encounter with Aeolus) 

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Island of Aeolia (encounter with Aeolus) 

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This island was first found when Odysseus and his men kept sailing and sailing until they stumbled across an island floating above the sea with a steep cliff of bronze with a palace on top of it. "They soon realized they have come upon the island of Aeolia, home of Aeolus, god of wind."

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in the land of the Laestrygonians,47 a race of cannibals. These creatures destroy all of Odysseus’ ships except the one he is sailing in. The Laestrygonians /were a tribe of man-eating giants from ancient Greek mythology. They were said to have sprung from Laestrygon, son of Poseidon.

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He tells Odysseus to eat an herb called moly to protect himself from Circe's drug and then lunge at her when she tries to strike him with her sword. Odysseus follows Hermes' instructions, overpowering Circe and forcing her to change his men back to their human forms. She describes the obstacles that he will face on his voyage home and tells him how to negotiate them. As he sets sail, Odysseus passes Circe's counsel on to his men. They approach the island of the lovely Sirens, and Odysseus, as instructed by Circe, ... whom he thinks have duped him and left him in some unknown land. The most important value at the core of The Odyssey is hospitality, a social ... In return, guests would be expected to pose no threat to the life or property of ... the Cyclops to his stay among the Phaeacians to his defeat of the greedy suitors. Hermes was constantly associated with the protection of cattle and sheep, and he was often closely connected with deities of vegetation, especially Pan and the nymphs. ... As a messenger, he may also have become the god of roads and doorways, and he was the protector of travellers.

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''Sirens weaving a haunting song over the sea we are to shun, she said, and their green shore all sweet with clover; yet she urged that I alone should listen to their song."

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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"But scarcely had that island
faded in blue air than I saw smoke
and white water, with sound of waves in tumult— a sound the men heard, and it terrified them.Circe’s
bidding against arms had slipped my mind, so I tied on my cuirass and took up two heavy spears, then made my way along to the foredeck thinking to see her first from there,
the monster of the gray rock, harboring torment for my friends."

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When this decision is made, Zeus sends Hermes on his way to Calypso to tell her to let Odysseus go home. She does so unwillingly, but she really has no choice, as the king of the gods has spoken. Calypso, therefore, helps Odysseus by giving him some supplies to make a sail and off Odysseus goes.
Ten years after the Trojan War, Odysseus departs from the goddess Calypso’s island. He arrives in Phaeacia, ruled by Alcinous. Alcinous offers a ship to Odysseus and asks him to tell of his adventures.

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They're excellent mariners and skilled with all kinds of ocean activities - fishing, boatbuilding, navigating, you name it. They are instrumental in Odysseus's return to Ithaca. he visited Pylos and Sparta in search of his wandering father.

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On his return, he found that Odysseus had reached home before him. Then father and son slew the suitors who had gathered around Penelope.

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Eumaeus was Odysseus' loyal servant and swineherd, a man of sound principles, who never forgot the immortals. He received Odysseus in his hut when after his wanderings Odysseus returned to Ithaca, and later he helped his master to get rid of the suitors of penelope, who were pestering the palace.

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During Odysseus' long absence, unmarried young men start to suspect that Odysseus died in Troy or on the journey home. Under the pretense of courting Penelope, these youths, called "the suitors", take up residence in Odysseus' home and vie for her hand in marriage. As when Odysseus tarries in the cave of the Cyclops, when his men slaughter the Sun's flocks, or when they eat the fruit of the lotus. The suitors, moreover, are constantly eating. to all the suitors,
go overland on foot, and take an oar, until one day you come where men have lived with meat unsalted, never known the sea, nor seen seagoing ships, with crimson bows
and oars that fledge light hulls for dipping flight.

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Odysseus urges his exhausted crew to pass the island of the sun god , Thrinacia. They went after the cattle when Odysseus went off on his own and fell asleep. When Odysseus woke from his nap, he went down and caught sight of all of his crew eating the cattle that they slaughtered. Odysseus urges his exhausted crew to pass the island of the sun god ,Thrinacia . ... They went after the cattle when Odysseus went off on his own and fell asleep. When Odysseus woke from his nap, he went down and caught sight of all of his crew eating the cattle that they slaughtered.

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Getting back to his peaceful home of Ithaca and reuniting with Penelope and Telemachus is the ultimate ordeal of Odysseus. Before he can do that, he must drive the careless suitors from his once proud household. Now shrugging off his rags the wiliest fighter of the islands leapt and stood on the broad doorsill, his own bow in his hand. He poured out at his feet a rain of arrows from the quiver and spoke to the crowd: “So much for that. Your clean-cut game is over. Now watch me hit a target that no man has hit before,if I can make this shot. Help me, Apollo.”

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Odysseus decides to go to Circe and try to get her to let his men go. On his way to Circe's home Odysseus runs into Hermes. Hermes gives him a magical flower that can keep him protected from Circe's spells and Hermes also gives Odysseus some advice.

. 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.

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Odysseus receives passage home. The road back - Odysseus returns home to find his wife is being courted by many suitors. Resurrection of the hero - Odysseus is patient and dresses as a beggar to test his wife's fidelity. Return with the elixir - He learns she has been faithful, and their union is restored.

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Odysseus is considered an epic hero for his role as King of Ithaca, his participation in the war, and his journey home. ... A hero has some type of superhuman ability, such as intelligence, physical strength, or bravery: Odysseus was known for his ability to think himself out of tough situations.