The
The hero Odysseus’
return home from
the War at Troy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beginning_Odyssey.svg
Intro to
the story
 Epic
 History
 Of the poem
 Of Trojan War
 Homer
 Main Characters
 Map

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TELEMACHUS’ STORY
Telemachus (Odysseus’ son) and Penelope (Odysseus’ wife)
have waited 20 years for the king to come home
10 years at Troy
10 years at sea
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TELEMACHUS’ STORY
Suitors are invading his home
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/the-odyssey/images/the-odyssey-3.jpg
"Penelope and the Suitors." Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1912
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http://images.perseus.tufts.edu/images/1993.01.2/1993.01.0667
TELEMACHUS’ STORY
Athena helps Telemachus decide how to look for his father
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TELEMACHUS’ STORY
Telemachus takes a ship to find and talk to the war heroes who
fought with his dad at Tory.
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TELEMACHUS’ STORY
Telemachus travels to Pylos find Nestor, a war buddy of his dad.
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TELEMACHUS’ STORY
He meets Nestor in Pylos
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Really that’s Mentor, not Nestor 
TELEMACHUS’ STORY
Telemachus travels from Pylos to Sparta to meet Menealaus.
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TELEMACHUS’ STORY
Menelaus tells
Telemachus of his own
journey back from Troy.
He met Proteus off the
Egyptian island of
Pharos.
Menelaus wrestled the
shape-shifting water-god.
The hero won, and
Proteus told Menalaus
that Odysseus was a
captive of Calypso
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TELEMACHUS’
STORY
Menelaus also
tells the story of
the murder of
his brother
Agamemnon at
the hands of
Clytemnestra,
Agamemnon’s
wife and the
sister of
Menelaus’ wife,
Helen.
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ODYSSEUS’
STORY
Begins very
close to the
end:
Odysseus is
captive of
Calypso
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Odysseus and Calypso
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http://www.deviantart.com/download/112765927/Calypso_and_Odysseus_by_tenshiketsueki100
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ODYSSEUS’ STORY
Hermes persuades Calypso to release Odysseus
http://www.enotes.com/odyssey/pictures/three-8787
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Hubert_Maurer_-_Hermes_bei_Calypso_und_Odysseus.jpg
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ODYSSEUS’ STORY
Odysseus sails
off on a raft, and
is marooned in
the land of the
Phaeacians.
Their princess,
Nausicaa, shows
him hospitality
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Odysseus_And_Nausica%C3%A
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Odysseus and Nausicaa,
Christoph Amberger, 1619.
Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
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ODYSSEUS’ STORY
Odysseus is
invited to a feast,
where he hears
songs about the
Trojan War
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ODYSSEUS’ STORY
Odysseus reveals his identity (because he gets emotional)
and he tells his own story
Ulysses at the
court of Alcinous
Francesco Hayez
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
6/63/Francesco_Hayez_028.jpg
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The Trojan Horse
Trojan horse.
Istambul Museum of Archaeology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Troj_Horse.JPG
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Detail from
"The Procession
of the Trojan
Horse in Troy"
by Giovanni
Domenico Tiepolo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Theprocessionofthetrojanhorseintroybygiovannidomenicotiepolo.jpg
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The "wooden horse" from the
2004 film Troy, preserved on the
seafront at Çanakkale, Turkey.
Digital photo by Ross Burgess,
20th october 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trojan_horse_%C3%87anakkale.jpg
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Raid on Cicones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OdrysianKingdom.jpg
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The
The
Bad Storms
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Lotus-Eaters:
almost loses two men
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18th-century French engraving of Odysseus on the island of the lotus-eaters
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Lotus-eaters.png
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Polyphemos
(a Cyclops son
of Poseidon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
ki/File:Cyclops_P611008
6.JPG
http://www.greeka.com/ionian/ithaca/ithacamyths/odysseus/odysseus-cyclops.jpg
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Odysseus in the Cave of Polyphemus
Jakob Jordaens
Odysseus’
men are
trapped
in the
cyclops’
cave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jakob_Jordaens_009.jpg
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They blind the Cyclops to escape.
http://www.davidclaudon.com/odyssey/poly.jpg
http://www.freewebs.com/odysseynewman2008/polyphemus_being_blinded_by_Odysseus.bmp
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Odysseus and four of his men thrust a wooden spike into the
Cyclops' eye
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Poseidon is furious!
