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So It starts of with the gods discussing odysseys fate and even though he won the war he go lost so Athena decides that she is going to go to ilitha disguised as a human. when she got there she was welcomed but she learned that sadly the people that odyssey left behind are getting taken advange off

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so what happen was her son tells the suitors to leave her alone and asks how they can do that to her. then they called a tease and that she is playing with there emotions then he leaves and has someone promise not to tell her till he is ten days gone.

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so this girl found the guy and at the age of 90 he was in the trojan  war. guy named agomanom the first guy wanted to sacrifice to have safe travels but the other guy was like lets not then it was good for a while then his wife wasn't loyal and they killed the other guy

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this beautiful queen recognized odysseus son told him about his father in the war and how he was stuck in a dessert then back home suitors are planting his murder

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athena went to zeus and told him what happen and he sends a messenger to tell him to let him go and even though reluctently did so he was floating around then pasidion got mad and throw some big waves

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so this pirncess bride let odyssas into her home she feed bathed and clothed athena added luster to him she told him to go to the gate to meet her mother

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so he was warmly welcome because they thought he was a god and let him sleep and eat and told him he would be on his way shorter

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they tried to impressed him then after they helped him and impress them they asked to know his name.

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Odysseus, Latin Ulixes, English Ulysses, hero of Homer's epic poem the and one of the most frequently portrayed figures in Western literature. According to Homer, Odysseus was king of Ithaca, son of Laertes and Anticleia (the daughter of Autolycus of Parnassus), and father, by his wife, Penelope, of Telemachus. (In later tradition, Odysseus was instead the son of Sisyphus and fathered sons by Circe, Calypso, and others.)

Homer portrayed Odysseus as a man of outstanding wisdom and shrewdness, eloquence, resourcefulness, courage, and endurance. In the , Odysseus appears as the man best suited to cope with crises in personal relations among the Greeks, and he plays a leading part in achieving the reconciliation between Agamemnon and Achilles. Odysseus's bravery and skill in fighting are demonstrated repeatedly, and his wiliness is shown most notably in the night expedition he undertakes with Diomedes against the Trojans.

Odysseus's wanderings and the recovery of his house and kingdom are the central theme of the Odyssey, an epic in 24 books that also relates how he accomplished the capture of Troy by means of the wooden horse. Books VI-XIII describe his wanderings between Troy and Ithaca: he first comes to the land of the Lotus-Eaters and only with difficulty rescues some of his companions from their lōtos-induced lethargy; he encounters and blinds Polyphemus the Cyclops, a son of Poseidon, escaping from his cave by clinging to the belly of a ram; he loses 11 of his 12 ships to the cannibalistic Laistrygones and reaches the island of the enchantress Circe, where he has to rescue some of his companions whom she had turned into swine. Next he visits the Land of Departed Spirits, where he speaks to the spirit of Agamemnon and learns from the Theban seer Tiresias how he can expiate Poseidon's wrath. He then encounters the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun, which his companions, despite warnings, plunder for food. He alone survives the ensuing storm and reaches the idyllic island of the nymph Calypso.

After almost nine years, Odysseus finally leaves Calypso and at last arrives in Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, have been struggling to maintain their authority during his prolonged absence. Recognized at first only by his faithful dog and a nurse, Odysseus proves his identity-with the aid of Athena -by accomplishing Penelope's test of stringing and shooting with his old bow. He then, with the help of Telemachus and two slaves, slays Penelope's suitors. Penelope still does not believe him and gives him one further test. But at last she knows it is he and accepts him as her long-lost husband and the king of Ithaca.

In the Odyssey Odysseus has many opportunities to display his talent for ruses and deceptions, but at the same time his courage, loyalty, and magnanimity are constantly attested. Classical Greek writers presented him sometimes as an unscrupulous politician, sometimes as a wise and honourable statesman. Philosophers usually admired his intelligence and wisdom. Some Roman writers (including Virgil and Statius) tended to disparage him as the destroyer of Rome's mother city, Troy; others (such as Horace and Ovid) admired him. The early Christian writers praised him as an example of the wise pilgrim. Dramatists have explored his potentialities as a man of policies, and romanticists have seen him as a Byronic adventurer. In fact, each era has reinterpreted "the man of many turns" in its own way, without destroying the archetypal figure.

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Odysseus, Latin Ulixes, English Ulysses, hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey and one of the most frequently portrayed figures in Western literature. According to Homer, Odysseus was king of Ithaca, son of Laertes and Anticleia (the daughter of Autolycus of Parnassus), and father, by his wife, Penelope, of Telemachus.

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they were going to take over towns around the troy and they went to a island called ismura they got captured by a cyclops and fooled the cyclops and then they figured out how to escape after a few

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the crewmen got greedy and curious and opened a bag which sent them back to the original island it took them 6 days and nights to get there meet some cannibal nearly escaped when they found the other island they meet a swan

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so odysseys travels to the underworld and makes offerings like Circe instructs then elpenor begs for odyssey to build a bariul mark to honor his death for his dead body

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Odysseus returns to Aeaea, where he buries Elpenor and spends one last night with Circe. ... Once they have passed the Sirens' island, Odysseus and his men must navigate the straits between Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla is a six-headed monster who, when ships pass, swallows one sailor for each head.