https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi en-us 2021-05-17 19:14:57 UTC 2026-02-01 19:47:23 UTC hello@padlet.com willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1532854936 Odysseus' ordinary world is "on the peaked sea-mark of Ithica" (Homer line 21). The epic hero and protagonist live on Ithica with his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus]]> 2021-05-17 19:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1532854936 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1540977211 Odysseus' call to adventure was going to the battle of troy "he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy" (Homer 4-5). Odysseus' refusal of call was not wanting to go to Troy to fight but Athena told him she would help him out. ]]> 2021-05-19 18:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1540977211 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1540978065 Odysseus' mentor in many conflicts like the Trojan War and The Cyclops was Athena "And now I pondered how to hurt him worst,
if but Athena granted what I prayed for. Circe, who at the beginning was going against Odysseus' was now helping him. Odysseus met Tiresias in Hades where he foretold his future "I see destruction for ship and crew. Though you survive alone, bereft of all companions, lost for years, under strange sail shall you come home, to find your own house filled with trouble: insolent men eating your livestock as they court your lady." (Homer 645) All this was to come true in the rest of the story.]]> 2021-05-19 18:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1540978065 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1540978540 Odysseus crossing the threshold is when he enters the land of the dead "could not see the long steep backward ladder, coming down, and fell that height. My neckbone, buckled under, snapped, and my spirit found this well of dark" (Homer 592)]]> 2021-05-19 18:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1540978540 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547545334 The tests starts off in Sailing to Troy with the Battle of Cicones "the main force of Cicones. This was an army, trained to fight on horseback or, where the ground required, on foot." (Homer 52). The following test was of the Lotus Eaters, the inhabitants were peaceful and only wished to eat the lotus " but those who ate this honeyed plant, the Lotus, never cared to report, nor to return: they longed to stay forever" (Homer 88). The third test was the Cyclops, son of Poseidon "The Cyclops Polyphemus returns to his cave, where Odysseus and his men are imprisoned." (Homer). Odysseus upheld the value of intelligence when he had come up with the idea of taking The Cyclops vision then hiding under his sheep to get out of the cave. ]]> 2021-05-21 13:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547545334 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547545679 Odysseus continues on his journey and arrives to Aeolia, where Aeolus, God of the winds send  him and his men along with a gift, "a sack containing all the winds except the favorable west wind" (Homer) once they are near their home Odysseus' men open the sack that causes a storm pushing them back to Aeolia where Aeolus tells them they are detested by the gods. After being cast out by Aeolus they sail for 7 days they arrive to the land of the Laestrygonians, which was a race of cannibals. They had destroyed all the ships except the one Odysseus was in, "These creatures destroy all of Odysseus’ ships except the one he is sailing in" (Homer). After his crew had been reduced greatly his remaining men sailed to Aeae, where Circe transforms half of his men into pigs  "She transforms half of the men into swine. Protected by a magic herb, Odysseus demands that Circe change his men back into human form" (Homer). Before Odysseus left the island a year later Circe informed him that in order to get home he must travel to Hades.]]> 2021-05-21 13:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547545679 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547546534 Circe had told Odysseus about the Sirens and the way to avoid them, "I carried wax along the line, and laid it thick on their ears. They tied me up" the god Helios had also helped out with giving Odysseus sunlight that softened the wax that he would place in his mens ears. Along with the wax, Odysseus ordered his men to tie him up and not let him go no matter what he said. While sailing, Odysseus and his men encounter Scylla and Charybdis "Scylla to port and on our starboard beam Charybdis, dire gorge" (Homer 780)With Scylla and Charybdis it was a lose-lose situation, Odysseus had chosen to sail closer to Scylla where he would only lose 6 men. Odysseus had been held by Calypso for 10 years under a spell "though I have been detained long by Calypso" (Homer 29)despite being with her for 10 years he had never given consent to what had happened so to him he was still loyal. ]]> 2021-05-21 13:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547546534 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547567944 After Odysseus had told the Phaeacians about his story they helped him sail home "The next day, young Phaeacian noblemen conduct him home by ship. (Homer). Another ally Odysseus had was his son Telemachus. He had helped him fight off the suitors "the great soldier give way at the door. But with a spear throw from behind Telemachus hit him between the shoulders" (Homer 1497). Along with Telemachus, Eumaeus had also helped fight off the suitors "I can arm on the run myself: I’ll give outfits to Eumaeus and this cowherd" (Homer 1509)]]> 2021-05-21 13:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547567944 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547570282 The enemy of the Odysseus were the Suitors. During the years he was gone they had tried to court his wife, Penelope. "In blood and dust
he saw that crowd all fallen, many and many slain" Odysseus had killed all the suitor starting with Antinous.]]> 2021-05-21 13:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547570282 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547578189 The Ordeal that Odysseus had encountered was the Cattle of the Sun God. He had told his men to not eat any of the cattle, while praying Odysseus had fallen asleep and when he had woken up he found his men had eaten the cattle "Come, we’ll cut out the noblest of these cattle for sacrifice to the gods who own the sky" This didn't sit well with Helios who asked for all of Odysseus' men to be punished ]]> 2021-05-21 13:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547578189 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547579950 Odysseus' supreme ordeal was fighting against the suitors "Fight, I say, let’s remember the joy of it. Swords out" (Homer 1479) Odysseus, Telemachus and Eumaeus had killed all of the suitors.]]> 2021-05-21 13:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547579950 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547590274 Odysseus' Journey Home was when he was masked as a beggar by Athena and then revealed his true identity later "No other Odysseus will ever come,
for he and I are one, the same; his bitter fortune and his wanderings are mine Twenty years gone, and I am back again on my own island" (Odysseus 1049)]]> 2021-05-21 13:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547590274 willigra0002 https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547595604 After 20 years of sailing and conflict Odysseus' reward was finally being reunited with his family  "Odysseus is reunited with his father. Athena commands that peace prevail between Odysseus and the relatives of the slain suitors. Odysseus has regained his family and his kingdom" (Homer)]]> 2021-05-21 13:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/willigra0002/5r0vwd08k8d5l8vi/wish/1547595604