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Odysseus home is Ithica.

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Odysseus did not want to participate in the war but Athena convinced him to sail to Troy and use his intelligence to defeat the Trojans.

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Athena: Athena throughout the story helps Odysseus like for example she helped disguise him as a begger. (Homer lines 116-121)
Circe: Circe helps Odysseus by tellling him how to get home and that he must go to the land of the dead first. (Homer lines 545-548)
Tiresias: In the land of the dead Tiresias warns Odysseus to leave the Sun God's cattle alone and if not all his men would be doomed. (Homer lines 640-646)

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Odysseus crossed the threshold when he went to The Land of the Dead as directed by Circe. In The Land of The Dead Oddyseuss met Tiresias and found out his destiny. (Homer lines 632-671)

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10 years after the Trojan War Odyesseus finally leaves Calypso's  island and is asked about his journey's later on by Alcinous. One event Odysseus tell Alcinous about is the Battle of Cicones. When Odysseus was sailing from Troy the wind brought him to Ismarus on the far shore a strong point on the coast of Cicones. Odysseus and his men raided that place and eventually the main force of Cicones came to fight Odysseus and his men. Odysseus ended up losing alot of his men from that fight and they ended up retreating. (Homer lines 20-69) The Greek gods involved were Calypso and Zeus as read in lines 28-33 and lines 40 and 56. The Greek value that was violated was Teamwork because Odysseus' men did not listen to him when he told them to leave the first time.

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Gods: Zeus ( Homer lines 70-74)
Greek values violated and upheld were intuition and hospitality.
As Odysseus and his men are sailing Zeus sends a storm that they are stuck in for 9 days when the storm settles they find themselves in the land of the Lotus-eaters. In the land of the Lotus-eaters the natives give Odysseus's men their intoxicating fruit. The fruit causes them to become addicted to it and lose thoughts of home and returning.

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Gods: Apollo (Homer lines 139-145) Greek value upheld: Intuition because Odysseus was able to trick the Cyclops to escape. Odyessus and his men are in the Land of Cyclops when they find a cave full of goods they decidet to raid the cave before Polythemus the cyclops of that cave would come back. Pretty soon Polythemus arrives at first Polythemus shows hospitality to Odyessus and his men but then starts to eat some of them. The only way to escape the cave is to move the rock blocking the entrence but Polythemus is the only one strong enough. Overnight Odysseus devlops a plan. While Polythemus is outside caring for his sheep Odysseus gets a hard wooden staff and when he returns Odysseus gets Polythemus drunk. Polythemus asks for Odysseus name and he replies with "Nohbody". As soon as Polythemus falls asleep from getting drunk Odysseus and his men take the red hot staff and poke the cyclops in the eye. Polythemus is wailing and his neighbors come to see whats wrong, when he is asked who hurt him Polythemus says "Nohbody tricked me." When morning arrives Odysseus and his men leave the cave. As they are leaving Odysseus says his real name and Polythemus makes a prayer to his father Poseiden and calls out for vengence on Odysseus.

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God: Aeolus (Intro)
Odysseus and his men set sail towards Aeolia where Aeolus sends Odysseus with a gift containg all the winds except the west wind. Aeolus warned Odysseus to not open the bag. But eventually Odysseus's open the sack and it lets loose a storm that takes the all the way back to Aeolia. Aeolus casts them out making them detested by the gods.

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Greek value violated: Hospitality
Odysseus and his men sail for 7 days and find themselves in the land of Laestrygonians. The Laestrygonians are a race of cannibals that ended up destroying all of Odysseus's ships except the one Odysseus was sailing in. Odysseus escaped with the men he had remaining in his crew and reach Aeaea, the island ruled by Circe.

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God: Hermes
When Odysseus and his crew reach Aeaea. Circe transforms half of the men into swine. Odysseus is protected by a magic herb given to hime by Hermes. Odysseus lunges at her and defeats her. Circe is forced to change the men back to their human forms. Odysseus ends up becoming lovers with Circe. The men and Odysseus live up with Circe for a year. After a year Odysseus's men persuade him to continue their voyage home. Circe said they first must sail to Hades to speak with Tiresias.

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God: Helios (Homer lines 710-713)
Odysseus returns to Circe's island and she shows his coarse to him. She gives advice on the conflictions and dangers he will face on his journey. Circes gives information about the Sirens. Beings who lure sailors to their destruction with their song. Odysseus gives his men beeswax to put in their ears and to protect them from the Siren's songs. Odysseus then instructs his men to tie him to the mast and tells them to ignore whatever he may say while under the spell of the Siren's song. The men kept rowing until the Sirens dropped under the sea and their singing began to fade. The men made it out alive and contiued their journey.

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God: Zeus (Homer lines 777-780)
Greek value shown: Loyalty (Homer lines 766-774) Shows how much Odysseus and his men have been through and they still have been loyal to him.
Once Odysseus and his crew have passed the Sirens’ island, they must first make it past Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla is a six-headed monster who when ships pass, eats sailors. Charybdis is an enormous whirlpool that threatens to swallow the entire ship. As instructed by Circe, Odysseus holds his course against the cliffs of Scylla’s lair. As he and his men stare at Charybdis on the other side of the corner, the heads of Scylla swoop down and eat six of Odysseus' men. Shortly after the Achaeans set sail from Thrinacia, Zeus makes up another storm, which destroys the ship and sends the entire crew to its death beneath the waves. Only Odysseus survives. The storm sweeps him all the way back to Charybdis, which he narrowly escapes for the second time. Afloat on the broken timbers of his ship, he eventually reaches Ogygia, Calypso’s island.

