Williams Odyssey

Trojan War

Nov 7, 1200

The Trojan war was a war that lasted 10 years . The war killed 188 trojans and 52 greeks which equal up to 240 deaths . The war began because the abduction of Queen Helen of Sparta by the Trojan prince Paris. After the long ten year war the greeks stood victorious .

Trojan war analysis

Nov 7, 1200

Odysseus had lost 72 men . Odysseus had gained build a huge wooden horse and leave it outside the gates of Troy, as an offering to the gods, while they pretend to give up battle and sail away. Odysseus crafted the plan that destroyed the city of Troy and ended the Trojan War.

Lotus-Eaters

Nov 12, 1200

The Lotus eaters are a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree .The Lotus eaters live in small houses .The lotus eaters would trap people by feeding them lotus witch would make them stay on the island and not want to leave it .The way that can die from is being very sleepy and drifting away to sleep forever.

lotus eater analysis

Nov 12, 1200

Odysseus had lost his men and his men memory because of the lotus eaters. Odysseus had to be dragged back to the ship and chained to the rowing-benches, or they would never have returned to their duties. The lotus eaters represents a conflict Odysseus and his men must face, the sin of slothfulness

Cyclops

Nov 14, 1200

Cyclops lives on Sicily and were cannibals. Cyclops lives up to 200-300 years of age. Even though cyclops were a cannibal it was said that he would eat a great load of wood .Cyclops would later be killed by Odysseus by a spear to his one eye

Sirens Analysis

Nov 15, 1200

The sirens are important because they would sing and to try to get men to go underwater with them and drown .The sirens sung so nice that Odysseus pled for his men to untie him and let him be with the sirens. Sirens represent the danger of the seas and the danger of temptation. The lesson to be learned from the story of Odysseus and the Sirens is a self-imposed prohibition is sometimes necessary for an agent to live out his best conception of good.

Aeolus- Bag of Wind

Nov 15, 1200

Aeolus was the king of the island of Aeolia, where he lived with his wife and six sons and six daughters .Aeolus would give Odysseus a bag of wind (except the gentle west wind. To ensure safe passage home for Odysseus and his men.Although he appears as a human in Homer, Aeolus later was described as a minor god.

Aeolus analysis

Nov 15, 1200

Odysseus gains a bag of wind . His companion would open up later . Aeolus was the divine keeper of the winds and king of the mythical, floating island of Aiolia .We also find out that Odysseus is greedy and ungrateful, along with being cursed.

cyclops analysis

Nov 15, 1200

Odysseus found out with cyclops is temptation can lead to death, being obedient can save your life, and trust your instincts .Cyclops had Odysseus imprisoned and the rest in his cave for future meals .Odysseus realizes they’ll be forever locked in the cave if he simply kills the Cyclops. Therefore he blinds it, rendering it disabled but capable of letting them out.

Circe

Nov 15, 1200

Circe was a evil witch . Also was the goddess of sorcery. Who was skilled in the magic of transmutation, illusion, and necromancy. She lived on the mythical island of Aiaia .She turned odysseus men into pigs and took Odysseus as a lover .Circe was exiled by her father Helios to live alone on Aeaea, as punishment for killing the prince of Colchis.

circe analysis

Nov 15, 1200

Circe is important in the Odyssey because she provides Odysseus with information on how to return to Ithaca. She informs him that he must travel to the underworld to consult with Tiresias and warns him of the sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis. She was able by means of drugs and incantations to change humans into wolves, lions, and swine.

sirens

Nov 15, 1200

The sirens three monstrous sea-nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song. They were formerly handmaidens of the goddess Persephone and when she was secretly abducted by Haides, Demeter gave them the bodies of birds to assist in the search. Some post-Homeric authors state that the sirens were fated to die if someone heard their singing and escaped them, and that after Odysseus passed by they therefore flung themselves into the water and perished.

scylla and charybdis analysis

Nov 16, 1200

Scylla was a horrible six-headed monster who lived on a rock on one side of a narrow strait. Charybdis was a whirlpool on the other side. They were monsters that inhabited opposite sides of a channel of water. Odysseus would rather avoid Scylla and Charybdis altogether but he cannot they stand in his way leaving him no choice but to navigate a path through them.

scylla and charybdis

Nov 16, 1200

The lesson is that to be caught between two equally unpleasant alternatives. Odysseus learns that Scylla is a six-headed sea monster that feeds on men and Odysseus learns that Charybdis is an enourmous whirlpool that can swallow his ship. So what makes him order his men to avoid Charybdis, thus forcing them to pass near Scylla, which resulted in the deaths of six of his men.

Helios’ cattle

Nov 16, 1200

Helios is the god of the sun and it was to be said to have had seven herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head. Homer describes these immortal cattle as handsome and straight-horned. Odysseus angers Helios by failing to command his men, resulting in the death of the oxen of the sun god.

Helios’ cattle analysis

Nov 17, 1200

Lampetie tells Helios that Odysseus' men have slain his cattle.Lampetie tells Helios that Odysseus' men have slain his cattle. In turn, Helios orders the gods to take vengeance on Odysseus' men. He threatens that if they do not pay him full atonement for the cattle, he will take the sun to the Underworld and shine it among the dead.

suitors/home

Nov 17, 1200

The suitors would start behaving badly by drink Odysseus wine and eating all his food. Odysseus discovered that his trials were not over upon reaching Ithaca. There he found that 108 young men, the suitors, had invaded his house. Their purpose was to put pressure on Odysseus wife Penelope to marry one of them. The suitors are described negatively as being rude, slovenly, disrespectful and ungrateful.

Suiters/Home

Nov 17, 1200

Antinous and Eurymachus The two leading suitors of 108 suitors , they differ in that Antinous is more physically aggressive while Eurymachus is a smooth talker. During Odysseus' long absence, unmarried young men start to suspect that Odysseus died in Troy or on the journey home. Under the pretense of courting Penelope, these youths, called "the suitors", take up residence in Odysseus' home and vie for her hand in marriage.