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Ithaca is Odysseus ordinary world. Here he lived with his wife, Penelope and his son, Telemachus. "My home is on the sea-marked of Ithaca" (Homer line 21)

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After initially refusing to participate, Athena convinces Odysseus to use his intelligence to defeat the Trojans. " After he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy" (Homer lines 4-5)

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Athena mentors Odysseus throughout the whole story. She first helps by granting odysseus with wisdom on how to escape Polyphemus, using the sheep. "if but Athena granted what I prayed for" (Homer line 264)
Circe helps mentor Odysseus before he encounters the Sirens. Circe explains what he will encounter, "the goddess reveals his course to him and gives advice on how to avoid the dangers he will face." (Homer pg. 580)
Teiresias explains to odysseus when he is in The Land Of The Dead what monsters and gods they will face and how they can make it out alive. "make a fair sacrifice to Lord Poseidon: a ram, a bull, a great buck boar" (Homer lines 663-664)

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Odysseus crosses the threshold and enters the 'new world'  in the land of the dead. They are here because the goddess Circe told to consult with the blind prophet tiresias to find out their destiny. While they are here we learn that Odysseus violated the greek value of for leaving "Elpanor,   of our company...unburied (Homer 578-579)

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While the men were sailing from Troy, Zeus made a storm that carried them to the island of Ismarus "On the coast of Cicones" (Homer 43). They had a quick battle and once Odysseus and his men returned back to their ship victorious, they upheld the greek value of death by mourning for their fallen soldiers.

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After the battle of the Cicones the men stopped at an island called, Djerba. Where Odysseus "sent out two men and a runner to learn what race was on the island" (homer lines 93-94). This was when Odysseus finds out that the flowers are poisonous, once consumed the host loses all desire to return home. Using his intelligence, Odysseus makes a plan to tie his men up and sail to another island.

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The next stop was on the island of Sicily. Where Odysseus and his men wandered into a cyclops' cave and trapped themselves. "If I killed him we perished there as well, for we could never move his ponderous doorway slab aside. "(Homer lines 647-50). Odysseus prays to Athena to help them escape, she grants them with his entire herd of sheep to hide under and escape.

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Next, Odysseus arrives at the island of Aeolia where Aeolus, the king of winds lives. The god sends Odysseus with a gift "a sack containing all the winds excpt the favorable west wind" (Homer pg. 576) The instructions were to not open the bag. However, Odysseus men demonstrate their inattentiveness by opening the bad and blowing them all the way to the land of the Laestrygonians.

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Eventually the men arrive at the land  of the laestrygonians. These people are a race of cannibals that "destroy all of Odysseus' ships except the one he is sailing in" (Homer pg. 576)

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Once the men escape from the laestrygonians they reach an island ruled by the goddess Circe. She casts a spell that turns all the men into animals however "protected by a magic herb, Odysseus demands that circe change his men back into human form" (Homer pg. 576). The messenger god, Hermes is the god that gave Odysseus the magical herb.

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On his journey home Odysseus and his men encountered The sirens, just like tiresias had warned them. "The sirens lure sailors into their destruction" (Homer pg 580). They began to lure the men in with their singing. However, Odysseus prepared for this by stuffing his mens ears with wax and by tying himself to a pole. So they could not be led to their death.

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Next, Mirroring what the blind prophet Tierces told the men. They encountered 2 sea monsters, Scylla- a 6 headed sea monster & Charybdis- a whirl pool. 6 men were ate by Scylla during the process. "Scylla made her strike, whisking six of my best men from the ship" (Homer lines 809-810). The men upheld greek values during this episode because the respected the fallen soldiers (dead).

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Odysseus was trapped under calypso's spell for 7 years. However, Odysseus said that he remained true to the greek values because he never gave consent. "ten years after the trojan war, Odysseus departs from the goddess Calypso's island" (Homer pg. 562)

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The Phaeacians helped Odysseus  on his way home by donating a ship. But, in return Odysseus had to tell his story to the king. "The next day, young Phaeacian noblemen conduct him home by ship" (Homer pg. 595)
Telemachus Helped Odysseus when he returned to the island, Odysseus explained that he was telemachus' father and that he needed help conquering all of the suitors to get Penelope back. "throwing his arms around this marvel of a father Telemachus began to weep" (Homer 1060-1061)
Eumaeus is an old friend/servant who aids Odysseus and Telemachus in the battle with the suitors. Also he described what happened to the dog to the 'beggar' when he says "A hunter owned him-but the man is dead in some far place" (Homer 1190-1191)

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Polyphemus wished that when Odysseus returned home he would find suitors in his house, eating his food and trying to win over his wife. That is exactly what happened. Odysseus' main enemy in this story was the suitors. They violated many of the greek values one of them being the rule of hospitality. This is proven when the lead suitor, Antinous, threw a chair at the 'Beggar'. "The stool he let fly hit the man's right shoulder" (Homer 1238)

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During the journey home Zeus created a storm that drove them to the island Thrinacia. Home of Helios, god of the sun. Odysseus told his men not to eat the cattle here repeatedly. However, hunger drove the men desperate, so when Odysseus fell asleep his men slaughtered and ate a cow. Zeus punishes the men by striking the ship with a lightning bolt and killing everyone except Odysseus. "Zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit...all the men were flung to sea" (Homer 978-951)

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The supreme ordeal in this story is when Odysseus returns home and has to defeat all of the suitors. After odysseus kills the main suitor the rest of them beg for forgiveness and to spare their lives but Odysseus does not give in and he kills all of them. "Spare your own people, and as for ourselves, we'll make restitution of wine and meat consumed, and add, each one, a tilith of twenty oxen with gifts of bronze and gold to warm your heart" (Homer 1458-1462). The god that helped Odysseus in this was Zeus because he signaled when it was time to begin killing the suitors. And the greek value that was upheld in this was bravery, Odysseus was Telemachus were both very brave to fight all the suitors.

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To return home Odysseus took one of the Phaeacians boats in return for telling King Alcinous all about his journey. Odysseus also used the Muses to help recap the story to the king. And once he finally makes it back to Ithaca, Athena disguises Odysseus to look like a beggar so he can hide his identity to get into his own house. Once he is inside he reveals himself and kills every single suitor. "...If you think you can escape death. I doubt one man of you skins by." (Homer 1470-1471)

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Odysseus gets his wife back and he is finally happy again. "You make my stiff heart know that I am yours" (Homer 1612)

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Odysseus is very much a hero, he has showed us many reasons why we should believe this. First of all he is very Intelligent, for example when him and his men were trapped in the cyclops's cave Odysseus had the integrity to tell the cyclops that his name was 'nohbdy' so that he could not be tracked. "My name is Nohbdy: mother, father and friends, everyone calls me Nohbdy." (Homer  315-316)
We have also seen his leadership skills many times. An example of this is when Odysseus had to calm his men down when they were frightened when they were facing Scylla and Charybdis. "Friends have we never been in more danger than this? More fearsome, is it now, than when the cyclops penned is in his cave? What power he had! Did I not keep my nerve and use my wits to find a way out for us?" (Homer 766-770)
Finally we have seen Odysseus perseverance, after Odysseus long journey, he still managed to never give up until he got his wife back. Odysseus never gave up throughout the whole story. "You much think hard if you conjure up the fighting strength to take us through." (Homer 1106-1107)