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"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns …
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy. (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 77)
There was a ten year war between Greeks and Trojans to retrieve menelaus' wife Hellen of Troy. After the war there is a disagreement about going home. Agamemnon wanted to stay, Menelaus and Odysseus originally wanted to leave, but then Odysseus decided come back to Troy. Which was the thing that caused this whole padicament.
"The wind drove me out of Ilium on to Ismarus,
the Cicones’ stronghold. There I sacked the city,
killed the men, but as for the wives and plunder,
that rich haul we dragged away from the place—
we shared it round so no one, not on my account,
would go deprived of his fair share of spoils(Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 212)."
Cannot seem tofind a person.
When Odysseus' crew arrives here they ransack the village and kidnap their wives so the people who live there (the cicones) call for more people and kill some of Odysseuss' crew.
Any crewmen who ate the lotus, the honey-sweet fruit,
lost all desire to send a message back, much less return,
their only wish to linger there with the Lotus-eaters,
grazing on lotus, all memory of the journey home
dissolved forever. (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 214)."
Odysseuss' crew lands here afther they were hit with storms for ten days and some of the crew gets addicted to the lotus frut and they foreget about going home, so Odysseuss bassically drags them back.
“[H]ere was a piece of work by god a monster built like no mortal who ever sucked on bread no like a shaggy peak i'd say a man mountain rearing head and shoulders over the world (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 217) [.]”
Odysseus and his men arrive on the island and they run into Polyphemus, posidens cyclops son. Odysseus introduces himself as Nobody when polyphemus traps him and his men, and later on Odysseus blinds polyphemus, odysseus and his men cant immedetly escape because they are trapped in polyphemus's cave because of a boulder they cant move so they hide on the belles of polyphemus's sheep and wait for polyphemus to move the boulder.
"And then, when I begged him to send me on my way,
he denied me nothing, he went about my passage.
He gave me a sack, the skin of a full-grown ox,
binding inside the winds that howl from every quarter,
for Zeus had made that king the master of all the winds,
with power to calm them down or rouse them as he pleased.
Aeolus stowed the sack inside my holds, lashed so fast
with a burnished silver cord
not even a slight puff could slip past that knot (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 231)"
Odysseus and his men arrive to this island which is the home to the god of wind, odysseus tells him and his children stories, and they like them so much the god of helps on the jurny home by using his powers to help speed up the journy. They also gifted odysseus a bag full of wind, but odysseus's crew dosent know that its just wind.
As the crew can almost see Ithica Odysseus goes to sleep and leves the wind bag ungaurded his men opened it and it made them go all the way back to Aeolia they ask the wind god for help and the wind god responds by yelling at odysseus, telling odysseus to get off of his island, and that he is cursed.
"So I pleaded—gentle, humble appeals—
but our hosts turned silent, hushed …
and the father broke forth with an ultimatum:
‘Away from my island—fast—most cursed man alive!
It’s a crime to host a man or speed him on his way
when the blessed deathless gods despise him so.
Crawling back like this—
it proves the immortals hate you! Out—get out!’ (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 232-233)."
Snatching one of my men, he tore him up for dinner—
the other two sprang free and reached the ships.
But the king let loose a howling through the town
that brought tremendous Laestrygonians swarming up
from every side—hundreds, not like men, like Giants’
Down from the cliffs they flung great rocks a man could hardly hoist
and a ghastly shattering din rose up from all the ships—
men in their death-cries, hulls smashed to splinters—
They speared the crews like fish
and whisked them home to make their grisly meal.
But while they killed them off in the harbor depths
I pulled the sword from beside my hip and hacked away
at the ropes that moored my blue-prowed ship of war
and shouted rapid orders at my shipmates:
‘Put your backs in the oars—now row or die!’
In terror of death they ripped the swells—all as one—
and what a joy as we darted out toward open sea,
clear of those beetling cliffs … my ship alone.
