The Odyssey has many twists and turns. The Odyssey is about a Greek warrior named Odysseus. This story begins when the Trojan war has ended. Odysseus and his men have to back home to there families. There are many obstacle on the way back home. The person responsible for all of those obstacles is Poseidon the Greek god of the ocean.
One of the obstacles Poseidon puts Odysseus ship and crew lost in the sea in a big body of fog.
Odysseus and his men finally landed on land , but the island was home of Poseidon's sons the cyclopes. The men gets trapped in the cave of the youngest of all the cyclopes Polyphemus. They escape the terrible Cyclopes by tricking him in many ways. While they were getting away in there ship Odysseus decide to gloat and Polyphemus almost destroys the ship.
While Odysseus and his men was still lost at sea the encounter a witch named
Circe. The witch offered his men some wine with honey and turned his men into animals. To rescue his men and not turn into an animal he fallowed Hermie's advise to eat the grass. After he saved his men they meet the lotus eaters. After seven years Odysseus figured out that many years have past. Odysseus decides to return to Ithica.
Odysseus was almost home , but now he is stranded in Calypso's island.
His crew are now gone because of Sila and Charybdis swallowing his ship. Odysseus was stranded in Calypso's island for one whole year. Calypso Would not let him go until Hermes forced her to with the word of Zeus. Hermes told Calypso that Zeus wants her to release Odysseus or her island will be suck to the bottom of Poseidon ocean.
Odysseus finally returns to his home Ithica And there was allot of suitor in his castle.
He didn't go to his palace right away because he know the moment the suitor know he is back they will kill him. Athena disguises him as a beggar. At the day his wife Penelope made a challenge for the suitors he reviles him self during the challenge. After he reveals himself Odysseus, his son, and his loyal servants kill all the suitors. To be sure it was Odysseus Penelope made a last test for him to find the secret of there bedroom. After the test he ordered all the maids who betrayed him to clean all the dead bodies and after they are done they are to be hanged.
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