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Odysseus ordinary world is his home Ithaca. Ithaca is where his wife and son Telemachus live. "My home is on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca" (Homer line 21).

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Odysseus call to adventure is when he enlists in the Trojan War. "The wanderer, harried for years on end, after he plundered the stronghold on the plundered height of Troy" (Homer lines 3-5). Athena helps Odysseus accept the call by telling and aiding him in the fight with the Trojans.

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Odysseus had three mentors. The first is Athena. Athena helped him throughout the entire story. she was first introduced though in the Cyclops episode where she helped him escape Polyphemus.  "And now I pondered how to hurt him worst, if but Athena granted what I prayed for" (Homer lines 263-264). His second mentor is  Teiresias. Teiresias tells Odysseus his future when he goes to the land of the dead. This then allows Odysseus to prepare for when the tests occur. "But anguish lies ahead; the god who thunders on the land prepares it" (Homer lines 633-644). His third mentor is Circe the nymph. Circe was a mentor to Odysseus when he was having to go through the test with Scylla and Charybdis. She guides Odysseus through the area without losing all of his men.

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Odysseus crosses the threshold leaving the ordinary world when he gets sent to the land of the dead, by  Circe. "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). When he talks to Tiresias he tells Odysseus of his future. "Anguish lies ahead; the god thunders who thunders on the land prepares it.... you'll find the grazing herds of helios... avoid those kine , hold fast to your intent and hard seafaring brings you all to ithaca... but if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew" (Homer lines 633-644 and 641-648). While in the land of the dead Odysseus also ut that his mother, Anticlea, is dead. He also has a conversation with his shipmate Elpenor who died when he broke his neck. Elpenor says, " Do not abandon me unwept, unburied, to temp gods' wrath.... but fire my corpse and all the gear I had and build a airn for me above the breakers" (Homer lines 602- 605). Tht line demonstrates the Greek trait of death which Odysseus violates.

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The first test that Odysseus went through was, The battle of the Cicones. This battle was when he sailed to the coastline of Cicone and destroyed and looted the town. They also took the women and enslaved them. Odysseus told them , "Back, and quickly out to sea again" (Homer lines 46-47). However his men were greedy and stole and killed more than they needed and should have. This broke the greek value of excessive greed, which gods hate. Because of this the gods punished them. The main god that did this was Zeus, he made a plan to make their trip home very hard, by letting some of the enslaved people escape. When they escaped they brought back their army. This also upholds the value of death, "Six benches were left empty in every ship"(Homer line 63).

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The second test that odysseus experiences is the Lotus Eaters. When Odysseus and his men arrived onto the island, he sent o uthree men total as ba runner, to learn who lived in the area. But when the men found out who was there they fell in with them and ate the flowers. The flowers made you forget your purpose. Again Zeus is the god that caused them to drift off of their course home. " Zeus the lord of cloud roused in the north a storm against the ships, and driving veils of squall moved down like night on land and sea" (Homer lines 70-73). The greek value shown in this episode is leadership when, " I drove them, all three wailing, to the ships, tied them down under their rowing benches, and called the rest" (Homer lines 101-104).

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The third test that Odysseus experiences is with Polyphemus the Cyclops. During this episode Odysseus shows leadership when he, "Took twelve best fighters and went ahead' (Homer lines 136-137).  He then also shows the character trait of intelligence when he refused to stea, the sheep that were in the pins. " Why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it.... Yet I refused" (Homer lines 167-168 and 171). During this episode Odysseus and his men, end up going into a cyclops cave. However, when they get into the cave the cyclops comes back and traps them inside. But using Athenas help he devises a plan to get Polyphemus drunk and when he is drunk to stab him in the eye blinding him. Athena assists him with this when after odysseus prayed for an idea she gave him one and then helped them to escape.

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The fourth test Odysseus had was on the Island of Aeolia. In this test Aeolus gives him and his crew a sack of winds that Odysseus specifically instructed them not to open until they got onto Ithaca. By them not following his directions they broke the greek value of excessive greed, "Odysseus and his men sail to Aeolia, where Aeolus, king of the winds sends odysseus on his way with a gift: a sack containing all the winds except the favorable west wind.... Odysseus men open the sack that drives them back to Aeolia"(Homer).

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The fifth test is the Laestrygonians, in this episode "a race of cannibals" come and destroy all, but one of Odysseus's ships, (Homer).

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Odysseus and his men arrive on the  island of Aeaea where Circe lives. When they arrived there she, "transforms half of the men to swine (Homer). Except for Odysseus since he was protected by a magic herb.

