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Odysseus's ordinary world is "on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca" (Homer line 21). Odysseus, an epic hero and protagonist, lives in Ithaca with his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus.

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Odysseus's call to adventure is the Trojan War, which we learn when the Sirens sing "as from our song of Troy graybeard and rower-boy goeth more learned" (Homer line 733). Odysseus's refusal is when he pretends he's insane to try and get out of going to fight.

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Odysseus has three mentors throughout the story, Athena,  Tiresias, and Circe. We see Athena as a mentor when Odysseus says "I pondered how to hurt him worst, if but Athena granted what I prayed for" (Homer line 263). Tiresias demonstrates mentorship when Odysseus visits him in the land of the dead. Cice is shown as a mentor when "Circe informs him that in order to reach home he must journey to the land of the dead..." (Homer 576).

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Odysseus crossed the threshold when he enters the land of the dead. Odysseus travels here because Circe, the goddess enchantress, tells him " journey to the land of the dead, Hades, and consult the blind prophet Tiresias" (Homer 576).  During this episode Odysseus violates the value of death when he leaves "Elpenor, of our company.... unburied" (Homer line 578).

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From Troy, the winds take Odysseus and his men to the city of the Cicones. The men plunder the land and, and violating the greek value of hospitality, and showing much greed, they stay until the the Cicones turn on them and attack. Odysseus and his crew finally escape, "six benches were left empty in every ship" (Homer line 63).

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When Odysseus and his men arrived on the island, Odysseus demonstrates intelligence by only sending two of his men to scope it out. The people living there encouraged them to eat the plant. However, the plant was similar to a drug, causing "those who ate... never cared to report, nor return" (Homer line 97).

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Odysseus and his men find himself on an island filled with "giants, louts, without a law" (Homer line110). Demonstrating the greek value of hospitality, Odysseus and his men went to Polyphemus's cave bringing "a goatskin full of that sweet liquor" (Homer line 137). Him and his men end up enraging the Polyphemus so they can't escape the cave. Odysseus and his men stab the cyclops' eye and hide under the sheep to escape, with the help of Athena.

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Aeolus presents Odysseus with a bag containing all of the winds to guide Odysseus and his men home. However, "men open the sack, letting loose a storm that drives them back to Aeolia" (Homer 576).

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Odysseus and his men land on the island  native to the Laestrygones, the cannibals attack Odysseus's ships , sinking all the ships except for Odysseus's.

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Odysseus and his men reach Aeaea where they run into the goddess Circe. "She transforms half of the men into swine (Homer 576). But Odysseus is protected from Circe's spell due to a magic herb. Odysseus demands that Circe change his men back to human form. In this episode, Circe is violating the greek value of free will.

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Odysseus and his men set sail, "sent by the singing nymph with sunbright hair" (Homer line 533). Circe tells Odysseus he will encounter sirens, and that he is the only one allowed to listen to their song. Odysseus uses his intelligence to make ear plugs for his men so they can keep sailing past the sirens without hearing their song.

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When Odysseus and his men begin to approach Scylla and Charybdis,  Odysseus shows leadership when reassuring his men "Have we never been in danger before this.. did I not keep my nerve and use my wits to find a way out for us"(Homer 583)? Circe advised the men before they left to stay clear of Charybdis because if you sail near Scylla instead you will lose only 6 men instead of everyone. Along with Circe, "Zeus help us pull away before we founder" (Homer 583). There are two gods helping the men through this test.

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Odysseus has been held under Calypso's spell for 7 years. Zeus sends Hermes to let Odysseus go home because she wasn't respecting the value of free will. Then Calypso helps Odysseus sail off towards home.

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Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus has three allies: the "Phaeacian noblemen conduct him home by ship" (Homer 595),  "Eumaeus, his old and faithful swineherd" (Homer 596), and "Telemachus, the true son of King Odysseus... in the forefront near his father.

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"Odysseus enters his home.
he is confronted by the haughty suitor Antinous" (Homer 603). Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca to find that many suitors are attempting to court his wife, Penelope, and plotting to murder his son, Telemachus. The suitors, specifically Antinous, were violating the greek value of hospitality, and showing lots of pride.

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Before Odysseus goes to make amends with Zeus, he tells his men "the cattle here are not for our provision, or we pay dearly for it" (Homer 585). However, while Odysseus is asleep, under Zeus's power, the men violate the greek values and show greed by eating Helios's cattle.

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Odysseus uses his intelligence to use his bow while Penelope is testing the suitors to, first, take down Antinous. "Odysseus's arrow hit him under the chin and punched up to the feathers in his throat" (Homer 609). In the end, Odysseus kills all the suitors, then moves on to Penelope's test.

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After Odysseus kills the suitors, Penelope tests him by moving their bed to see if he is really Odysseus. "Who dared to move my bed" (Homer 614), Odysseus passed her test.

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Odysseus's reward is that he is finally back home in Ithaca with his son, Telemachus, and wife, Penelope. As well as "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" (Homer 616).