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Odysseus has been lost at sea for ten years trying to find his way home to Ithaca and Athena is asking Zeus to help him.

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Back in Ithaca, Odysseus's son, Telemachus, has married Penelope who has many suitors trying to gain her attention. These suitors have been ruining and dishonoring the land and are planning on killing Telemachus when he returns.

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For seven of the ten years Odysseus has been lost at sea, he was held captive by the goddess Calypso. Zeus sends the god Hermes to get him released.

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Calypso reluctantly to let him and go but only helps him build a raft. Odysseus has to sail for 20 days before he gets the Scheria where he will be aided on his quest to go home.

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When Odysseus and his men land on the island of the Lotus Eaters, Odysseus sends two men and a runner to investigate the place. The men are offered sweet Lotus from the Lotus Eaters and accept it. The Lotus makes the men want to stay and not return home. Odysseus sees this, warns the rest of his men, then tie the three men to the boat and sail away.

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Odysseus and his crew land on the island of the Cyclops and get captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus, Poseidon's son. Odysseus comes up with a plan to escape and it works until they are about to escape and Odysseus lets his pride get the best of him and tells Polyphemus his name. Odysseus and his men still escape, but the Cyclops prays to the gods to not let him return home safely.

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Odysseus and his man land on the island of Aeolus where the wind king gives him two bags, one with good winds and one with bad winds. Odysseus and his men are almost home when the crew gets greedy and thinking treasure is inside, opens the bag with bad winds which blows them off course. Aeolus refuses to help them again and at the land of the Laestrygones Odysseus loses everything except his ship with 45 men on it.

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Book 10 - Circe, the Grace of the Witch 

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Book 10 - Circe, the Grace of the Witch 

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Odysseus divides his men into two groups, one lead by Eurycholus to explore the island and the other to stay on the ship with him. Eurycholus's group go into Circe's hall where  Circe gets everyone except Eurycholus drunk and makes them not want to return home before turning them into pigs. Odysseus rushes to rescue his men after hearing the new from Eurylochus and gets help from Hermes who gives him a magical plant to protect him from Circe's magic. Circe turns his men back into humans but puts them in a trance and they all stay for a year until Odysseus begs her to let them go. She says they must first visit the land of the dead and hear a prophecy of the ghost Tiresius.

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Odysseus arrives at the of the dead where he speaks to three ghosts. The first is Elpenor who tells how he died and asks Odysseus to give him a proper burial so his soul can rest. Next is Tiresius who gives him a prophecy. Last is his mother, Anticlea, who died from a broken heart and tells him that Telemacus and Penelope are waiting for him back home. Odysseus and his crew then set sail to Aeaea.

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Tiresius's prophecy:

1. You have to travel through a narrow straight with monsters on either side

2. You have to deny yourself and restrain your shipmates (sirens)

3. On the land of Thrinacia, don't eat the cattle.. If you do all will die and you will survive alone

4. You will be away from home for years

5. You will return home under a strange sail

6. Once you return home you will fight the suitors and once you kill them all..

7. You will walk inland and implant your oar and sacrifice a bunch of animals to apologize to Poseiden

8. If you do this you will die peacefully.

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Book 12 - The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

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Book 12 - The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

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Odysseus and his men return to the island of Circe where she gives Odysseus advice on the obstacles ahead of him. Odysseus takes her advice and when he sails past the sirens he puts beeswax in his men's ears and they tie him to the mast.

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Book 12 - The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

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Book 12 - The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

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Odysseus doesn't want to tell the what else is to come because he is afraid they will get scared, instead he tries to keep their spirits up by telling them how much worse they have gone through. Next the Scylla eats six of his men but they keep rowing.

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Book 12 - The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

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Book 12 - The Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis

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Odysseus tries to convince his men not to land Thrinacia, the island of Helios, but they disobey and land anyway. Odysseus then tells them not to eat the sacred cattle, but overcome with hunger, they disobey once again and eat the cattle. This angers Helios who tells Zeus and Zeus kills all of Odysseus's men. This leaves Odysseus alone and he drifts to Ogygia, the land of Calypso. Odysseus is now finished telling his story to King Alceniuous.