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Challenges Facing Odysseus

Challenges Facing Odysseus. The Journey from Troy to Ithaca. www.englishare.net. CICONES . Our first landfall was Ismarus in the land of the Cicones. We sacked the town, killed the men and took the women captive. I was for putting out right then, but my men would not hear of it.

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Challenges Facing Odysseus

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  1. Challenges Facing Odysseus The Journey from Troy to Ithaca www.englishare.net

  2. CICONES Our first landfall was Ismarus in the land of the Cicones. We sacked the town, killed the men and took the women captive. I was for putting out right then, but my men would not hear of it www.black-international-cinema.com

  3. THE LOTUS EATERS Next we visited the shores of the Lotus Eaters, and three of my crew tasted this strange plant. They lost all desire to return home and had to be carried off by force! www.lotus.org

  4. CYCLOPS On another island my hungry men and I discovered a cave full of goat pens. The shepherd turned out to be enormous, and he had a single glaring eye in his forehead. About.com

  5. This monster Cyclops promptly ate two of my men for dinner. We were trapped in the cave by a boulder in the doorway that only the Cyclops could budge, so we couldn't kill him while he slept or we’d never escape! Instead we sharpened a pole and used it to gouge out his eye while he was drunk. We escaped his groping by hiding beneath the undersides of his goats. About.com

  6. AEOLIA – KEEPER OF THE WINDS After I entertained Aeolia on his island, he set me and my men back to sea with a leather bag of steady breeze. My crew thought the bag contained treasure, opened the bag, and we were blown terribly off course. www.umich.edu

  7. LAESTRYGONIANS From their shores, enormous monsters threw boulders at my men. Many of those sailors who were not pummeled with rocks were eaten! www.umich.edu

  8. CIRCEThe nymph who lived in the water palace on Aeaea The survivors put in at the island of the enchantress Circe. My men were entertained by her, but she magically turned them into pigs. Hermes brought an herb that would protect me from her magic, but I had to spend a year sleeping with Circe before she would allow us to escape. www.jkennethleap.com

  9. SIRENSWater nymphs whose sweet singing lures sailors to their doom After I followed Circe’s command to visit the land of the dead, we were at sea once more. There, we came upon the Sirens. I had stopped up the ears of my crew with wax, and I alone listened while tied to the mast, powerless to steer toward shipwreck. www.umich.edu

  10. CHARYBDIS & SCYLLA My men and I found ourselves between Charybdis and Scylla. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place! www.all-art.org

  11. when he would not love her back and decided to punish Scylla. She prepared a vial of powerful poison and poured it in the pool where Scylla bathed. As soon as the nymph entered the water she was transformed into a frightful monster with twelve feet and six heads, each with three rows of teeth. Below the waist her body was made up of hideous monsters, like dogs, who barked unceasingly. She stood there in utter misery, unable to move, loathing and destroying everything that came into her reach. Whenever a ship passed, each of her heads would seize one of the crew (www.pantheon.org). Scylla was a nymph with whom a sea god named Glaucus fell madly in love. She fled from him onto the land where he could not follow. He went to Circe to ask for a love potion to melt Scylla’s heart. As he told his tale of love to Circe, Circe fell in love with him herself. Circe was furiously angry SCYLLA

  12. CHARYBDIS Like Scylla, Charybdis is former sea nymph with a monstrous mouth who swallows a tremendous amount of water and creates whirlpools when she belches the water back out. Many of my men perish as we encounter Scylla and Charybdis. Only a few survive! Wikipedia.com

  13. HELIOS – THE SUN GOD Finally we were set upon the island of the sun god Helios. My men disregarded all warnings and sacrificed his cattle, so back at sea Zeus sent a thunderbolt that smashed our ship. I alone survived Helios’ island, Thrinakia. www.umich.edu

  14. CALYPSO All alone, I was marooned on the island of Calypso, a beautiful nymph who kept me as her lover. She offered me eternal life to stay with her and forget returning home to Ithaca and Penelope. I refused her offer, and Hermes helped me to escape the island on a small raft. www.artchive.com

  15. POSIEDON – GOD OF THE SEA My enemy Poseidon destroyed my little raft when he thrashed his trident in the sea. I narrowly escaped with my life and washed ashore on Scheria, home of the Phaeacians days later.

  16. Works Cited PowerPoint Information Holt, Rinehart, and Winston’s Elements of Literature, Third Course (2000) • “Encyclopedia Mythica – Scylla” http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/scylla.html 12 June 2007 PowerPoint Images • “Powers of Literature” http://www.englishare.net/literature/Odysseus-Sirens-duo.jpg 12 June 2007 • “Romare Bearden Art Impressions” http://www.black-international-cinema.com/BIC06/IMAGES/FestivalImpressions/romarebearden/romarebearden_artimpressions.htm 12 June 2007 • “Lotus” http://www.lotus.org/ 12 June 2007 • “About.com” http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/P/N/cyclops.jpg 12 June 2007 • “About.com” http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/Q/N/cyclops_Odysseus.jpg 12 June 2007 • “A Visual Odyssey – ‘Aeolus’ by Alistair Malcolm” http://www.umich.edu/~homeros/Representations%20of%20Homer's%20Ideas/Paintings/Paintings.htm 12 June 2007 • “A Visual Odyssey - The Laestrygonians - Wall painting from a house on the Esquiline Hill, Rome, Late 1st century BC” http://www.umich.edu/~homeros/Representations%20of%20Homer's%20Ideas/Paintings/Paintings.htm 12 June 2007 • “Circe The Temptress” http://www.jkennethleap.com/projects/residential/circe/pages/circe005.htm 12 June 2007 • “A Visual Odyssey - Herbert James Draper - Ulysses and the Sirens, 1909” http://www.umich.edu/~homeros/Representations%20of%20Homer's%20Ideas/Paintings/Paintings.htm 12 June 2007 • “Wikipedia” Charybdis as portrayed in The Odyssey (1997) TV miniseries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis 12 June 2007 • “Prehistoric and Ancient Art: Prehistoric and Ancient Art – ‘Scylla’” http://www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/Flaxman1.htm 12 June 2007 • “A Visual Odyssey - Romare Bearden - Cattle of the Sun God, 1979” http://www.umich.edu/~homeros/Representations%20of%20Homer's%20Ideas/Paintings/Paintings.htm 12 June 2007 • “Beckmann, Max - Odysseus and Calypso (1943)” http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/beckmann/beckmann_odysseus.jpg.html 12 June 2007 • “Greek Mythology Link” http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/000Free/003Illustrations/source/7.html 12 June 2007

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