https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n The Odyssey Part 1 en-us 2020-10-28 20:58:07 UTC 2025-09-28 22:37:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f44d.png danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871437332 Athena appeals to Zeus asking him to allow Odysseus to return home. Zeus decides it's ok if he returns home. ]]> 2020-10-28 21:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871437332 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871455372 Athena tells Telemachus, Odysseus's son to go to Pylos to hear about his father. In reality the suitors have taken over his home and are planning to kill him]]> 2020-10-28 21:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871455372 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871473876 Calypso agreed but she makes a plea for him to stay. She tells Odysseus that she is much more beautiful than Penelope and she is immortal. However Odysseus still chooses to return home. ]]> 2020-10-28 21:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871473876 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871517784 Zeus sends Hermes to ask Calypso to release Odysseus. Hermes arrives and Calypso agrees to Zeus command]]> 2020-10-28 22:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871517784 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871527658 Odysseus is welcomed by King Alcinous. At a banquet in his honor Odysseus tells King Alcinous that he is Laertes son and is in favor with the gods. He begins telling him the tales of his adventure. ]]> 2020-10-28 22:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871527658 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871532780 Odysseus and his ships come upon Cyclops. He takes his best men into his cave to see what the Cyclops has to offer. The Cyclops blocks them in the cave and begins to eat his men. Odysseus and some of his men escape. However as they are leaving the Cyclops asks Poseidon to not let Odysseus see his home for a long time and he lose all of his men. Also the Cyclops asks that he return home by strange sail. ]]> 2020-10-28 22:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/871532780 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872043944 Odysseus lands on the island of the wind king. The wind king gives Odysseus two gifts, a nice westward wind back home and a bag filled with all the pleasant and stormy winds. Within sight of home Odysseus's men open the bag and the wind blows them back to the island of the wind king. The wind king does not help them this time because he believes they are cursed. ]]> 2020-10-29 03:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872043944 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872048881 Odysseus and his men land on the island of Aeaea. Odysseus sends a group of his men to explore the island. They come upon the home of Circe. Circe gives them all a magic potion. This turns them all into pigs. Odysseus, with the help of Hermes, comes to save his men. After staying for a year Circe tells them to visit the land of the dead so Odysseus can hear his prophecy.]]> 2020-10-29 03:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872048881 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872052893 Odysseus enters the land of the dead. He first talks to the ghost of one of his crewmates. He tells Odysseus that he did not get a proper burial so he cannot be at peace. He makes Odysseus promise to give him a proper burial and to plant his oar into the sand as a sign of warning to sailors.]]> 2020-10-29 03:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872052893 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872059739 Odysseus makes a sacrifice of a lamb and a ewe. He then speaks to Tiresias. Tiresias tells him that he will sail between two monsters. After he gets through it he will land on the island of Thrinacia. This is the land of Helios's cattle. If his men eat the cattle death and destruction will follow them. Odysseus then speaks to his mother.]]> 2020-10-29 03:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872059739 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872063810 Upon returning to Aeaea Circe gives Odysseus more specifics about his prophecy. She tells him about the Sirens and then 2 monsters. When Odysseus sets sail he first comes upon the Sirens. These are creatures whose songs make anyone want to jump overboard. Odysseus covers his men's ears and has them tie him to the mast. Then they come upon Scylla, a six headed monster, and Charybdis, a whirlpool monster that eats ships. ]]> 2020-10-29 03:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872063810 danerd241921 https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872076462 After sailing through the monsters they land at the island of Thrinacia. On this land are Helios's cattle. Even though Odysseus tells them not to his men eat Helios's cattle they do anyway. Zeus then sends a thunderbolt that kill all of them except Odysseus. He then drifts to the island of Calypso]]> 2020-10-29 03:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/danerd241921/x7l3hp8dhscoej9n/wish/872076462