The Odyssey Timeline of Events
Part 1
Book
Event Description
1
1.
1-4
2.
5
6-8
Odysseus with Calypso
3.
9
Odysseus tells his story
4.
5.
6.
Aeolia – Wind King, Aeolus
Within Sight of Ithica
7.
The Laestrygonians – Gigantic Cannibals
10
8.
11
The Land of the Dead
Back to Circe
12
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
Scheria – Where it all began
Revised 12/07
Odysseus Tells His
Story to the Phaecians
Part II
Book
Event Description
13
Phaecians Return Odysseus to Ithaca
15.
Athena Advises Odysseus to become a Beggar
14
16.
15
Telemachus Returns to Ithaca
16
17.
17
18.
18
19
Beggar Taunted by Suitors
19.
20.
21.
Odysseus Broods – Athena Reassures
20
21
22.
23.
22
24.
23
The Maids Clean the Palace and Telemachus Hangs Them
25.
Revised 12/07