But the rest went down en masse (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 234) "
Snatching one of my men, he tore him up for dinner—
the other two sprang free and reached the ships.
But the king let loose a howling through the town
that brought tremendous Laestrygonians swarming up
from every side—hundreds, not like men, like Giants’
Down from the cliffs they flung great rocks a man could hardly hoist
and a ghastly shattering din rose up from all the ships—
men in their death-cries, hulls smashed to splinters—
They speared the crews like fish
and whisked them home to make their grisly meal.
But while they killed them off in the harbor depths
I pulled the sword from beside my hip and hacked away
at the ropes that moored my blue-prowed ship of war
and shouted rapid orders at my shipmates:
‘Put your backs in the oars—now row or die!’
In terror of death they ripped the swells—all as one—
and what a joy as we darted out toward open sea,
clear of those beetling cliffs … my ship alone.
But the rest went down en masse (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 234)."
Odysseus sent three men to scout, the locals ate one of them, the others returned to the ship, and from they promptly left.
"Well, I warn you, you won’t get home yourself,
you’ll stay right there, trapped with all the rest.
But wait, I can save you, free you from that great danger.
Look, here is a potent drug. Take it to Circe’s halls—
its power alone will shield you from the fatal day.
Let me tell you of all the witch’s subtle craft …
She’ll mix you a potion, lace the brew with drugs
but she’ll be powerless to bewitch you, even so—
this magic herb I give will fight her spells (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 239)"
Cerce turns Odysseus's men into pigs except fo one of them who goes back to tell Odysseus. Odysseus goes to get them and is brefly stoped by Hermies who gives him something to resist Cerce's spells, then Odysseus goes and he helps his men. They stay there for about a year.
They spend one more day with Circe where she gives them food and drink as well as warning them about a few up comming trials.
"I told her the whole story, start to finish,
then the queenly goddess laid my course:
‘Your descent to the dead is over, true,
but listen closely to what I tell you now
and god himself will bring it back to mind.
First you will raise the island of the Sirens,
those creatures who spellbind any man alive,
whoever comes their way. Whoever draws too close,
off guard, and catches the Sirens’ voices in the air—
no sailing home for him, no wife rising to meet him,
no happy children beaming up at their father’s face.
The high, thrilling song of the Sirens will transfix him,
lolling there in their meadow, round them heaps of corpses,
rotting away, rags of skin shriveling on their bones … (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 272-273)."
Hermies asists Odysseus at this stop. Hermies is the Olympian god of herds and flocks, travellers and hospitality, roads and trade, thievery and cunning, heralds and diplomacy, language and writing, athletic contests and gymnasiums, astronomy and astrology.
"the ghost of Elpenor, my companion, came toward me.
He’d not been buried under the wide ways of earth,
not yet, we’d left his body in Circe’s house,
unwept, unburied—this other labor pressed us.
But I wept to see him now, pity touched my heart
and I called out a winged word to him there: ‘Elpenor,
how did you travel down to the world of darkness?
Faster on foot, I see, than I in my black ship.’ (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 251)."
Odysseus goes to the underworld herr he meets with Elpenor, one of Odysseus' men who died just before the crew left Circe's home. he meets warrior comrades, legendary figures, his mother, and iresias, the blind seer from Thebes. This is also where he learns that he made pociden angry with his actions agenst Polyphemus.
"First, she warns, we must steer clear of the Sirens,
their enchanting song, their meadow starred with flowers.
I alone was to hear their voices, so she said,
but you must bind me with tight chafing ropes
so I cannot move a muscle, bound to the spot,
erect at the mast-block, lashed by ropes to the mast.
And if I plead, commanding you to set me free,
then lash me faster, rope on pressing rope.’ (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 276)."
Odysseus has everyone put was in theie ears so that they dont follow the sirens, but because of his hubris he has his men completely tie him to the mast of the ship for what is bassically 'bragging rights'.
