Odyssey Summaries
Book 1: Athena, with the permision of Zues, visits Telemachus disguised as Mentes and tells Telemachus that Odysseus (his father) is alive; Telemachus gets inspire to rid Ithaca of the suitors because of Athena's words.Book 2:Telemachus talks to the suitors and tells them that they will be punished; Athena helps Telemachus organize a crew to search for his father.Book 3:gives Telemachus supplies and the aid of his son, Peisistratus.Book 4:Telemachus and Athena disguised as Mentes set sail to visit King Nestor, who tells Telemachus to go to Sparta with his son Pisistatus to see Menelaus, who might know about his father's location.Book 5:Athena helped per sway the gods to free Odysseus from Calypso; Calypso gives Odysseus supplies and Odysseus sets sail on a hand made raft that is soon ship wrecked to the island of the Phaeacians by Poseidon.Book 6: Odysseus wakes up in the presence of the princess Nausieaa where she gives Odysseus cloughs and tells him to go to the palace Arete, with out her.Book 7: As Odysseus reached the palace with the help of Athena, Odysseus begs for help to the Queen who ends up promising him a boat home tomorrow in the morning; in the evening Odysseus must explain his encounter with
Book 21:Penelope begins the contest to choose a suitor, as Telemachus and all the other suitors try and fail; Odysseus asks to try, and succeeds as he fires the arrow through the twelve axes. Book 24:Hermes leads the souls of the suitors to Hades and Odysseus reunites with his father; The parents of the suitors get very angry for the slaughter and try to kill Odysseus and his friends, except Athena makes the war stop and only kills only Halitherses, father of Antinous and then peace is restored to Ithaca. Book 17:Telemachus returns to his mother and tells her that Odysseus is on the island somewhere; Odysseus and Eumaeus start to head towards the town and Odysseus still disguised as a stranger is hit with a stool and Penelope wants to question Odysseus (still disguised) about her husband. Book 19:Penelope tells Odysseus of her husband and the hardships the suitors have brought and announces that she will choose a suitor who can string Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe handles and then Odysseus tells Penelope that he is a friend of her husband, and that he is alive; later on Eurycleia is cleaning up Odysseus and recognizes a scar on him, and she realizes he is Odysseus. Book 11:Circe tells Odysseus to attract the souls of the dead where here meets Tiresias who tells Odysseus his future; Odysseus then speaks with his dead comrades, as well as his mother. Book 8:Odysseus is still at the island of the Phaeacians where he is being entertained by a singer named Demodacus who makes Odysseus cry; later on Odysseus wins in some games and ends up telling about his Journeys. Book 10:Odysseus was given a bag of wind from Aeolis to help them back to Ithaca; on their way back the crew gets greedy and they open the bag of winds which sends them right back to Aeilis where they had to row to the island of giants and then to Circe island. Book 20:Athena appears to Odysseus and tells him that she will help him against the suitors and Odysseus receives a sign from Zeus giving courage to Odysseus; the next day Athena covers the walls and the suitors in blood, but they fail to notice. Book 13:Odysseus finishes telling his encounters and soon leaves Scheria and gets to Ithaca where he is confused by the completely different appearance of his homeland. Book 18:Armaeus, a beggar, arrives at Odysseus' palace and tries to bully Odysseus untill they get into a boxing match that Odysseus easily wins with the help of Athena; later on Odysseus encounters Eurymachus and gets hit with a stool. Book 16:Odysseus, still disguised as the stranger, sees his son Telemachus; Odysseus goes out side and when he returns he is his old self again, and Telemachus and Odysseus hug and weep. Book 22:The suitors believe it was all a mistake untill Odysseus starts to kill some of them and the suitors try unsuccessfully to fight back and are eventually killed with Athena helping Odysseus; once all the suitors are slaughtered, Eurycleia fetches the disloyal servants, who are forced to clean up the bodies and then killed, with only Phemius and Medon spared. Book 12:Circe tells Odysseus where he must travel as he will encounter the Sirens and then Charybdis and Scylla; after passing through and losing some men, Odysseus comes upon the island of Hyperion where Odysseus' crew slaughter the sun-god's golden cattle and eventually get killed by Zues and Odysseus ends up getting held captive by Calypso for many years. Book 15:Athena travels to Sparta to get Telemachus and Pisistratus and tells Telemachus to return home at once while in his dreams; so the Telemachus announces his return home and along the way he meets Theoclymenus, the sun of a famous prophet, and they journey home together.
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