The Odyssey is the story of Odysseus' 10-year journey home after the Trojan War. During this time, he faced many challenges including encounters with the Lotus-Eaters, Cyclops, Laestrygonians, Circe, Sirens, and others. With his cleverness and help from gods, he survived these ordeals and eventually made it home to Ithaca, where he had to defeat the suitors who were pursuing his wife Penelope.

1. Odyssey
“Adventures of
Odysseus”

2. The Odyssey
• TheOdyssey is the story
of Odysseus’ 10-year
journey to return home to
his family.

3. Before the
Odyssey when
• The 10- year battle ended
Odysseus, king of Ithaca ( a Greek
island), broke into the walls of Troy
with the Trojan Horse “gift.”

4. Who is Odysseus?
• Laertes, King of Ithaca married
Anticlea.
• They purchased a slave
woman, Eurycleia.
• Laertes and Anticlea had a son; was
named “Odysseus”, by his grandfather

5. Who is Odysseus?
• Odysseus becomes the King of
Ithaca and marries Penelope, daughter
of King Icarius.
• Odysseus did not want to join the
Trojan War until his son Telemachus
was born.

6. Odysseus’
• Because Odysseus is gone, suitors
Absence home.
flocked Penelope’s
• If Telemachus tries to assume his
father’s throne, he would be likely be
overthrown.
• If Penelope does not soon choose a
suitor, civil war will start in Ithaca.

7. The Adventures of Odysseus

9. Odysseus’ & the Gods
Though Athena and Poseidon helped
the Greeks during the Trojan War, a
Greek warrior violates Cassandra in
Athena’s temple during the sack of
Troy, so Athena turns against the
Greeks and convinces Poseidon to do
the same.

10. Odysseus’ & the Gods
The Greeks are beset by terrible storms
on the way home; many ships are
destroyed and the fleet is scattered.
Odysseus and his crew are blown off
course, which starts a decade-long
series of adventures for the great
Greek chief.

11. t: City of Ismarus (Island of the Cicone
• Odysseus decided to raid Ismaros,
where Maron gave him many gallons of
wine.
•This gave the Cicones time to
recuperate their losses and they in
return, attacked Odysseus' men.

12. t: City of Ismarus (Island of the Cicone
• The men finally pulled back and left.
• They attempted to travel to Malea.
• But the winds blew them off course
and instead they landed in the land of
the Lotus Eaters after ten days of
storm.

13. 2nd: Island of the Lotus-Eaters
• Odysseus and his men landed here
to take on water. He warned his men
to be careful on this Island. The lotus
plant was said to be a drug that if you
took it you would never leave this
Island.

14. 2nd: Island of the Lotus-Eaters
• He sent three men out to get the
information of the inhabitants of the
odd island. When they came back, it
was apparent that they had eaten the
lotus flowers and that they had no will
to return to Ithaca.

15. 3rd : Island of the Cyclops
• Here Odysseus takes twelve men
with him ashore to explore.
• Odysseus comes to this Island and
is trapped by the Cyclops.

16. 3rd : Island of the Cyclops
• They encounter a
Cyclops named
Polyphemus.
•Polyphemus is the
Cyclops who is son of
Poseidon and he plans on
eating all of Odysseus’s

17. 3rd : Island of the Cyclops
•Odysseus’s blinds
the Cyclops and
mocks him as he
leaves the Island.
• With Odysseus’s
cleverness he and
his men escape this

18. 3rd : Island of the Cyclops
•Odysseus’s blinds
the Cyclops and
mocks him as he
leaves the Island.
• With Odysseus’s
cleverness he and
his men escape this

19. 4th : Island of the Wind (Aeolia)
• While on shore Aeolus who is
the keeper of winds gives
Odysseus a bag of winds so
that Odysseus is able to travel
home.

20. 4th : Island of the Wind (Aeolia)
• But when the ships are in sight of
Ithaca, Odysseus' men get curious
and open the bag of winds, thus
propelling them away from Ithaca and
back to Aeolus. This time the king is
not hospitable and forces them to
leave his island.

