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Odysseus's home is "on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca" (Homer line 21). Here lives his wife and son, Penelope and Telemachus.

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Athena convinces Odysseus to use his intelligence to fight in the Trojan war. He set up a trap and "plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy" (Homer lines 4-5).

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Athena continually helps Odysseus through his entire journey. He arrived in Ithaca, but was hidden in a cave "directed by Athena, so that we might lay plans to kill our enemies" (Homer lines 1081-82).

Circe helped at the beginning of The Sirens episode and Odysseus said "an offshore breeze blew to our liking" (Homer line 679).

Teiresias warns Odysseus that "anguish lies ahead" of him and gives him advice on what to do in order for him to return home (Homer line 633).

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Odysseus crosses the threshold to the Land of the Dead to fulfill a quest given to him by Circe to "consult the blind prophet Tiresias" (Homer). Odysseus violates the value of death by leaving "Elpenor, of our company... unburied" (Homer 578-79).

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Bad weather forced Odysseus and his men onto the coast of Circones and "stormed that place and killed the men who fought... and we enslaved the women" and took their things (Homer lines 43-44). Zeus punished them for being selfish and made their sailing trips miserable with bad weather.

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Odysseus landed in the land of the Lotus-Eaters, where he lost some of his crew that were convinced to stay after eating the lotus flowers. He displayed leadership and "tied them down under their rowing benches" to outlast the affect of the lotus (Homer line 102).

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Athena answered Odysseus's prayer and gave him the opportunity to use his intelligence and blind Polyphemus and escape with his men. He "pondered how to hurt him worst, if but Athena granted what I prayed for" (Homer lines 263-64). She granted his wish and they escaped, but Odysseus breaks the Greek value of pride by telling Polyphemus his real name.

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Odysseus and his men encounter Aeolus on his land and he gives them "a sack containing all the winds except the favorable west wind" (Homer). On the journey home, his men open the sack without telling Odysseus and it blew them to the land of the Laestrygonians.

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After being blown to the island, the Laestrygonians violate the Greek value of hospitality and "destroy all of Odysseus' ships except for the one he is sailing in" (Homer).

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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After leaving the land of the Laestrygonians, Odysseus and his men arrive in "the island ruled by by the sorceress-goddess Circe" and she transforms his men into pigs until he goes to the Land of the Dead (Homer).

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Odysseus's self control and leadership was shown in the Sirens. He told his shipmates that they are going to die but they have to obey what they are told.

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Circe gave him advice in navigating through the sea and they "rowed into the strait-Scylla" instead of going towards Charybdis, as that would have no chance of survival. (Homer line 796). He puts his leadership to the test and says "this... too shall be something that we remember", in hopes of raising his men's spirits (Homer lines 771-72).

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Odysseus was "detained long by Calypso." for 7 years but she was forced to let him go (Homer lines 29-30).

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Telemachus obeyed his father's instructions to "round up all armor, lances, gear of war.. and stow the lot away" in preparation of fighting the suitors. (Homer lines 1136-37).

Odysseus says "the Phaeacians, gave me passage" and "brought me their cutter" to help him get to Ithaca (Homer line 1074).

Odysseus when he returns to Ithaca and goes "to the hut of Eumaeus, his old and faithful swineherd" to hide and greet his son (Homer).

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The suitors have been trying to marry Penelope and kill Telemachus in hopes of ruling Ithaca. disrespected Odysseus's home and Antinous "threw a stool, and banged his shoulder", which blatantly violates the Greek value of hospitality (Homer).

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Odysseus and his men disobeyed wishes to not eat Helios' cattle and then set sail and a "crack of thunder, Zeus let fly a bolt against the ship... and all men were flung into the sea" (Homer lines 948-51).  Odysseus used his intelligence to build a raft but he was heading in the direction of Charybdis. He used "branches and their leaves... overshadowing Charybdis" to hang over the whirlpool (Homer lines 974-75).

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Odysseus participates and succeeds in a challenge Penelope proposes to the suitors for her hand in marriage. He kills all the suitors "aided by Athena, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and other faithful herdsman" (Homer).

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Odysseus joins the suitors disguised as a beggar, completes the challenge, then reveals his identity. He decides to kill Antinous first and his "arrow hit him under the chin and... down he went" (Homer lines 1419-21).

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After killing all the suitors with some help, he "regained his family and his kingdom" after many years (Homer).

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Odysseus continually shows intelligence, selflessness, and leaderships through all the tests and challenges he has been put through.

In the Cyclops episode, he uses intelligence and fools Polyphemus by saying “My name is Nohbdy: mother, father, and friends, everyone calls me Nohbdy” (Homer 315-16). This causes Polyphemus's neighbors to think he's crazy when he shouting that "Nohbdy has ruined me". Later in the story, he uses his intelligence once again to disguised his identity to fool his enemies. When approaching the suitors, they thought“a poor man came, a wanderer, driven by want to beg his bread” (Homer 1275-76) but later revealed himself and killed all his intruders.

When Odysseus and his men were heading towards Scylla and Charybdis, he says to his men “ ‘Friends, 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 765-70) to try and be a leader and put his men in a better mood.

At the very beginning of the story, "he only fought only to save his life, to bring his shipmates home” and this showed selflessness because he chose to fight for his shipmates' lives continuously (Homer 8-9).