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Odysseus's ordinary world was "on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca"(Homer 21)

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the call to adventure is odysseouses participation in the trojan war. He did not wanna fight in the war but Athena convinced him so he " stormed that place and killed the men who fought." (Homer 44)

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Athena is the greek goddess of wisdom. Athena helped Odysseus by getting him by Polyphemus, also by getting him back home to Ithaca to see his son. " athena appears to odysseus" and " athena granted what i prayed for" (homer).

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Circe was " the goddess reveals his course to him and gives advice on how to avoid the dangers he will face" she also tells then that they should go Scylla rather than corindus.

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Teiresias was the blind prophet who told odysseus to leave the cattle of the sun god alone and also told odysseus his destiny

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crossing the threshold happened in the land of the dead. he goes to the land of the dead to "consult the blind prophet tiresias" and in this episode tireseous tells him his destiny and he also gets to see one of his dead men and his mom (which he did not know died).

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the first test in the Odyssey was battle of the Cicones. this is the test where they started winning when "the Achaeans, one by one, gave way"(Homer 64).

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The second test was the lotus eaters. in the lotus eaters there was a lotus flower that they were not supposed to eat because "those who ate this hunny plant never cared to report, nor return"(Homer 97-98).

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the 4th test was that they were gifted "a sack containing all the winds except the favorable west wind" by Aeolis and were told not to open the bag of wind. however the men didn't listen and they opened the bag of wind and got sent back which delayed their journey.

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After  "sailing for seven days and arrived in the land of Laestrygonians" (Homer). in this land the men were attacked by creatures that destroyed all the ships except the one he was sailing in. they violated the greek value of hospitality for those actions.

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once all of odysseus's men who survived left the laestrygonians they had to defeat circe. circe turned all of his men into pigs, but oddyseous defeats circe by using Hermes who "protects him with a magical herb" so that circe's spells wont get to him.

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Resisting the sirens was the next test in which odysseus got tied down to the boat and he had to resist getting into the water. Circe helped them by putting beeswax in his mens ears so that they couldn't hear there songs. " got the beeswax and laid it thick in their ears" (Homer 112-113)

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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the next test was going to be to pass Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla which is a six headed monster and Charybdis which is a whirlpool. Circe told odysseus to go closer to Scylla because it could only take out 6 men at a time rather than the whirlpool that could take out all the ships in seconds. "Scylla made her strike, whisking six of my best men"(Homer 809-810).

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The next one of his tests was escaping calypso who had captured him and kept him in a cave. he did not give consent to loving her because he wanted to stay loyal to his wife.

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His enemies are the suitors.  they are the enemy because not only are they trying to kill his son so they can rule ithaca, they are also trying to marry his wife.

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The ordeal was cattle of the sun gods. they did not follow the greek values of respecting the gods by eating his cattle. He was punished by all his men getting killed.

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the supreme ordeal was when odysseus arrived home disguised as a suitor to see all the other suitors fighting over his wife. after he strings and shoots the arrows thru the axe handles he and his alles ( Telemachus, Emmaus and Athena) kill all the suitors.

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odysseus is able to return home and brought the Phaeacians with him who guided him. at the end he finally gets to drop his act as a beggar and return to his family.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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oddyseouses reward is that he "regains his family and his kingdom" (Homer 616).

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i believe odysseus is a hero because he uses his intelligence to  survive though all the tests to get back and see his family. he "Fought only to save his life, and bring his shipmates home"(Homer 9-8). H got thru so many tests and got to end up with his family in the long run.