Odyssey Books 1-6
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- Book 1: Athena's Course
- Travel to Pylos to talk to King Nestor, and Sparta to talk to King Menelaus. If you learn your father is dead, “raise a mound for him,
- and burn his gear, with all the funeral honors due the man, and give your motherto another husband. (pg. 10).”
- Book 2: Telemachus' Meeting
- Book 3: Journey Begins: Kingdom of Pylos
- A young boy named Telemachus, son of King Odysseus, and his mother, Queen Penelope, both face problems running the kingdom with suitors constantly feasting at the palace in Odysseus’ absence. During a feast, Athena disguises herself as Mentes, and gives Telemachus a course to help find if his father is still alive.
- Book 4: The Trojan Horse
- Telemachus calls for an assembly, stating how he wants the suitors that have over welcomed their stay out of his home, and asks for a fast ship with a crew of twenty men on his voyage to seek news about Odysseus to Pylos and Sparta. In the meeting, Telemachus begins crying out of anger, while the suitors argue how Penelope has been deceiving the Akhaians because she said she would pick someone to marry after finishing weaving a loom for Lord Laertes, but would unweave it every night.
- Book 5: Odysseus' Escape from Calypso's Island
- When arriving at Pylos, King Nestor treats Telemachus and Mentor (Athena) with hospitality by inviting them to dine with him despite not knowing who they are at first. In this process, Telemachus gains more practice and fluency in his speech, compared to the beginning of the book where he was very nervous because he had no experience at all with people outside his country.King Nestor does not know about the whereabouts of Odysseus, but tells Telemachus about after the fall of Troy how Menelaus immediately set sail for Greece while Agamemnon stayed for a bit and was killed by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, after returning to his home.
- Book 6: Welcome to Scheria
- After visiting King Nestor, Telemachus and Mentor sails to the kingdom of Troy to talk to King Menelaus. Here, the same custom of hospitality is shown as King Nestor did where Telemachus and Mentor are brought in for a feast. King Menelaus and Queen Helen are joyed when they recognize Telemachus is Odysseus’ son. Menelaus tells the story of the Trojan horse that Odysseus thought of that allowed the Greeks to win the Trojan War, showing how he is intelligent. Menelaus also recalls his way home from Troy, where he got stranded in Egypt and had to capture Proteus, referred to as the “Old man of the Sea.” Proteus holds an insurmountable amount of knowledge, and tells Menelaus the way home back to Sparta, along with how Odysseus is currently imprisoned on the goddess Calypso’s island.
- The god messenger Hermes delivers a message from Zeus to the goddess Calypso, telling her to free Odysseus from her island while Odysseus is found crying at the shore of the island. Calypso follows Zeus’ order “send him back in haste.” (pg. 84) through giving him a good supply of water, bread, and ruby-colored wine. For a boat, Calypso tells Odysseus to cut down high timber to make the boat “broad-beamed, and decked over,” (pg. 86). Odysseus reasons that he longs for home because Penelope would die of old age, whereas Calypso is immortal, not because she is less beautiful. On the way home to Ithaca Poseidon stirs up a storm that makes Odysseus fall overboard by wrecking his boat. With Athena's aid and Ino's vail that prevents him from drowning, Odysseus washes up on Scheria.
- When Odysseus wakes up from the storm, he is terribly worn out, described as “a mountain lion, rain-drenched, wind-buffeted,” (pg. 103). As a result, Odysseus frightens Nausicaa’s maids who run away from him. However, Nausicaa, princess of Phaeacians, does not run away, and offers Odysseus a bath when she realizes Odysseus is not someone to be afraid of. During this bath, Athena makes an unusual provision for Odysseus, making him seem more handsome by being taller and massive, “with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth, but all red-golden.” (pg. 105) allowing Odysseus to receive food and shelter. On the way to meet Queen Arete, Nausicaa doesn't let Odysseus ride with her in the wagon because she doesn't want the people who she describes as “plenty are insolent.” (pg. 107) to start rumors and misconceptions that Odysseus will be her husband.
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