Odysseus

THE JOURNEY OF ODYSSEUS

After victory at Troy Odysseus and his men head home.They go to island of cicones and raid there for sypplies. They kill 72 men. Odysseus and his men go to the island of Lotus eaters and sends his men to search for food and has to save them because they ate the lotus flower. At the island of Cyclops, Odysses and his men find cyclops cave when the Cyclops lured them in with cheese and wine.Cyclops traped Odysseus and his men but Odysseus blinds him, then sneaks out under Cyclops' herd of sheep. At the island of the laestrygonians eat the greek and only Odysseus and his men are the only ones who survive on odysseus's ship. Circes turns Odysseus' men into a herd of swine,but Odysseus' is protected by a majical herb called moly. Odysseus ends up staying at Circs island for several years. before Odysseus leaves circe finally tells him what he needs to blind Teiresias,in the underworld. In the underworld odysseus consults the prophet Teiresias to ask how we can get home, and finds his men there, who eventually killed herself from depression. At the island of the sirens odysseys and his men pass a woman singing songs, trying to get sailors to come home. Odysseus puts earwax in the mens ears so they could not here the womans singing. Odysseus chooses to sail for scylla a six headed sea serpent rather then Charbdis a giant whirlpool .He did this because he knew if he did his whole ship would be destroyed, but if he went to scylla six men would die. A sacrifice Odysseus would have to make. At the island of Helios they stop here and Odysseus falls asleep while praying to the god athens. Once again his men go against his orders and he threatens to never rise again.As a punishment Zeus throws lightning at the ship and only odysseus survives. Odysseus finds this island by drifting in the sea. It is a island of women with a nymph named Calypso with whom he has a seven year affair with.After the seven years Hermes convinces Calypso to let odysseus to build a ship so he can go home. At the island Phaecians they acept Odysseus and he explains his ten-year journey with them. They gladly give him a ride home with their majical ship. At Ithaca Odysseus finally arrives home and sees his son Telemachus for the first time. he and his son kill all the suitors and he takes the throne with his wife Penelope.