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1200 BCE
Book 1
Zeus talks with Athena about Odysseus' faith -
1200 BCE
Book 1
Athena transforms into Mentes -
1200 BCE
Book 1
Telemachos invites Mentes/Athena into his feast -
1200 BCE
Book 1
telemachus and mentes talk about his father and if he is alive or not -
1200 BCE
Book 1
Mentes and Telemachus talk about going to search and get rid of the suitors -
1199 BCE
Book 2
Telemachus arranges an assembly with suitors and men of Ithaca. -
1199 BCE
Book 2
Suitors started to disagree on what Telemachus had to say and got angry -
1198 BCE
Book 2
Mentor the old man agrees to help Telemachus on his journey and go on a search. -
1197 BCE
Book 3
Nestor Talks to Telemachus and says what he remembers from his father in the battle of troy -
1196 BCE
Book 3
Mentor Tells Telemachus to speak to Nestor -
1196 BCE
Book 3
Nestor tells telemachus about the past -
1195 BCE
Book 4
Telemachus and one of Nestor's son finally come to Sparta. -
1195 BCE
Book 4
Telemachus Talks to the king of Sparta Menelaus -
1195 BCE
Book 4
Menelaus asks the two men that they look like k=sons of wise kings and Telemachus and Nestor's son explain saying who they are and why they are there. -
1194 BCE
Book 5
Hermes comes down to convince Calypso to let Odysseus -
1194 BCE
Book 5
Hermes warns Calypso or else she will be punished by Zeus. Calypso lets Odysseus go and helps him build a raft -
1194 BCE
Book 5
Poseidon destroys Odysseus' raft and then Odysseus receives help from Athena in a form of a siren. -
1194 BCE
Book 5
Odysseus washes up on the shore of Phaeacia and passes the night in a tree. -
1193 BCE
Book 6
Nausicaa agrees to help him and gives him clothes and food after he washes up and say to go to her parents who are kings of Phaeacia and they will help him. -
1193 BCE
Book 6
A small girl appears in front of Odysseus on his way to the kingdom where Nausicaa's parents appear -
1193 BCE
Book 6
Odysseus begs to Nausicaa and asks her to have pity on him and help him for he only wants to get home. -
1192 BCE
Book 7
The king and queen give offer to help and invite Odysseus to their feast -
1192 BCE
Book 7
Odysseus is tired so he says he cannot join their feast so they call it off to respect Odysseus's sleep and they give a room to rest in. -
1192 BCE
Book 7
Athena disguised as a little girl comes down and helps Odysseus to the kingdom and then Odysseus begs of the queen to help him return hom -
1191 BCE
Book 8
King Alcinous through a feast for Odysseus yet not knowing who was he nor not knowing his name -
1191 BCE
Book 8
Euryalus questioned Odysseus of his strength and his muscle work and said to try out the games but Odysseus insisted so they provoked him saying he was weak and old -
1191 BCE
Book 8
Odysseus proves him wrong and Euryalus apologizes with a sword as a gift and apology. -
1190 BCE
Book 9
Odysseus begins telling his story and how it happened. -
1190 BCE
Book 9
later on Odysseus meets a giant cyclops who is Poseidon's son. Odysseus explores his cave leading them to be trapped and then the cyclops eats 5 of is men. when Odysseus sees this he feeds the giant wine then hits his eye with a sharp spear making him lose his site. -
1190 BCE
Book 9
he tells how they landed on the island of Cicones and their their feasted on their wine and food then a man heard and an thye were ambushed by the fleat there causing them to return -
1189 BCE
Book 10
Odysseus comes upon two steal islands who are home of the king with 12 daughter and sons who were made to marry each other. -
1189 BCE
Book 10
the king gave them a wind in a bag that would push them back towards Ithaca but their men opened the bag in the middle of the night causing them to blow off course -
1189 BCE
Book 10
Odysseus and his men landed in the island of Queen Circe who was a bewitched queen who made men into pigs. Circe made his men into pigs and then when he came across her she tried the same on her but instead it didn't have power on him so he threatened her to kill her or let his men free -
1187 BCE
Book 11
Odysseus and his men land on the land of the dead, Erebus. -
1187 BCE
Book 11
Odysseus sacrifices a lamb and makes a pit and fills it with it blood making the spirits of people come upon him and waits until he sees his friends. -
1187 BCE
Book 11
Odysseus sees Achilles in the land of the dead and achilles asks if his son was a brave soldier in Troy. -
1186 BCE
Book 12
Odysseus comes upon the land of the Sirens. HIs men ty him up on a pole and they row past the island. -
1186 BCE
Book 12
Circe tells Odysseus they have to travel pass Scylla a six headed monster who will eat 6 of his men and they have to row for their lives -