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Aeolus
Bag of Winds
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Men think bag is full of gold >>> blown off course
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laestrygonians_Hurling_Rocks_at_the_Fleet_of_Odysseus.jpg
Laestrygonians
• cannibals
• Loses 11 (out of his 12) ships
Late 1st century BC
Wall painting from the Odyssey
Landscapes, Musei Vaticani,
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http://medievalandrenaissancestudies.vassar.edu/images/ulysses.jpg
The Adventures of Ulysses: The Contest with the Laestrygonians
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Laestrygonians (detail) by Jordan Crane
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Laestrygonians
by Jordan Crane
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Odyssey
Laestrygonians (detail) by Jordan Crane
Laestrygonians (detail) by Jordan Crane
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Laestrygonians (detail) by Jordan Crane
Laestrygonians (detail) by Jordan Crane
The
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Laestrygonians
by Jordan Crane
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Odyssey
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Circe
•Men are
turned
to swine
http://www.maryaliceharley.com/circe.htm
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http://static.enotes.com/images/enotes/8860/OD15.JPG
Circe drugged
the men's wine
and touched
them with her
wand,
transforming
them into pigs.
http://ithaka.wikispaces.com/file/view/Circ
e_turning_men_into_swine.jpg/53694684
/Circe_turning_men_into_swine.jpg
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Circe
•Hermes gives moly
to Odysseus
Snowdrop,
perhaps the
herb moly
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m/media/4/22/70/65/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snowdrop_Galanthus_elwesii.jpg
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They stay with Circe for
a year
Circe Offering the Cup
to Odysseus,
by John William Waterhouse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circe_Offering_the_Cup_to_Odysseus.jpg
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Land of the Dead
Sacrifice
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Odysseus and his men prepared a drink offering for the spirits in a shallow pit.
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Land of the Dead:
•Tiresias >> directions home to Ithaca
•Odysseus’ mom >> news of the suitors back home
•Agamemnon >>
Clytemnestra murdered Agamemnon
•Achilles >> lack of glory in Hades
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http://www.rbhs208.org/
mancoff/tiresias.jpg
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Sirens
The Siren,
by John William Waterhouse
(circa 1900),
Seirēnes
Σειρῆνες
Knut Ekwall
Fisherman and The Siren
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Knut_Ekwall_Fisherman_and_The_Siren.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Siren.jpg
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Sirens
Seirēnes
Σειρῆνες
http://www.davidclaudon.com/odyssey/siren.jpg
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Ulysses and the Sirens
John William Waterhouse (1891)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_Ulysses_and_the_Sirens_(1891).jpg
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Scylla
&
Charybdis
The painting is an Italian
fresco dating to 1560 C.E.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caught_between_a
_rock_and_a_hard_place.jpg
http://loki.stockton.edu/~kinsellt/pr
ojects/ulysses/storyReader$11_fil
es/picture46.jpg
http://www.hellenica.de/Griechenland/Mythos/Bild2/Scylla.jpg
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The
http://www.freebenholt.org/scylla.jpg
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An 1840 steel engraving of the Strait of Messina by A.H.Payne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scylla_and_Charybdis.jpg
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A map of the
wanderings of
Aeneas, showing the
positions of
Charybdis and Scylla
(underlined in red),
from an edition of
The Aeneid of Virgil,
Book III, edited by
Philip Sandford,
London: Blackie &
Son. 1900
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Strait_of_Messina.jpg
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Cattle of Helios
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Cattle of Helios
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Cattle of Helios
Ignoring warnings,
the starving crew
kill and eat the
holy cattle
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Cattle of Helios
All men (except Odysseus)are drowned
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Calypso is a water-witch.
Odysseus shipwrecked on Calypso’s island
"Odysseus
und
Calypso"
by Hilmar Wild
http://www.elfw
ood.com/art/h/i/
hilmar//odysseu
s_und_calypso
web.jpg
 Hermes convinced Calypso to let him go, and now
Odysseus is reliant on the Phaeacians’ hospitality.
