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Odyssey

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE CICONES

  • Odysseus raids a city and Circe attacks.
  • They lost 6 men but they escaped.
  • Zeus creates a storm for 9 days.

LOTUS EATERS

  • A few of Odysseus's men eat the lotus plant.
  • Odysseus saves his men

CYCLOPS

  • Polyphemus, Poseidon's one eyed son captures...
  • Odysseus and his crew and curses them.
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ISLAND OF AEOLUS

  • Aeolus, god of winds, gives Odysseus a bag of bad winds...
  • To help him get home safely. His crew disobeys orders and...
  • Opens the bag.

LAESTRYGONIANS

  • Gigantic cannibals and all ships except Odysseus' are destroyed.

ISLAND OF CIRCE

  • Circe takes his men, Hermes gives him a plant to weaken Circe
  • They beg Circe to help them get home.
  • She tells them to go to the land of the dead

LAND OF THE DEAD

  • Odysseus is told by Circe to awaken the blind prophet Tiresias,
  • From the dead he warns Odysseus about an upcoming journey.
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CIRCES ISLAND

  • Receive a warning about the obstacles they're about to face.
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SIRENS

  • Odysseus buts bee wax over the crews ears and he's tied down to
  • Listen to the song.

SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS

  • Scylla eats six men and if the ship comes too close the
  • The Charybdis will swallow the ship, killing them all.

SUN GOD (HELIOS)

  • They eat Helios' cattle, and for punishment, Zeus drowns their
  • Crew with the strike of a lightning bolt.
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CALYPSO'S ISLAND

  • Calypso captures him and Hermes (messenger) and
  • tells her to let him go.
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THE LAND OF THE PHAECIANS

  • Odysseus is released from Calypso's island.
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