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Odysseus and his men sail back to Circe's island, where she gives him advice on how to conquer the Sirens, "Circe foresaw for us and shared with me, so let em tell you her forecast: then we die with our eyes open" (Homer lines 687-689). The plan was to tie Odysseus up and then put wax in the mens ears so that they can't hear the Sirens songs. Odysseus shows the value of bravery by allowing himself to possibly die if the plan doesn't work for his men. "I alone should listen to their song"(Homer lines 693-694).

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In this episode Odysseus and his men have to navigate through a giant monster that lives on the bottom of the ocean and a 6 headed dragon monster. Circe again helps Odysseus, "on how to avoid the dangers he will face"(Homer 580). He upholds the value of courage again, "I sent them on toward Scylla, I told them nothing"(Homer lines 783-784).

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Calypso has been holding Odysseus against his will for 7 years. But then Zeus and all of the gos realize what she is doing and forces her to let him go. Since she is violating the most important Greek value of hospitality. "I have been detained long by Calypso loveliest among goddesses" (Homer lines 29-30).

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In the Odyssey, Odysseus has three main allies. The first allie Odysseus has is his son Telemachus. Telemachus helps Odysseus defeat the suitors, "But with a spear throw from behind Telemachus hit him between the shoulders"(Homer lines 1497-1498). His second allie are the Phaeacians. The Phaeacians help Odysseus get home by giving him a ship to sail home with, "Phaeacian nobleman conduct him home by ship"(Homer). His third allie is Eumaeus, Eumaeus aided in fighting with the suitors as well and his old friend, "Eumaeus, his old faithful swineherd" (Homer).

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Odysseus's main enemies are the Suitors. The Suitors are the ones trying to court his wife and take over his home, Ithaca. The leader of The Suitors is Antinous, "Haughty suitor Antinous"(Homer). The suitors while also trying to steal his home have ransacked his house and devised a plan to kill his son. In order. Odysseus during his battle with The Suitors shows the greek value of courage, "While he had arrows he aimed and shot, and every shot brought down one of his huddling enemies" (Homer lines 1522-1524).

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Odysseus's ordeal is in the episode Cattle of the Sun Gods. This is his ordeal because it is the time when Odysseus is finally on his way home safe and sound but his men mess up. Odysseus told his men not to eat the cattle after Crice had warned him about Helios. But like before Odysseus's men don't listen and eat the cattle which angered Zeus. "Zeus Cronion piled a thunderhead above the ship" (Homer lines 938-939). THe crew also violates a greek value of greed by feasting on animals that don't belong to them, "Knifed the kine and flayed each carcass" (Homer lines 886-887).

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The Supreme Ordeal in the Odyssey is Odysseus's Revenge. His revenge is taking back his home and defeating the suitors. "He drew to his fist the cruel head of an arrow for Antinous" (Homer line 1412). Odysseus shows the greek value of courage and bravery because he fends off all of the suitors mainly by himself using only a bow and arrow, "he aimed and shot, and every shot brought down one his huddling enemies"(Homer lines 1523-1524). There are also two gods that help him during this episode, Athena and Zeus. Zeus helps him out by giving him the signal to start fighting and Athena helps him come up with the plan, "Aided by Athena" (Homer).

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Odysseus's road back was when he revealed his identity to his son, Telemachus, "Then, throwing his arms around this marvel of a father Telemachus began to weep"(Homer lines 1059-1060). After doing that then his son Telemachus aided him in the fight, regaining his home.

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Odysseus has a few rewards for defeating The Suitors and by pleasing the gods again. One of his rewards is just getting home. " He arrives in Ithaca after an absence of twenty years" (Homer). He then also regains his throne after killing all of the suitors, and meets his son that was born after he left for the war. He shows the greek value of honor by protecting his home and wife during the fight with the suitors.

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Odysseus is an epic hero because throughout the story he continuously shows how great of a leader he is to his crew, how courageous he is and how much intelligent he is. During the episode of The Cyclops he shows how intelligent he is when he tells Polyphemus that his name is Nohbody so that when Polyphemus yells it out no one believes he is in trouble, "My name is Nohbody:mother, father and friends, everyone call me Nohbody"(Homer lines 315-316). He also shows his leadership during this episode, when he takes him and twelve of his best fighters to look at the island, rather than just sending his crew, "I took my twelve best fighters and went ahead" (Homer lines 136-137). Furthermore he exhibits the third characteristic of courage in this episode. When he stabs Polyphemus in the eye in order for his men to escape. "Straight forward they sprinted, lifted it, and rammed it deep in his crater eye" (Homer lines 331-333). He also shows how courageous he is during the fight with the Suitors when he alone takes down over half of their army, and then with help defeats them all. "But the kingly man let fly an arrow at that instant, and the quivering feathered butt sprang to the nipple of the breast as the barb stuck in his liver"(Homer lines 1486-1488). This si all proving why he is a hero, and nit only jsut a hero an epic hero with amazing fighting skills and knowledge.