the odyssey part one
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- The story begins ten years after the end of the Trojan War, the subject of the Iliad. All of the Greek heroes except Odysseus have returned home. Odysseus languishes on the remote island Ogygia with the goddess Calypso, who has fallen in love with him and refuses to let him leave. Meanwhile, a mob of suitors is devouring his estate in Ithaca and courting his wife, Penelope, in hopes of taking over his kingdom. His son, Telemachus, an infant when Odysseus left but now a young man, is helpless to stop them. He has resigned himself to the likelihood that his father is dead. With the consent of Zeus, Athena travels to Ithaca to speak with Telemachus. Assuming the form of Odysseus's old friend Mentes, Athena predicts that Odysseus is still alive and that he will soon return to Ithaca. She advises Telemachus to call together the suitors and announce their banishment from his father's estate. She then tells him that he must make a journey to Pylos and Sparta to ask for any news of his father. After this conversation, Telemachus encounters Penelope in the suitors' quarters, upset over a song that the court bard is singing. Like Homer with The Iliad, the bard sings of the sufferings experienced by the Greeks on their return from Troy, and his song makes the bereaved Penelope more miserable than she already is. To Penelope's surprise, Telemachus rebukes her. He reminds her that Odysseus isn't the only Greek to not return from Troy and that, if she doesn't like the music in the men's quarters, she should retire to her own chamber and let him look after her interests among the suitors. He then gives the suitors notice that he will hold an assembly the next day at which they will be ordered to leave his father's estate. Antinous and Eurymachus, two particularly defiant suitors, rebuke Telemachus and ask the identity of the visitor with whom he has just been speaking.
- He is probably still alive.
- Achaeans sail from the land of the Cyclops to Aeolia, where Aeolus stirs up a westerly wind to guide Odysseus and his crew home. Within ten days, they are in sight of Ithaca, but their shipmates tear open a bag containing all the winds and cause a storm that kills most of their crew. From there, they journey to Aeaea, home of the beautiful witch-goddess Circe, who turns her men into pigs and forces them to change back to human form. She also tells him how to get home; he must travel to Hades to speak with the spirit of Tiresias, a blind prophet.
- Nobody—that’s my name. Nobody— so my mother and father call me, all my friends.
- Achaeans sail from the land of the Cyclops to Aeolia, where Aeolus stirs up a westerly wind to guide Odysseus and his crew home. Within ten days, they are in sight of Ithaca, but their shipmates tear open a bag containing all the winds and cause a storm that kills most of their crew. From there, they journey to Aeaea, home of the beautiful witch-goddess Circe, who turns her men into pigs and forces them to change back to human form. She also tells him how to get home; he must travel to Hades to speak with the spirit of Tiresias, a blind prophet.
- She’ll turn us all into pigs or wolves or lionsmade to guard that palace of hers—by force, I tell you—just as the Cyclops trapped our comrades in his lairwith hotheaded Odysseus right beside them all—thanks to this man’s rashness they died too!
- And I, my mind in turmoil, how I longedto embrace my mother’s spirit, dead as she was!Three times I rushed toward her, desperate to hold her,three times she fluttered through my fingers, sifting awaylike a shadow, dissolving like a dream, and each timethe grief cut to the heart, sharper, yes, and I,I cried out to her, words winging into the darkness.
- Odysseus travels to the River of Ocean in the land of the Cimmerians to appease Poseidon. He pours libations and sacrifices as Circe earlier instructs him to do to attract the souls of the dead. He meets the spirits of various famous men and heroes and hears the stories of their lives and deaths. Odysseus meets Agamemnon, who tells him of his murder at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. He sees Heracles, King Minos, the hunter Orion, and others.He witnesses the punishment of Sisyphus, struggling eternally to push a boulder over a hill. He then sees Tantalus, agonized by hunger and thirst in a pool of water overhungry by bunches of grapes.
- Odysseus returns to Aeaea, where he buries Elpenor and spends one last night with Circe. They approach the island of the lovely Sirens, and Odysseus, as instructed by Circe, plugs his men's ears with beeswax and has them bind him to the mast of the ship. Once they have passed the Sirens' island, Odysseus and his men must navigate the straits between Scylla and Charybdis. Odysseus next comes to Thrinacia, the island of the Sun. Shortly after the Achaeans set sail from Thrinacia, Zeus kicks up another storm, which destroys the ship and sends the entire crew to its death beneath the waves.
- LET ME GO.
- We can tell you the future .
- book one "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds, many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea, fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home. But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove— the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all, the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun and the Sungod blotted out the day of their return. Launch out on his story, Muse, daughter of Zeus, start from where you will—sing for our time toobook 9 "Nobody—that’s my name. Nobody— so my mother and father call me, all my friends."book 10 "She’ll turn us all into pigs or wolves or lions made to guard that palace of hers—by force, I tell you— just as the Cyclops trapped our comrades in his lair with hotheaded Odysseus right beside them all— thanks to this man’s rashness they died too!”book 11 "And I, my mind in turmoil, how I longed to embrace my mother’s spirit, dead as she was! Three times I rushed toward her, desperate to hold her, three times she fluttered through my fingers, sifting away like a shadow, dissolving like a dream, and each time the grief cut to the heart, sharper, yes, and I, I cried out to her, words winging into the darkness.book 12 ". . . listen closely to what I tell you now and God himself will bring it back to mind. First, you will raise the island of the Sirens,those creatures who spellbind any man alive, whoever comes their way. Whoever draws too close, off guard, and catches the Sirens’ voices in the air — no sailing home for him, no wife rising to meet him, no happy children beaming up at their father’s face. The high, thrilling song of the Sirens will transfix him, lolling there in their meadow, round them heaps of corpses rotting away, rags of skin shriveling on their bones . .
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