21. 5th : Island of the Laestrygonians
• Away from Aeolus, Odysseus and
his fleet come to a strange place
called the Land of the Laestrygonians.
•The people here are cannibals and
they ate some of Odysseus' men.

22. 5th : Island of the Laestrygonians
• Then they launch rocks from the
high cliffs, destroying 11 of
Odysseus' 12 ships. Odysseus is
compelled to leave with his only
ship.

23. 6th : Aeaea (Circe’s Island)
• After the Land of the
Laestrygonians, Odysseus
and his one ship with one
crew come to an island
called Aeaea.
•Here an enchantress
named Circe lives.

24. 6th : Aeaea (Circe’s Island)
• After an initial setback, Odysseus and
Circe become friends and lovers.
•Circe captures Odysseus, and puts
him under her spell. She turns his men
into swine.

25. 6th : Aeaea (Circe’s Island)
• Hermes gives Odysseus a magical
herb that will help Odysseus escape
the spell of Circe and have his men
changed back into humans. Circe
also helps Odysseus with his search
for Ithaca.

26. 7th : The Underworld / Realms of Hades
• This is the Island of
the dead also known as
the Underworld.
•Odysseus must go
here to talk to the
prophet Tiresias.

27. 7th : The Underworld / Realms of Hades
•Tiresias tells Odysseus of how he
must get home, and of the upcoming
dangers that lay ahead. With the
newly acquired knowledge, Odysseus
and his men leave the underworld and
travel back to Aeaea to bury one of
the crew who had died there.

28. 8th : Island of the Sirens
• Odysseus being a brave man allows
himself to be tide to the front of his
boat as he passes the Island of the
Sirens.
•The Sirens are beautiful women who
sing and attract seamen into the
shallow harbor when they become

29. 8th : Island of the Sirens
• Wisely, Odysseus fills his mens'
ears with wax so they will not be
able to hear the singing.
•They pass the Sirens unharmed
and keep on sailing south.

30. 9th : Scylla and Charybdis
• Scylla is a six-
headed monster
who lives in a
cave above the
cliffs on one side
of the strait.

31. 9th : Scylla and Charybdis
• Charybdis is
a fierce
whirlpool that
lays on the
opposite side
of Scylla.

32. 9th : Scylla and Charybdis
• The ship safely steers around
Charybdis and then come to Scylla
where they lose six men by the six
mouths of the monster. A little
battered, they sail on.

33. 10th : Island of the Sun God (Thrinacia)
• The home of the cattle of the sun
god Helios.
•Odysseus was warned not to eat the
cattle or else the gods would become
angry.

34. 10th : Island of the Sun God (Thrinacia)
• Odysseus’s men are at the starving
point and find cattle on this land
while Odysseus is asleep.
•Helios punishes all of Odysseus’s
men with death but Odysseus is lead
to safety by Zeus.

35. 11th : Island of Ogygia (Calypso)
•The island is home to the beautiful
nymph Calypso who Odysseus
befriends and becomes lovers with.
•After nine years with her, Odysseus
is decreed to return to Ithaca by the
gods.

36. 12th : Island of the Phaeacians
•The island is home to the beautiful
nymph Calypso who Odysseus
befriends and becomes lovers with.
•After nine years with her, Odysseus
is decreed to return to Ithaca by the
gods.

37. 12th : Island of the Phaeacians (Scheria
•This is the home of King Alcinous
and Queen Arete. Also on this Island
lives the Phaecians. Odysseus stays
here after being punished on sea by
Poseidon. The Phaecians give
Odysseus a magical boat to Ithaca.

38. BACK AT HOME: Island of Ithaca
• Soon Odysseus is back on
Ithaca. But before he can take
back his rightful place as king,
he must first defeat the
suitors!!!

39. GROUP 5: ODYSSEY
PENALES | CABAS | FULACHE |
TORRES LIRIO | RANJO |
LACSAMANA
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