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The ordinary world for Odysseus is "on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca" (Homer line 21).  Odysseus lives in Ithaca with his son Telemachus and wife Penelope.

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Odysseus' call to adventure is the Trojan War "plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy" (Homer lines 4-5).  Odysseus did not want to fight in the war; however, Athena convinced him to sail to Troy and use his intelligence to defeat the Trojans.

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Odysseus' three mentors were Athena, Circe, and Teiresias.  Athena is the goddess of wisdom and war, and she helps Odysseus often throughout the story "As for my change of skin, that is a charm Athena, Hope of Soldiers, uses as she will" (Homer lines 1052-1054).  Circe is an enchantress, and held Odysseus for some time, but afterward, she was told and guided Odysseus through most of his tests "she said, and their green shore all sweet with clover; yet she urged that I alone should listen to their song" (Homer lines 692-694).  Teiresias is the blind prophet Odysseus meets in Hades, and he tells Odysseus  to leave Helios' cattle alone "Avoid those kine, hold fast to your intent" (Homer lines 643).

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During The Land of the Dead, Odysseus crossed the threshold. The enchantress/goddess Circe directed Odysseus to Hades after she had freed him "Circe informs him that in order to reach home he must journey to the land of the dead, Hades, and consult the blind prophet Tiresias" (Homer).  He leaves his normal world, Earth, for the new world, Hades.

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During the Battle of Cicones, Odysseus and his men killed and raided the men they were fighting.  His men were quite prideful, which violates Greek values, causing Zeus to become aggravated "doom appeared to us, dark word of Zeus for us" (Homer lines 55-56).

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Sailing away after the Battle of Cicones,  with Zeus still angry with them, causing constant storms, Odysseus and his men find the Lotus Flower.  The Lotus Flower causes those who eat it to lose their will to get home "but those who ate this honeyed plant, the Lotus, never cared to report, nor to return" (Homer lines 97-98).  Odysseus shows the Greek value of Leadership when he ties his men down to stop them from eating more Lotus Flowers .

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Arriving on an island inhabited by Cyclopes, Odysseus and his men enter Polyphemus' cave and get entrapped.  Odysseus is in the cave for a while, but eventually escapes by blinding the Cyclops and riding under his sheep, who were all brought in the prior night due to his prayers to Athena.  When they are leaving, Odysseus violates the Greek value of excessive pride and brags to Polyphemus "How do you like the beating we gave you, you damned cannibal?" (Homer lines 433-434) to which Polyphemus responds by praying to Poseidon, his father, to make Odysseus' journey home long and harsh.

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Aeolus is the god of the winds and the king of Aeolia.  He gifts Odysseus a sack containing many different winds and orders Odysseus not to open it.  As Odysseus and his men get close to home, the men decide to open the bag of wind, which causes them to be blown all the way back to Aeolia "Odysseus’ men open the sack, letting loose a storm that drives them back to Aeolia" (Homer).

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After being cast out by Aeolus, Odysseus' men sail for seven days and end up in the land of the Laestrygonians, a race of cannibals. They destroy nearly all of Odysseus' ships, excluding the one he is sailing "These creatures destroy all of Odysseus’ ships except the one he is sailing in" (Homer).

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On their last ship, the men reach the island ruled by goddess CIrce, Aeaea.  Upon arrival, half of Odysseus' men are turned to swine "She transforms half of the men into swine" (Homer).  Odysseus demands his people be turned back.  A year later, Hermes shows up and has Odysseus set free, and Circe tells him to travel to Hades, informs them of the Sirens, as well as Scylla and Charybdis.

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As Odysseus and his men continue sailing, they encounter the Sirens Circe spoke of.  Circe sent wind in their favor, and allowed them to relax while they sailed "But soon an offshore breeze blew to our liking—
a canvas-bellying breeze, a lusty shipmate sent by the singing nymph with sunbright hair" (Homer lines 679-681). As they neared closer to the Sirens, Odysseus shows intelligence by having his mens' ears plugged to stop them from hearing the Siren song, as well as having them tie him down, no matter what.

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The men near the multi-headed monster Scylla and the whirlpool creating Charybdis.  As they are trickily attempting to get around the two monsters, Odysseus prays to Zeus for help "Zeus help us pull away before we founder" (Homer line 776).  Odysseus upholds the Greek value of Leadership by motivating his soldiers to keep fighting "Friends, have we never been in danger before this? More fearsome, is it now, than when the Cyclops penned us 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 lines 765-770).

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Odysseus' men are all killed by the wrath of Zeus and he arrives on the Isle of Ogygia and is detained by Calypso for years "I made shore, buoyed up by the gods,
upon Ogygia Isle. The dangerous nymph Calypso lives and sings there, in her beauty, and she received me, loved me" (Homer lines 990-993).

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Odysseus' three allies throughout The Odyssey are The Phaeacians "the Phaeacians, gave me passage (Homer line 1074), Telemachus "Telemachus, true son of King Odysseus, belted his sword on, clapped hand to his spear, and with a clink and glitter of keen bronze stood by his chair, in the forefront near his father" (Homer lines 1402-1405), and Eumaeus "Eumaeus, his old and faithful swineherd" (Homer).

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In The Odyssey, Odysseus' big enemies are the suitors "to find
your own house filled with trouble: insolent men eating your livestock as they court your lady" (Homer lines 648-650).

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The ordeal in The Odyssey is The Cattle of the Sun God.  The sun god/god of light, is Helios "Fierce the god is who cherishes these heifers and these sheep: Helios" (Homer lines 841-843).  Tiresias informed Odysseus of his cattle and instructed him not to interact with them.  Odysseus upheld the value of prayer "So one day I withdrew to the interior to pray the gods in solitude" (Homer lines 854-855), but lost all his men in the process.

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The supreme ordeal in the Odyssey is Odysseus' revenge on the suitors.  He is helped by goddess Athena, as well as his son Telemachus "Aided by Athena, Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and other faithful herdsmen kill all the suitors" (Homer).

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Odysseus' journey home was definitely a long one.  Aided by the Phaeacians, at the beginning of The Odyssey, it shows that Odysseus is telling the story of his Journey to King Alcinous "He arrives in Phaeacia, ruled by Alcinous. Alcinous offers a ship to Odysseus and asks him to tell of his adventures" (Homer).

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Odysseus' reward is being reunited with his family and reclaiming the throne of Ithaca "Odysseus has regained his family and his kingdom" (Homer).

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Odysseus is an epic hero because he displays all three heroic characteristics we discussed, leadership in The Sirens when he has his men tie him up "Therefore you are to tie me up, tight as a splint, erect along the mast, lashed to the mast, and if I shout and beg to be untied, take more turns of the rope to muffle me" (Homer lines 694-698), intelligence in The Cyclops when he uses the sheep to escape "my men riding on the pectoral fleece the giant’s blind hands blundering never found" (Homer lines 394-395 ), and courage when he stabs out Polyphemus' eye "sprinted, lifted it, and rammed it deep in his crater eye" (Homer lines 332-333) and when he takes on all of the suitors "Aided by Athena, Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and other faithful herdsmen kill all the suitors" (Homer).