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

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Odysseus and his men fought in the Trojan War."Ten years after the Trojan War, Odysseus departs from the goddess Calypso’s island." (Homer)
Odysseus did not want to participate in the war. Athena convinced him to sail to Troy and use him intelligence to defeat the Trojans.

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Athena made sure that Polyphemus brought in all of the sheep. "...I pondered how to hurt him worst,
if but Athena granted what I prayed for." (Homer lines 264-265)
Circe tells Odysseus were to find "...the blind prophet Tiresias." (Homer)
Tiresias warned Odysseus about not to harm the Sun Gods cattle. "...the cattle of the sun god, which Tiresias has warned Odysseus not to harm." (Homer)

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Odysseus and his men went to the land of the dead to see he blind prophet Tiresias. "...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 also sees one of his men that he did not give a proper burial to.

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Odysseus and his men went to Cicone and killed all of the men who fought and took the women as slaves. "...while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of Cicones." (Homer line 50-51) Zeus also started to punish them all.

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Odysseus and his men get to the Lotus-eaters coastline. He sends two of his men to scout out whats happening and they eat the lotus plant and forget about home. "no one taste the Lotus, or you lose your hope of home.’" ( Homer Line 104-105). Zeus was started a storm and "driving veils of squall moved down like night on land and sea." (Homer Lines 70-71).

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Odysseus' got stuck in the Cyclops's cave and it ate two of his men. He should intelligence when defeating the cyclops. "My name is Nohbdy" (Homer line 315). Athena is involved by bringing the whole herd of sheep in the Cyclops cave. Odysseus also shows excessive pride when leaving the island.

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Odysseus went to the Island of Aeolia. Aeolus gave Odysseus and his men a gift of wind and when they reached Ithaca they opened the bag and it sent them back out to sea. "...sends Odysseus on his way with a gift..." (Homer). The god in this is Aeolus.

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Odysseus and his men were attacked by the Laestrygonians and they ate his men and ship e was the only man left. "They sail for seven days and arrive in the land of the Laestrygonians,a race of cannibals" (Homer).  In this it shows that one of Odysseus's men did not have a proper burial. The gods involved in this are Circe and Hades.

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Circe took Odysseus' and his men to her island and turned half of them into swine. "Circe’s bidding against arms had slipped my mind, so I tied on my cuirass and took up two heavy spears, then made my way along to the foredeck—thinking to see her first from there, the monster of the gray rock, harboring torment for my friends." (Homer lines 785- 792). Circe is the goddess in this time.

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Circe told Odysseus about the curse he has to take which involves the Sirens. Odysseus tells his men to tie him to the mast and put wax in their ears. The Sirens start to sing and Odysseus  tells his men to untie from the mast. They then got past the sirens. "...two Sirens, noting our fast ship
off their point, made ready, and they sang..." (Homer line 717-718)

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Odysseus tried to give courage to his men. He then started to pray to Zeus for help. Odysseus told his men nothing about Scylla because if he did they would have hid. They went straight into Charybdis. A unknown man then cast his fishing line into the water and distracted Scylla. "A man surfcasting on a point of rock for bass or mackerel, whipping his long rod to drop the sinker and the bait far out, will hook a fish and rip it from the surface to  dangle wriggling through the air" (Homer Lines 815-819)

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Odysseus was held captive by Calypso for 7 years. He was loyal to his wife because he never gave consent. The reason he escaped was because of Hermes. "Calypso later told me of this exchange,
as she declared that Hermes had told her." (Homer line 920-921) Calypso was the Goddess in this.

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The Phaecians helped Odysseus get back to Ithaca. "...young Phaeacian noblemen conduct him home by ship." (Homer)
Telemachus his son helped him fight the suitors. "But with a spear throw from behind Telemachus hit him between the shoulders" (Homer)
Eumaeus also helped with fighting the suitors. "Aided by Athena, Odysseus, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and other faithful herdsmen kill all the suitors." (Homer)

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The Suitors tried to get  Odysseus' wife to marry one of them. "Pressed by the suitors to choose a husband from among them" (Homer)

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The Ordeal                         (Cattle of the Sun Gods)

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The Ordeal                         (Cattle of the Sun Gods)

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Odysseus was told not to eat the cows. He told his men not to eat them also. Odysseus went to sleep and he woke up to his men eating the cattle so Lord Helios asked Zeus to punish Odysseus and his men. "‘O Father Zeus and gods in  bliss forever, punish Odysseus’" (Homer Lines 908-909) The Greek value shown in this is

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Odysseus prayed to Apollo that he make the 12 ax handled sockets. But he then shot Antinous. HE then confessed that he was Odysseus and one of the men told him that they would pay them back for eating his food and drinks but also pay him with more cattle. Odysseus did not want that he wanted revenge. So him, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and Athena fought against the suitors. "Think of a catch that fishermen haul in to a half-moon bay in a fine-meshed net from the whitecaps of the sea: how all are poured out on the sand, in throes for the salt sea, twitching their cold lives away in Helios’ fiery air: so lay the suitors heaped on one another." (Homer lines 1535-1539)

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Odysseus was with the Phaeacian and they got him the things he needed and sent him on his way to Ithaca. "...young Phaeacian noblemen conduct him home by ship" (Homer) When he got to Ithaca Athena turned Odysseus into a beggar so that no one would notice that he was home. Antinous one of the suitors was being very hostile and not following one of the main Greek values which is hospitality.

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The reward for  Odysseus is his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. He is also reunited with his family "Odysseus is reunited with his father" (Homer) Athena also makes peace with all of the slain suitors families.