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"Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus" by Gerard de Lairesse, 1670
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Phaeacians transport Odysseus home to Ithaca
Athena disguises Ody as a wandering
beggar from Crete, making his way back
from Troy
Beggar: http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQpIMB_py1WoaRWkNii9HltlTk1yj1g303TMXwtLqSOwuteQW68
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Eumaeas
(a swineherd)
takes Ody in
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Telemachus returns to Ithaca
Goes to Eumaeas’ hut
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s.com/kashmir-gallery/atypical-village-hut005zoo.jpg
Ody reveals himself
They plan to kill the
suitors, together.
http://www.goddess-athena.org/Museum/Paintings/Troy/Athena_Odysseus_Telemachus.jpg
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Odysseus (still disguised as an old beggar),
Telemachus and Eumaeas
return go to Ody’s house
The suitors (led by Antinous)
• beat up Telemachus
• make fun of the old beggar
• throw a chair at the old beggar
http://static.enotes.com/images/enotes/8860/OD14.JPG
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http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/M
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Still in disguise, Odysseus talks to Penelope
and tests her faith in her missing husband
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“Odysseus and Euryclea “
by Christian Gottlob Heyne
- Project Gutenberg
eText 13725
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Euryclea_by_Christian_Gottlob_Heyne__Project_Gutenberg_eText_13725.jpg
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A house-keeper (Eurycleia) washes Ody’s
feet and sees an old scar that reveals his
true identity to her
She tries to tell Penelope that Odysseus is
home, but Athena blocks her words
Odysseus swears Eurycleia to secrecy
Feet: http://villageconnector.com/baltimorecountymd/files/cache/3733_NpAdvHover.jpg
Boar: http://www.animationbuddy.com/Animation/Animals/Pigs/Boar.gif
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The next day,
Penelope
declares to hold
an archery
competition:
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In the archery competition:
suitors must:
•string Odysseus’s bow
•fire an arrow through 12 axe heads
Bow: http://www.scottishmist.com/assets/weapons/Bow_Arrow.jpg
Arrow: http://www.animatedgif.net/arrowpointers/arrow.rt.spin_e0.gif6
Axe: http://www.manufacturer.com/cimages/product/www.alibaba.com/1222/o/Sell_Axe_Head.jpg
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None of the
suitors can string
the bow.
Odysseus tries
and is successful.
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Odysseus fires an arrow through all
the slots in the axes.
Arrow: http://www.animatedgif.net/arrowpointers/arrow.rt.spin_e0.gif6
Axe: http://www.manufacturer.com/cimages/product/www.alibaba.com/1222/o/Sell_Axe_Head.jpg
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Odysseus then turns the weapons on the men
who’ve invaded his home.
With the help of his allies, Odysseus kills all
the suitors, along with his unfaithful servants.
It’s a bloodbath!
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Odysseus and the Suitors
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http://images.perseus.tufts.
edu/images/1993.01.2/199
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hallucinatory
re-enactment
of Ulysses
slaughter of
Penelope's
suitors
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/joconde/
0002/m504104_98de1077_p.jpg
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Odysseus proves his identity to Penelope by
describing their bed (made from a living olive tree)
http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/the-odyssey/images/the-odyssey-7.jpg
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Odysseus and son visit
Ody’s dad, Laertes
Odysseus proves his
identity by describing,
in detail, an orchard
that Laertes had given
Odysseus
http://static.enotes.com/images/enotes/8860/OD16.JPG
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Odysseus (with Athena) calms the people of
Ithaca, who are upset about the deaths of so many
citizens
(Ody’s shipmates & the suitors)
Ody becomes king of his homeland once again.
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In Homer's story, Odysseus was a Greek leader who fought a terrible war (1) the
Trojans in Troy. The Greeks finally won, and after the last battle Odysseus wanted
to return home to the island of Ithaca.
(2) it was only about 500 km, the journey took him a very long time.
(3) a strong wind blew him around Crete to a big island where the one-eyed giants
called the Cyclops lived. They kept him prisoner, but after many adventures he
escaped.
(4) of terrible storms, he sailed north again, away from Ithaca, up to the island of
the goddess Circe. Circe was kind, and sent him
(5) to Hades, the land of the Dead, to get help for his journey home.
(6) there he went
(7) to Circe's island. When he left the island he went
(8) the coast past the beautiful but deadly Sirens and
(9) the dangerous waters between Cyclops island and the mainland, where two
terrible monsters lived. With great difficulty, he sailed past them, and finally he
sailed across the sea
(10) Ithaca.
His journey took him ten years - an average of 50 km a year. But all that time, his
wife Penelope was still waiting for him !
http://www.englishtap.com/library/grammar_reference/odysseus.html