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What Odysseus would consider his ordinary world is Ithaca, " My home is on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca." ( Homer 21).

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Odysseus refused to participate in the Trojan war but Athena was able to change his mind. "What of my sailing then, from Troy? what if those years of rough adventure, weather under Zeus?" ( Homer 40).

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Athena god of wisdom and war
Circe sorceress-godess
Teiresias the blind prophet

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" Detained long by Calypso, lovelist among goddesses..." (Homer 30). Odysseus upheld the greek value of loyalty. Odysseus was finally able to sail home away from Troy.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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" I made shore, buoyed up by the gods, upon Ogygia Isle. The dangerous nymph Calypso lives and sings there..." (Homer 990).

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"Now Zeus the lord of cloud roused in the north a storm against the ships..." (Homer 70). Odysseus upheld the greek values Ingenuity and loyalty.  After the storm and some sailing they ended up at the lotus eaters island who tricked some men into eating flowers that made the lose all hope in returning home. Odysseus was fast thinking and got his men out safely.

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"And now I pondered ho to hurt him worst, if but Athena granted what I prayed for." (Homer 264). Odysseus upheld the value of teamwork but violated the value of being to prideful. Odysseus and his strongest men get trapped in a cyclops's cave. He prays to Athena who gives him an idea and opportunity to escape.

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" Where Aeolus, king of the winds, sends Odysseus on his way with a gift: a sack containing all the wind except the favorable west wind." (Homer). Odysseus and his men arrive at Aeolia where they are gifted with a bag of wind from Aeolus. They were told to sail and not open the bag but didn't listen and ended up where they started.

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After being sent back out by Aeolus because of disobeying his orders Odysseus and his men arrive at Laestrygonians where a race of cannibals live and destroy all of Odysseus ships except his.

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Escaped from the cannibals Odysseus and the last of his men go to Aeaea which is ruled by a goddess called Crice. She turns his men into swine. Odysseus is spared because of a magic herb he had. She tells him in order to get home he had to go to the underworld to meet Tiresias who is a prophet.

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" As Crice spoke, Dawn mounted her golden throne, and on the first rays Circe left me, taking her way like great goddess up the island." (Homer 675). After Odysseus left a year ago he returns to Circe's island who tells him how to survive the rest of his journey.

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Odysseus didn't pass or fail this test it was  impossible from the start  to get out of without losing some of his men and impossible to not just do exactly he was told to do.

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The Phaecians
Telemachus his son
Eumaeus

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the suitors
Athena desires war as much as Odysseus does against the suitors

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Helios role is the fierce sun god where messing with his cattle will get them a horrible punishment without light.  " Fierce the god is who cherishes these these heifers and these sheep: Helios; and no man avoids his eye." (Homer 841). Odysseus warned his men. not to eat Helios cattle or there would be great punishment by disobeying and breaking the greek value of respect they were punished in the middle of the sea. " Zeus who drives the3 storm clouds reply: Peace, Helios: shine on among the gods, shien over mortals in the fields of grain. Let me throw down one white-hot bolt, and make splinter of their ship in the wine dark sea." (Homer 915).

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Apollo lent Odysseus his skills when Odysseus prayed to him that he not  miss this shot. " Now watch me hit a target that no man has hit before, if I can make this shot. Help me, Apollo." (Homer 1410). The greek values of respect and hospitality were being violated by the suitors by wanting to kill the owner ( Odysseus) of the house they were in and the have been disrespecting it for years. " Foul! to shoot at a man! That was your last shot! your own throat will be slit for this!" (Homer 1432).

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" Ten years after the Trojan War, Odysseus departs from the goddess Calypso's island. He arrives in Phaeacia, ruled by Alcinous. Alcinous offers a ship to Odysseus and asks him to tell him of his adventures." (Homer).

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"Odysseus has regained his family and his kingdom."

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Odysseus is consider a hero because he is a strong leader. He exploits the greek value of intuition in any situation. A good example is when the cyclops was trying to destroy his ship. "He Thought he'd find out, but I saw through this, And answered with a ready lie: 'My ship? Poseidon Lord, who set the earth a tremble, broke it up on the rocks at your land's end. A wind from seward served him, drove us there. We are survivors, these good men and I." ( Homer 230). He is a fast worker, he never leaves a man behind and he always put others he cares about before himself. " Three abreast I tied them silently together, twinning cords of willow from the ogres bed; then slung a man under each middle one to ride there safely, shielded left and right." (Homer 380). He was always stayed loyal to his wife, home and friends. He also had good hospitality and respect. " You see, then, he is alive and well, and headed homeward now, no more to be aboard far from his island, his dear wife and son. Here is my sworn word for it. Witness this, god of the senith, noblest of the gods, I swear these things shall turn out as I say. Between this present dark and one day's ebb, after the wane, before the crescent moon, Odysseus will come." (Homer 1350).