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Odysseus lived in Ithaca with his beloved wife penelope. And was king of Ithaca.

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Odysseus was faced with the trojan war. The text states, "Muse, speak to me now of that resourceful man who wandered far and wide after ravenging the sacred citadel of Troy." (Homer 8).

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Odysseus tries to refuse the call by acting like he was insane by plowing a field with an ox and a donkey so that he won't have to go to war. But when a soldier uses his son to test him, Odysseus saves his son showing his love for his child.

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Odysseus' mentor is athena. Her role in the story is to guide Odysseus and watch over him. She tries to help him return to Ithaca by trying to persuade the gods and Telemachus to help him. "but my heart is torn for skillful Odysseus, ill - fated man, who has had to suffer such misfortune for so many years, a long way from friends" (Homer 10)

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Odysseus leaves the ordinary world and travels to the underworld, where he summons the spirits of the dead through sacrifice.

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Odysseus and his men take Ismara by surprise and kill most of the Ciconian men they come across, taking Ciconian women as slaves. Later Ciconian reinforcements arrive and attack the invading Achaeans, killing so many of them that Odysseus and his men are forced to flee in their ships.

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When Odysseus' men went onto the Lotus Eaters island, they were encouraged by the natives to eat the Lotus plant. This plant acted as a type of drug, making the sailors to forget about their home and their goals. Instead, the sailors wanted to stay on the island, eating more Lotus plants.

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Odysseus and his men entered the cave, where they helped themselves to the food and drink they found there, and fell asleep. when the Cyclops found Odysseus and his men in the cave, he became enraged, grabbed two of the men, smashed their heads against the rocks, ate them, and fell asleep.

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Test: Island of Aeolia (encounter with Aeolus) 

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Test: Island of Aeolia (encounter with Aeolus) 

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Odysseus and his men keep sailing and they find an island floating above the sea with a steep cliff of bronze with a palace on top of it. They have  come upon the island of Aeolia, home of Aeolus, god of wind.

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When Odysseus and his men land on the island native to the Laestrygones, the giants throw giant boulders at Odysseus's ships, sinking all but Odysseus's own ship.

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Odysseus and his men travel to Aeaea. Circe drugs a group of Odysseus’s men and turns them into pigs. When Odysseus goes to rescue them, Hermes approaches him. He tells Odysseus to eat a herb called moly to protect himself from Circe’s drug and then lunge at her when she tries to hit him with her sword. Odysseus follows Hermes’ instructions, overpowering Circe and forcing her to change his men back to their human forms.

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Odysseus resists the bewitching song of the Sirens by having his ship's crew tie him up, while they are ordered to block their own ears with beeswax to prevent themselves from hearing the song.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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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. Charybdis is an enormous whirlpool that threatens to swallow the entire ship.

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Odysseus had multiple encounters with allies along his journey like circe who gives him advice and helps him get through his journey to get back to the ordinary world.

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Odysseus's enemies are The Suitors.

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Odysseus's main ordeal is when he gets home and has to face the suitors. "You dogs, because you thought I'd not come back from Troy to my own home, you've been ravenging my house, raping women, and in your devious ways wooing my wife, while I was still alive, with no fear of the gods, who hold wide heaven, or any man who might take his revenge in days to come. And now a fatal net has caught you all." (Homer 430)

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Getting back home and reuniting with Penelope and Telemachus is Odysseus's supreme ordeal.

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After Odysseus and his men left the Island of the Cyclopes they stopped at Aeolia, the island of Aeolus the wind god. Aeolus treated Odysseus very kindly and gave him a bag of winds. The bag had all of the west winds bundled up in it and was not to be opened until they get back to Ithaca.

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Odysseus and his crew finally receive their reward.