1186 BCE
Book 12
After Odysseus finishes telling his story, King Alcinous says that his ship is ready for him to be sent home at last. -
1185 BCE
Book 13
Odysseus is sleeping while the men of King Alcinous take him home -
1185 BCE
Book 13
The men start bring Odysseus down from the ship and into his land and leave his goods that they brought for him as well. Soon as Odysseus wakes up he doesn't believe he's home but in another island. -
1185 BCE
Book 13
Athena comes down and tells Odysseus he is truly at home and disguises him an old man so the suitors won't know it's him. -
1184 BCE
Book 14
As Odysseus comes upon a farm some dogs start to come at him and a man hits the dog with a small rock so they stop -
1184 BCE
Book 14
Eumaeus lets Odysseus come in his house and gives him food to eat and odysseus disguised begins to tell Eumaeus that if he really works for Odysseus -
1183 BCE
Book 15
Telemachus starts heading home to Ithaca when Athena whispers something in his ear so he wakes up and tells his men to leave him in the shore so he could go around. -
1183 BCE
Book 15
Telemachus comes upon Eumaeus' house and greets him and Odysseus -
1182 BCE
Book 16
Eumaeus goes to penelope and says that his son has returned and that Odysseus is on his way -
1182 BCE
Book 16
Athena transforms Odysseus back into himself to meet his son Telemachus -
1181 BCE
Book 17
Odysseus comes upon his old dog Argos who is ill and old and when he looks at him he barks or whines and dies -
1181 BCE
Book 17
Odysseus comes in the hall and Telemachus gives him food and he says to go to each suitor and ask for more -
1180 BCE
Book 18
Another beggar by the name of Irus tells Odysseus to move out of his seat where he is sitting because its his so Odysseus says theres room for to but she threatens him. -
1180 BCE
Book 18
One of the suitors yells out to fight Odysseus since he thinks he is so strong so once Odysseus takes his robe off and shows his muscles Irus feras he will be beaten -
1180 BCE
Book 18
Odysseus wins the fight and a suitor by the Amphinomus congratulates Odysseus and he offers him fine wine and food but Odysseus tells him why be here trying to claim another mans wife if you know he will one day return and punish you all. -
1179 BCE
Book 19
Odysseus and Telemachus start to hide all the weapons and gear so the suitors won't attack him when he attacks back. -
1179 BCE
Book 19
As Odysseus is walking in disguised as the wise beggar. A maid starts yelling at him to leave so Penelope kicks the maid out and starts talking to Odysseus in disguised as the beggar from Crete -
1179 BCE
Book 19
After Odysseus finises with his talk with Penelope about where he is from. She asks her maid to bathe him but he says no need but he wishes that an old maid like him can wash his feet so she calls Eurycleia. -
1178 BCE
Book 20
As Odysseus is walking into the hall a suitor decides to throw and animal legs towards odysseus head and the suitors laughed but Telemachus threatened to kill the suitor who threw that. -
1178 BCE
Book 20
Penelope finally brings out the axes and the bow to see which suitor would win her. -
1177 BCE
Book 21
Penelope starts explaining that if they shoot an arrow through all twelve axes they will win her. -
1177 BCE
Book 21
Telemachus first demonstrates and he almost makes it but Odysseus gives him a signal not to make it and lets other try -
1177 BCE
Book 21
Odysseus then goes outside and reveals himself to his friends that he is truly Odysseus with the scar and then he goes back in the hall and fixes the bow. -
1176 BCE
Book 22
Odysseus makes the arrow into all twelve axe heads and then transforms into Odysseus and shoots Antinous in the neck killing him -
1176 BCE
Book 22
Another suitor comes up and says to odysseus why kill more people if -
1176 BCE
Book 22
Once Odysseus kills all the suitors he makes all the maids who have be disloyal to him come out and clean all the blood and bodies of the murdered. He then punishes them -
1175 BCE
Book 23
Odysseus starts to bathe himself and brings his wife Penelope out to recognize him -
1175 BCE
Book 23
Odysseus starts discussing with penelope because she does not believe he is actually Odysseus. He then starts saying how he created that bed from a tree. -
1174 BCE
Book 24
The families of the suitors wanted to get revenge on Odysseus for killing his men -
1174 BCE
Book 24
When they were heading up the mountain Laertes who was Odysseus' dad through a spear at the person in charge and killed him, but Athena stopped the battle before Odysseus could kill anyone else and reminded him of his covenant