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After-Ogygia, pre-storytelling

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Seven years with Kalypso, Penelope courted, Telémakhos visited by Athena, tells suitors to leave, Antinoos and Eurymachus say no, suspects goddess, Antinoos blames Penelope for standstill, she did the weaving trick, soothsayer says sign of eagle means they will die, they ignore it, mentor gets crew for Telemachus, he tells nurse, Eurycleia, goes to Pylos, sees sacrificing to Poseidon, Mentor gives him strength to talk to Nestor, he says he doesn’t know where he is, sends son to Sparta with him, Athena stays behind, shows appearance, Menelaus says Proteus told him Oddyseus at Kalypsos and Telémakhos leaves, suitors plan an ambush, Penelope worries, gets dream that Athena will protect him, gods make Kalypsos let Odysseus go, makes boat, almost to Scheria, poeisiedon wrecks him, Ino helps him, makes it in river, Athena makes Nausika dream of washing clothes, Oddyseus comes up, she helps him, he goes to palace, Athena shrouds him in mist, helps him, he doesn’t say who he is, the Phaeacians agree to help him, he offers Nausika as wife, next day, at feast, demodokus sings of Odysseus tale, Odysseus cries, go to games, after insulted, wins at discus, then another feast, all the men offer him presents, he asks to hear Troy song, cries, and asked to tell who he is

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Pre-Ogygia

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After war, go to land of Circonians, steal things, sent away, Poseidon sends winds that blow them to locus eaters, must drag them back to ship, go to Cyclopes, Polyphemus deal, go to Aeolia, shipmates open win, go to laestrygonians, only Odysseus’s ship escapes, go to Aeaea, Circe, turn men into pigs, Odysseus loves with her, have to leave, go to underworld, talk to Tiresias, he is being punished by Poseidon, buries elpenor, goes past sirens, goes between Scylla and Charybdis, goes to Thrinakia, Eurylocus makes him, makes them eat the calves, Zeus sends a storm, everyone dies, Odysseus floats to Ogygia.

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Ending

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Goes home overnight, sleeping, gets off, boat turns to stone, Athena meets him, tells him to go to Eumaius, disguises him, goes to swine herd, feeds him, very faithful, tells him he heard Odysseus was alive. Mentor tells Telemachus suitors plans, tell him to go to Eumaius, he accepts gifts, leaves, eagle swoops down on goose, interpreted as Odysseus coming back, leaves, takes a prisoner with him. Odysseus sees Eumaius is very good, he says he was a son of King, stolen by pirates, bought by Laertes. Telemachus returns, stops before city, sends ship on, another sign, goes to hut with Odysseus, Eumaius tells Penelope, Athena takes disguise, make a plan, go in as beggar, hide weapons, suitors find out plan didn’t work, Penelope mad at Antinoos, Eurymachus calms down Penelope with lying and false concern, Telemachus goes back, tells Penelope what he learned, not the whole truth, Eumaius and Odysseus go to palace, meet mean swine herd, melanthios, suitors feed him, Antinoos insults, throws stool, Penelope invites him to chamber, he is alone with suitors and Telemachus, another beggar comes in, loses to fight, Amohimonous is nice, odyssey tells him to leave, doesn’t, Athena inspires Penelope to talk, makes them give her gifts, they do, Oddyseus tells maids to go to Penelope, melanthioss sister is mean, Eurymachus insults Odysseus,math rows stool, misses, hits servant, Telemachus stops fight, they hide weapons, saying to euryclia they are protecting them, Penelope talks to Odysseus, tells her he will return, euryclia cleans feet, notices Odysseus scar, keeps secret, Penelope had dream, she decides to pick a suitor by archery, can’t sleep well, another sign, Oddyseus and Telémakhos meet Eumaius, melanthios and another, at dinner, suitors keep getting more signs, appear bloody and gross at dinner, have archery contest, none can do it, Oddyseus reveals himself to Eumaius and other guy, shoots through axes, then shoots Antinoos, Eurymachus, and Telémakhos kills amphimdmdod, gets weapons for swine herds, melanthios gets some weapons, gets locked up, big battle, kill a lot, Athena joins, finishing battle quickly, makes Eurycleia and others clean, then hang disloyal women, then melanthios, then fumigate house, Penelope comes down in shock, lay low so no parents know what happens, Penelope wary, Odysseus makes himself know to her, he tells her what happened, him and Telémakhos go to Laertes, Penelope to be alone in room. Suitors welcomed by hades, meet Agamemnon and Achilles. Odysseus alone with Laertes pretends to be friend, but them proves himself and says he killed the suitors, they have lunch with melanthios dad, parents learn and start army, Athena makes them forget after Laertes kills Antinoos father, eupethies, peace is back. THE END

