Book One:
“Sing to me of the man, muse the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the lights of Troy.” The Odyssey begins with inspiration from the muse singing through him. The Odyssey specifies its subject as the Iliad. The first couple of lines shows how the story will end. With all men dead except Odysseus, and reasons for his death, the recklessness and blindness from his crew. This soon bean to be a famous explorer. He did a 10 year journey with a consent of Zeus, goes to Ithaca to talk to Telemachus. Thinking about the form of Odysseus’s old friend Mentes, Athena guesses that Odysseus is still alive and he’ll soon return to Ithaca. She soon suggested Telemachus to call together