Just as an angler poised on a jutting rock
flings his treacherous bait in the offshore swell,
whips his long rod—hook sheathed in an oxhorn lure—
and whisks up little fish he flips on the beach-break,
writhing, gasping out their lives … so now they writhed,
gasping as Scylla swung them up her cliff, and there
at her cavern’s mouth she bolted them down raw—
screaming out, flinging their arms toward me,
lost in that mortal struggle …
Of all the pitiful things I’ve had to witness,
suffering, searching out the pathways of the sea,
this wrenched my heart the most. (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 279)."
There are these two monsters scylla and charybdis both of them are big and scarry. Odysseus just kind of gets by by sacraficing some of his crew and getting out of there in a barely floating raft.
"Crossing into the heartland, clear of the crew,
I rinsed my hands in a sheltered spot, a windbreak,
but soon as I’d prayed to all the gods who rule Olympus,
down on my eyes they poured a sweet, sound sleep …
as Eurylochus opened up his fatal plan to friends:
‘Listen to me, my comrades, brothers in hardship.
All ways of dying are hateful to us poor mortals,
true, but to die of hunger, starve to death—
that’s the worst of all. So up with you now,
let’s drive off the pick of Helios’ sleek herds,
slaughter them to the gods who rule the skies up there.
If we ever make it home to Ithaca, native ground,
erect at once a glorious temple to the Sungod,
line the walls with hoards of dazzling gifts!
But if the Sun, inflamed for his longhorn cattle,
means to wreck our ship and the other gods pitch in—
I’d rather die at sea, with one deep gulp of death,
than die by inches on this desolate island here!’ (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 281-282)."
Odysseus was warened to not eat the caddel on this island if he wanted safe passage home because they are the sun gods caddel, but his men ate the caddle and Odysseus was the only survivor out of this incident.
Zeus interfered with Odysseus's journy by causing it to storm afrer his crew ate the sun god's caddle.
"I drifted along nine days. On the tenth, at night,
the gods cast me up on Ogygia, Calypso’s island,
home of the dangerous nymph with glossy braids
who speaks with human voice, and she took me in,
she loved me … Why cover the same ground again?
Just yesterday, here at hall, I told you all the rest,
you and your gracious wife. It goes against my grain
to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.” (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 285)"
After all of the crazynes that occured Odysseus floted on some drift wood to this island where he basically is held captive by a nymph named Calypso for seven years.
"That was the song the famous harper sang
but great Odysseus melted into tears,
running down from his eyes to wet his cheeks …
as a woman weeps, her arms flung round her darling husband,
a man who fell in battle, fighting for town and townsmen,
trying to beat the day of doom from home and children (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 208)."
"That was the song the famous harper sang
but great Odysseus melted into tears,
running down from his eyes to wet his cheeks …
as a woman weeps, her arms flung round her darling husband,
a man who fell in battle, fighting for town and townsmen,
trying to beat the day of doom from home and children (Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 208)."
After escaping Calypso Odysseus ends up here, origonaly he wanted to keep his identity a secret, but then some people chalenge him, he couldnt let is slide so he reveled who he was and the whole story. Then the king of he Phaecians offers to assist him home.
"Living proof—
and Laertes’ knees went slack, his heart surrendered,
recognizing the strong clear signs Odysseus offered.
He threw his arms around his own dear son, fainting
as hardy great Odysseus hugged him to his heart
until he regained his breath, came back to life
and cried out, “Father Zeus—
you gods of Olympus, you still rule on high
if those suitors have truly paid in blood
for all their reckless outrage! Oh, but now
my heart quakes with fear that all the Ithacans
will come down on us in a pack, at any time,
and rush the alarm through every island town!”(Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles, Viking, 1996 page 479)."
Odysseus arrived home, kept his identity a secret for a while then his son found out and then eventually everyone found out then he slautered all of the sutors that were after his wife.