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Odysseus

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Main dude

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Sisyphus

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Guy being punished by constantly pushing a boulder up a hill in the underworld

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Tantalus

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Guy punished by not being able to eat or drink in the underworld

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Nestor

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Fought with Odysseus
Lives in Pylos
Telemakhos first stop

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Helen

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Person fought over in the war
Married to Menelaus
Lives in Sparta

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Menelaus

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Lives in Sparta
Married to Helen
Second of Telemakhos stops
Told him Odysseus was alive

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Agamemnon

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Killed by Aigisthos and his wife, Klytaimnestra

Avenged by son, Orestes

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Orestes

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Son of a Agamemnon

Killed Aigisthos and Klytaimnestra

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Aigisthos

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Didn’t go to war
Killed Agmemnon
Took Klytaimnestra as his wife
Killed by Orestes

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Klytaimnestra

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First wife of Agmemnon, then of Aigisthos
Killed Agmemnon
Killed by son, Orestes

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Paris

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Tried to steal Helen

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Telemakhos

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Son of Penelope and Odysseus

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Penelope

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Wife of Odysseus
Did not pick a suitor
Cunning

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Mentor

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Athena

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Antinoos

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Suitor
Very rude
First killed by Odysseus

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Akhaians

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Greeks

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Phaeacians

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Alkinoos and his people, where Odysseus was taken home from

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Alkinoos

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King of Phaecia

Took good care of Oddyseus

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Arête

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Wife of Alkinoos

Queen of Phaecia

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Nausikaa

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Daughter of Alkinoos and Arête
First one of Phaecians to meet Odysseus
Helped him get to the palace

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Demodokos

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Poet that sung Odysseus’s tale in Alkinoos’s hall

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Nohbdy

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Name Odysseus used to trick the cyclops, Polyphemus

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Lotus-eaters

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People that give out the lotus, a fruit that makes you wish to stay on their island forever

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Eurylokhos

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Sailor on ship that convinced Odysseus to let the crew stay on Thrinakia, and convinced the crew to eat the sacred cows

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Herakles

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Greek hero who died previously, who was given twelve tasks by Hera, and Odysseus met in the underworld

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Akhilles

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Man who died previously by being shot in the ankle, and Odysseus met him in the underworld

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Antikleia

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Mother of Odysseus who killed herself

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Eumaios

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Good swine herd who housed Odysseus when he first cane to Ithaca

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Melanthios

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Bad swineherd who sided with the suitors and was very rude

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Eurymachus

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Suitor who was believed would win Penelope’s hand
Very rude
Second killed

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Laertes

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Father of Odysseus

Killed Antinoos’s father

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Eupeithes

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Father of Antinoos

Killed by Laertes

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Alcmene

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Mother of Herakles

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Elpenor

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Man on Odysseus’s crew who was drunk and fell of a roof at Circe’s
Met Odysseus in underworld and asked to be buried

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Skheria

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Phaeacians place

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Ithaca

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Homeland of Odysseus

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Ogygia

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Kalypso’s home

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Aiaia

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Circe’s island

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Olympus

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Home of the Gods

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Troy

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Where the battle occurred

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Thrinacia

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Land of sacred cows of Helios

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Pylos

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Nestor’s homeland

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Kingdom of the dead

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Underworld

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Aiolia

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Where Aeolus lived

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Sparta

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Menelaus’s homeland

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Phaiacia

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Land of the Phaeacians

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Ino

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The deity who helped Odysseus get to the shore of Phaecia with her scarf

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Kirke

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Lives in Aiaia and kept Odysseus for a year, after turning his men into pigs

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Kalypso

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Odysseus stayed with her in Ogygia for seven years

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Polyphemus

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The Cyclopes that Odysseus was held captive by

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Sirens

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Monsters with beautiful voices and lured men in to kill them

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Helios

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Sun god/Titan

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Aiolos

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Wind god who gave Odysseus the bag of winds

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Moly

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Plant that. Hermes gave Odysseus to survive the spell of Kirke

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Charybdis

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Monster by Skylla who was a whirlpool that would suck in everything, then blow it back out

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Skylla

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Monster by Charybdis who had six heads and would pick out men from passing ships and eat them

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Argos

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Odysseus’s dog

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Proteus

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The sea god that Menelaus wrestled with

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Tiresias

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The prophet in the underworld that helped Odysseus get home

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Order of events

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Circonians
Lotus Eaters
Polyphemus
Aeolus
Laestrygonians
Circe
Tiresias
Skylla
Thrinakia
Kalypso
Phaeacians
Home
War

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