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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.
- Books 3 & 4
Summary: Book 3. At Pylos, Telemachus and Mentor (Athena in...
- Full Text
(2) The story of Penelope and the suitors, with the episode...
- Character List
The Odyssey characters include: Odysseus, Telemachus,...
- Themes
Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas...
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- Important Quotes Explained
Explanation of the famous quotes in The Odyssey, including...
- Calypso
Calypso is an immortal goddess who holds Odysseus prisoner...
- What Does the Ending Mean
Having defeated the suitors, Odysseus reveals his identity...
- Books 3 & 4
Summary. Analysis. Homer begins by asking the Muse, the goddess of poetry and music, to sing to him about Odysseus and his travels. Odysseus and his crew have seen many strange lands and have suffered many trials. Their careless behavior has sometimes angered the gods, who have prevented their safe return to Ithaca.
Having defeated the suitors, Odysseus reveals his identity to Penelope. The next day, he and Telemachus travel to the house where Odysseus’s grieving father, Laertes, lives. Together, the men prepare to fight the fathers of the murdered suitors, but Athena intervenes to make peace.
The story begins twenty years after Odysseus left to fight in the Trojan War, and ten years after he began his journey home to Ithaca. We enter the story in medias res – in the middle of things: Odysseus is trapped on an island with the lovesick goddess Calypso , while his wife and son suffer the transgressions of the suitors, noble young men ...
Explanation of the famous quotes in The Odyssey, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
Book 1. TheOdyssey opens with the narrator invoking the Muse, asking her to sing of Odysseus’s long journey home to Ithaca after the end of the Trojan War. Ten years after the fall of Troy,...
The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic poem by Homer that tells the story of Odysseus’s ten-year struggle to return home to Ithaca after the end of the Trojan War. In Odysseus’s absence, his...
