i. Zeus sends a storm that drives Odysseus and men out to sea for nine days before they arrive at the Island of the Lotus Eaters…
The next stop on their journey results in Odysseus losing his crew and ship. The island, Thrinacia, is home to Helios and his cattle. Odysseus warns them to not touch or eat any of the cattle. His men were to hungry because they did not have food or supplies left so they kill, eat, and sacrifice part of the cattle. Helios is very angry greatly so he threatens to Zeus to punish Odysseus and his men or he won’t shine anymore because he is the son god. Zeus destroys Odysseus ship and killed all of his men. Odysseus is left alive because Zeus knew that he was not responsible.…
"On the second thought, I think you have enough on your hands. Have fun not dying!" Hades then flew away as a crow back to where he came from. Just then from up above Zeus heard an amazingly loud crashing sound. He looked up to see Poseidon's eyes burning into him and he walked away. Zeus climbed back up to the surface. He was alarmed at what he saw. Poseidon was angered to the point that when he stomped back to the ocean, the water began to…
Tiresias is the man that Odysseus came to Hades to speak to. Circe tells Odysseus that he must first speak to Tiresias before he can go home. The first prophecy that Tiresias makes is that Odysseus will have his journey made difficult by the god that shakes the earth because he blinded his son, the Cyclops. The god that shakes the earth, Poseidon, is the god of the sea in ancient Greek mythology. When Odysseus was in the land of the Cyclops, he blinded Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon. At first Odysseus told Polyphemus that his name was nobody, but after successfully escaping the Cyclops’ cave, Odysseus’ hubris overcame him and he told the Cyclops his real name. This proved to be a terrible mistake when Polyphemus begs his father Poseidon to revenge his blindness. The next prediction that the prophet makes is that Odysseus and his men must not harm the cattle of the sun or their ship will be destroyed and his men will be destroyed as well. This foreshadows Odysseus’ trip to the island of Helios, the god of the sun. In this adventure, Odysseus and his men arrive at the island and at first are able to curb the urge to feast upon the forbidden cattle. After many days, however Odysseus awakes to the smell of burning fat. Once he realizes what his men have done, Odysseus rushes his men to the ships and they try to escape, unsuccessfully. Zeus raises a storm and…
returned home, but not his appearance. Athena disguised him so that he could return to home…
Now that Odysseus knows what the gods are capable of he starts to pray to them. This making his life take a huge turn because he never really respected the gods, now he knows what they can do. After dedication and help from the gods, Odysseus finally reaches…
1: Athena explains to the gods that Odysseus remains trapped on Calypso's Island and needs help, and the suitors plan to murder Telemachus. Zeus agrees that it is time for Odysseus to return home, but that it will not be easy. Zeus explains, "He shall build a raft, and a hard voyage he shall have, until twenty days he shall come to land on Scheria, the rich domain of our own…
Poseidon, the divine force of oceans, tells Odysseus that he has helped him crush the Trojans. Odysseus argues that subsequently of has not refined that what he has achieved is by the help it was only himself who destroyed Troy. The divine being, Poseidon’s objective is to make Odysseus endure the worst pain. The essential indication of Poseidon's retribution is by the haze that he puts out as Odysseus is out…
him. Later though, it was told that Zeus was never tricked at all because according to…
Odysseus even after he comes back to Ithaca he still has the drive to come back to his family and take back over the Kingly…
the ruler of the sea and the God of earthquakes. After outwitting the Cyclops and…
At the start of The Odyssey, Odysseus has yet to return from the Trojan War and his son Telemachus believes that he is dead. Suitors have occupied his home during this time and are pressuring Odysseus’ wife Penelope to marry one of them. Meanwhile, Telemachus is unable to do anything without his father. Athena, disguised as an old friend of Odysseus’ named Mentor, encourages Telemachus to seek news of his father. At the end of the conversation, Telemachus is aware that he was in the presence of a god but doesn’t know what god is helping him. He plans to visit the kingdoms of some of Odysseus’ war companions in hopes of finding his father’s whereabouts. Book II opens with Telemachus calling an assembly of all of Ithaca’s men, including the suitors, and for the first time Telemachus publicly denounces the suitors and makes clear their crimes to all the men of Ithaca. However, the suitors maintain throughout the conversation they are innocent and have done no wrong.…
There after he is rescued by a cloak that was given to him from a goddess. This leaves Odysseus confused, not knowing if he has favor with the gods or not.…
Odysseus is the master of schemes but it gets to his head and thinks that he's greater than the gods in the skies he gets curse. When he make one of the gods mad and Athena asks Zeus; "Olympian Zeus, have you no care for him in your lofty heart? Did he never win your favor with sacrifices burned beside the ships on the broad plain of troy? Why, Zeus, shy so dead set against Odysseus" and Zeus replies; "what nonsense you let slip through your teeth. Now, how on earth could I forget Odysseus? Great Odysseus who exels all men in wisdom, excels in offerings too he gives the immortal gods who rule the vaulting skies? No, it's the earth-shaker, Poseidon, unappeased ." (Book 1 line 72-84). What Zeus is saying is that Odysseus isn't the man who everyone thinks he is and explains why Poseidon has put a curse on his trip back to Ithaca.…
We find out that while Odysseus has been gone many of the men have been trying to steal his wife away from him and lust for her. Odysseus has a son who is named Telemachus. He wishes to kill off the men who are trying to steal his mother and lust for her. "He could almost see his magnificent father, here ... in the mind’s eye—if only he might drop from the clouds and drive these suitors all in a rout throughout the halls and regain his pride of place and rule his own domains!"(197) Athena appears to sympathize for Odysseus's son and his situation so she appears to him in the form of one of Odysseus's fathers friend. "And down she swept from Olympus’ craggy peaks and lit on Ithaca, standing tall at Odysseus’ gates, the threshold of his court. Gripping her bronze spear, she looked for all the world like a stranger now, like Mentes, lord of the Taphians."(196) It is here that she tells his son that his father Odysseus is alive and well and being held captive. She tells Telemachus that he must get a crew together and sail out to the seas in search of information on his father. He must also kill those men who have been looting their estate and lusting for his mother. Eventually Telemachus suspects it was a God he has spoken to. This is important to the theme. Telemachus would have never known his…