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Allies - The Phaecians, Telemachus, and Eumaeus

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Allies - The Phaecians, Telemachus, and Eumaeus

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Odysseus' first ally was the Phaecians. They helped Odysseus by giving him a safe return home after he told them his long journey and story. "The next day young Phaecian noblemen conduct him home by ship" (Homer). His next ally was Telemachus when he returned home. Telemachus helped him fight the suitors by Athena giving him intelligence and hiding all of the weapons except two shields, two swords, and two spears, "At that point round up all the armor, lances, gear of war left in your hall, and stow the lot away back in the vaulted storeroom" (Homer Line 1135). Odysseus' last ally is Eumaeus, Telemachus asked Eumaeus is he would help fight, Eumaeus ends up agreeing. "Aided by Athena, Odysseus, Telemachus. Eumaeus and other faithful herdsmen kill all the suitors." (Homer Line 1537)

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The Suitors are the enemies of Odysseus because while they believed Odysseus was dead they have been trying to get Penelope's hand in marriage. They were even planning to murder his son. (Homer intro of part 2)  "You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder...Youdared bid for my wife while I was still alive. Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven, contempt for what men say of you hereafter." (Homer 1438-1451)

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God: Zeus prayers are made to him by Odysseus and Helios as seen in (Homer lines 899-909) and (Homer lines 906-916)
Greek Value violated: Respect, the men did not show respect towards the gods or Odysseus by eating the cattle when told not to. "The cattle here are not for our provision, or we pay dearly for it." (Homer lines 839-840)  One day when Odysseus fell asleep his crew convinced eachother to eat the Cattle of the Sun God Helios. The sun god Helios was furious and asked Zeus and the other god's to punish Odysseus and his crew.  "O' Father Zeus and gods in bliss forever you made me sleep away this day of mischief! O cruel drowsing, in the evil hour! Here they say, and a great work they contrived.' Lampetia in her long gown meanwhile had borne swift word to the Overlord of Noon: 'They have killed your kine' And the lord Helios burst into angry speech amid the immortals." (Homer lines 899-909)

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Greek value violated: Hospitality because the suitors are univited guest and began consuming the resources of another man without permission. (Homer 1315-1318) (Homer lines
The Supreme Ordeal is when Odyssseus and Telemachus must fight the Suitors. Odysseus gets revenege by killing the suitors for their evil intentions and actions.  "You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder...Youdared bid for my wife while I was still alive. Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven, contempt for what men say of you hereafter." (Homer 1438-1451)

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After the Trojan War ended, Odysseus and his men begin their long journey back home. After leaving Troy, Odysseus and his men land on the Cicones Island. After causing many drunken fights, Odysseus has to bring his crew back to the ship. Next Odysseus and his men land on the Island of the Lotus Eaters, where the men are persuaded to eat the lotus flowers, making them forget about the journey and want to stay. The men find themselves inside the Cyclops's cave and get stuck. They finally escape by Odysseus and his men stabbing the Cyclops in his eye with a giant spear. After escaping from the Cyclops, Odysseus and his men land on the Island of Aolia. the king gives Odysseus and his men a bag of magic winds. One of the greedy men opens the bag of winds and blows the entire crew to the island of Laestrygonians. After getting away from the Laestrygonians, Odysseus lands on Circe's Island. She tells them that Odysseus must go to the Land of the Dead to find the prophet, Teiresias. Odysseus goes alone to the Land of the Dead to find the blind prophet, Teiresias, as instructed by CIrce. Teiresias tells Odysseus that he will be the only survivor.  After leaving the Land of the Dead, Odysseus goes back to Circe's Island to retrieve his men and prepare to make his way past the Sirens, which Circe warned them about. To pass the Sirens, Odysseus and his men put beeswax in their ears to keep from hearing the, Odysseus gets tired onto the front of the ship to hear what they are saying. Odysseus and his men find themselves on Helios's island, Thrinakia. The men were warned not to eat Helios's cattle, or they would be killed. While Odysseus is away, Euryclochus convinces all of the men that starving is the worst way to die, and that they should eat the cattle. After Helios found out what they did, he has Zeus destroy their boat. Odysseus ends up of Calypso's Island, where she keeps him for years and years. Even after offering him eternal life, he is miserable there because he cannot escape. Hermes is sent to help Odysseus escape, and make is way back to Ithaca. At Alcinous's Court, Odysseus tells King Alcinous of his long journey home, and all of the troubles he has gone through.  After 10 years at war and 10 years getting home, Odysseus makes his way back to Ithaca where he is reunited with his wife, Penelope, and his son, Telemachus. Odysseus then discovers the Suitors had been trying to marry his wife and take over. Odysseus then fights the suitors and kills them. Odyssus and his family then live happily ever after the end. (Homer lines 1-1626)

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The reward is Odysseus returing home because that has what the entire poem or story has been based on.

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Odysseus is an epic hero for his role as King of his home Ithica,his participation in the war, and his journey home. Odysseus has shown great adversity, intelligence, physical strength, and bravery. Throughout the story you can see that Odysseus has show his ability to think himself out of tough situations time and time again. For example intelligence is shown when Odysseus outwits the Polythemus in the Cyclops episode by calling himself nobody and making up his plan. "Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbody's ruined me!" (Homer lines 561-562) this caused Polythemus neighbors to believe there was nothing wrong and Odysseus and his men got away safely. Physical Strength is shown when Odyssus kills the Suitors and takes back his kingdom "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 1535-1543) Bravery is shown when Odysseus overcomes his fears and goes to the underworld to meet Tiresias. "With rustiling cries; and I grew sick with fear. But presently I gave command to my officers to flay those sheep the bronze cut down, and make burnt offerings of flesh to the gods below." (Homer lines 570-576)