The hero Odysseus’ return home from the
War at Troyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
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Intro to the story
EpicHistory
Of the poemOf Trojan War
HomerMain CharactersMap
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TELEMACHUS’ STORYTelemachus (Odysseus’ son) and Penelope (Odysseus’ wife) have waited 20 years for the king to come home
10 years at Troy10 years at sea
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TELEMACHUS’ STORYSuitors are invading his home
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http://www.shmoop.com/media/images/large/penelope-suitors.jpg"Penelope and the Suitors." Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1912
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TELEMACHUS’ STORYAthena helps Telemachus decide how to look for his father
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TELEMACHUS’ STORYTelemachus takes a ship to find and talk to the war heroes who fought with his dad at Tory.
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TELEMACHUS’ STORYTelemachus travels to Pylos find Nestor, a war buddy of his dad.
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TELEMACHUS’ STORYHe meets Nestor in Pylos
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Really that’s Mentor, not Nestor
TELEMACHUS’ STORYTelemachus 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
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Menelaus also tells the
story of the murder of his
brother Agamemnon at the hands
of Clytemnestra
, Agamemnon’
s wife and the sister of
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ODYSSEUS’
STORY
Begins very close
to the end:
Odysseus is captive
of Calypso
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ODYSSEUS’ STORYHermes persuades Calypso to release Odysseus
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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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Odysseus and Nausicaa, Christoph Amberger, 1619. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
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Odysseus is invited to a
feast, where he hears
songs about the Trojan
War
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ODYSSEUS’ STORYOdysseus reveals his identity (because he gets emotional) and he tells his own story
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Ulysses at the court of AlcinousFrancesco Hayez
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The Trojan Horse
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Trojan horse. Istambul Museum of Archaeology
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Detail from "The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy" by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
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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.
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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
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Polyphemos (a Cyclops son of Poseidon)
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Odysseus in the Cave of PolyphemusJakob Jordaens
Odysseus’ men
are trapped
in the cyclops’
cave
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They blind the Cyclops to escape.
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Poseidon is furious!
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Bag of Winds
Men think bag is full of gold >>> blown off course
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•cannibals•Loses 11 (out of his 12) ships
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Late 1st century BCWall painting from the Odyssey Landscapes, Musei Vaticani,
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The Adventures of Ulysses: The Contest with the Laestrygonians
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The Odyssey Laestrygonians (detail) by Jordan Crane
Laestrygonians by Jordan Crane
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The Odyssey Laestrygonians (detail) by Jordan Crane
Laestrygonians (detail) by Jordan Crane
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Laestrygonians by Jordan Crane
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Circe•Men are turned to swine
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Circe drugged the men's wine
and touched them with her
wand, transforming
them into pigs.
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•Hermes gives moly to Odysseus
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Snowdrop, perhaps the herb moly
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They stay with Circe for a year
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Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus, by John William Waterhouse.
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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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SirensSeirēnesΣειρῆνες
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The Siren, by John William Waterhouse
(circa 1900),
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SeirēnesΣειρῆνες
Sirens
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Ulysses and the Sirens John William Waterhouse (1891)
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Scylla &
Charybdis
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The painting is an Italian fresco dating to 1560 C.E.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scylla_and_Charybdis.jpgAn 1840 steel engraving of the Strait of Messina by A.H.Payne
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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
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Cattle of Helios
Ignoring warnings, the starving crew
kill and eat the holy cattle
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All men (except Odysseus)are drowned
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Odysseus shipwrecked on Calypso’s island
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"Odysseus und
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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
The OdysseyPhaeacians transport Odysseus home
to Ithaca
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Eumaeas (a swineherd)
takes Ody in
Athena disguises Ody as a wandering beggar from Crete, making his way back from Troy
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Goes to Eumaeas’ hut
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Ody reveals himselfThey plan to kill
the suitors, together.
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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
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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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The OdysseyA 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
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The next day, Penelope
declares to hold an archery
competition:
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suitors must:•string Odysseus’s bow•fire an arrow through 12 axe heads
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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.
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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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hallucinatory re-enactment of Ulysses slaughter of Penelope's suitors
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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
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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 !
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