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The Odyssey

Odysseus’ Odyssey  Odyssey  Directions: The word “odyssey” means  means   a long series of wanderings or adventures, especially when filled with notable experiences. In the spaces below, describe what hardships Odysseus suffers from, how he overcomes each diffi difficulty, culty, and what price he must pay.

Odysseus’ hardship 1. Ismarus

Description of event Odysseus and his men start out their journey by arriving at Ismarus, the city of the Kikones. Odysseus and the crew loot the city and its women and tells them to quickly go back to the ship. The men refuse, however, and the Kikones' army arrives at the scene.

How Odysseus overcomes hardship Odysseus and his crew realizes that they are vastly outnumbered and try to quickly run away to their ships.

2. LotusEaters

 After experiencing a storm, Odysseus' ship are are to the extreme south to the island of the Lotos Eaters. These seemingly harmless race of people gives them intoxicated Lotos, causing the crewmen who ate the sweet fruit to lose all desire of going back home.

Odysseus drags them to the ship and ties them up inside.

3. Cyclops

On the next island, they stop to resupply themselves in a cave. They snatch some food, but after Odysseus tells them to stay out of curiosity of who lives there, Kyklops named Polyphemos comes in, eats two men, and traps them inside by shutting the entrance with a boulder two eat the rest for future meals.

Odysseus creates a plan to to blind Polyphemos with a fire-hardened wooden stick to allow the escape of his crew.

4. Aeolus

5. Circe

6. Land of the Dead Odysseus’ hardship

7. Sirens

8. Scylla

 A wind god, god, Aeolus gave gave Odysseus a bag of wind to get home. The bag would supply his ship with a steady wind. However,, after nine days when Ithaka is in sight, his crew However open the bag thinking that there are riches inside of it. This blows them back to Aeolus, who this time, refuses to give them a second bag because he believes that they were cursed by the gods.  

Odysseus sent all of his men as scouts to check out the halls of Kirke. Only one other person (Eurylokhos) returned and he tells Odysseus about Kirke.

Kirke tells Odysseus to go to the underworld and talk to the ghost of Tiresias, as sort of fortune teller.

Description of event

Odysseus and the crew slowly row back towards Ithaka but land it takes them six days to get to the next land, Lamos.

Price Odysseus pays Six men from each of the ships fight the  Akhaians (and die fighting) causing grief for the entire crew.

Odysseus lost the support that the intoxicated men used to give him.

Four of the crew are eaten and they are cursed after Odysseus yells out basically all of his contact information. Polyphemos tells Poseidon to take revenge on Odysseus.

They missed their opportunity to get home when they were so close to their destination.

Hermes gives Odysseus a Moly herb, an herb with properties known to counter Kirke's spells. Hermes gives Odysseus a plan of operation for Odysseus to regain his men.

Odysseus stays with Kirke for one year until one of his cr crew ew members tells him that they need to leave.

Tiresias tells Odysseus and his crew that if he kills the cattle of Helios, they will face his wrath.

Odysseus meets other famous greek heros but ran away after being overwhelmed by the overabundance of ghosts trying to speak with him.

How Odysseus overcomes hardship

Price Odysseus pays

Odysseus comes back to Circe's island to bury Elpenor and Circe tells him all the hardships that he will have to face. Odysseus leaves and they approach the island of the Sirens.

Odysseus ( as instructed by Circe) plugs his men's ears with beeswax and has his crew tie him to the mast of the ship.

The temptations to go to the sirens

 As Odysseus and his men pass the Sirens' island,

He can't do much except listen to Circe's advice and hold his course against the cli"s of Scylla.

He loses six of his men

they encounter Scylla, a 6 headed monster who when's ships pass, swallows one sailor for each head.

 

 

Charybdis is a giant whirlpool that threatens to to swallow the entire ship.

Listens to Circe and keeps his course against the cli"s of Scyllas l air.

6 men lost

9. Charybdis

10. Calypso

11. Scheria

Odysseus is stuck on the island of Ogygia. A goddess asks Odysseus to be her husband and she o"ers hum immortality. After living in tg island for 8 years, Zues and Hermes convince her to let Odysseus go.

The gods take pity and let him and force Calypso to let him go

He lost 7 to 8 years on the island

 After leaving Calypso's island and 18 days at sea, He arrives at the island of Scheria. A goddess Ino took pity that n him and gives him a magic viel to keep I'm afloat. Odysseus meets Nausicaa who was washing her clothes. She provides him with foods and invites him to her palace

 Athena makes Odysseus handsome and Nausicaa falls in love with him

Doesn't lose anything. Last stop before reaching home