Students will take notes on the geography and locations of Ithaca, Troy, and Greece, as well as taking notes and drawing Odyssey. Troy was located on the northwest coast of Turkey. It was the name of the monumental city featured in the Trojan War. At least 2,700 years ago, ancient Greeks were colonizing northwest Turkey, within this region, lied Troy. Troy no longer exists, but it once was a real place. Troy was first dug up by Frank Calvert in 1863. (http://www.livescience.com/38191-ancient-troy) Greece is located on the Southern part of Europe. Also, on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Greece dominates the Sea and the southern route to the Turkish Strait because of its location west of the Aegean Sea. Greece is mostly surrounded …show more content…
Giant body of water in it, mountainous. (http://www.greeka.com/ionian/ithaca/ithaca-geography) The Journey: (https://www.tripline.net/trip/Odysseus'_Journey_Home_) Troy-Odysseus left home in Ithaca to fight the war in Troy. When the war was over, he began his journey home. Ismarus(Land of the Cicones)-Odysseus went to Ismarus for supplies such as food and water. Many of his men died when they raided a village, which made the gods mad. Island of the Lotus Eaters-After the raid in Ismaros, the rest of the group, including Odysseus, made their next stop at the Island of the Lotus Eaters. They received nectar from the lotus eaters. However, the nectar had made the men who had consumed it loses their interest to go home. Do to some of the men eating it, Odysseus found them and tied them up since they were putting up a fight to get back to the …show more content…
To avoid this, the oarsmen got beeswax in their ears and Odysseus was tied to the mast of the ship until they had passed the island. Scylla and Charybdis- The journey home consisted of navigating through two cliffs, one on which Scylla lives, the other, Charybdis. Scylla is a six-headed monster who takes six people from each ship that passes by, while Charybdis is an underwater monster that takes all the men and the ship. Odysseus decided to risk losing six men. However, he had ended up losing none because they had thrown a lamb on to the cliff which had kept Scylla busy when they had passed. Island of Helios- Next destination was to pass Helios, the Greek god of the sun. Odysseus was told not to harm the cattle and they can be returned to their hometown, but if they do, all will die except for Odysseus. They ate what was given to them by Circe and left the cattle alone by Odysseus’ orders. Despite these orders, one of the men persuaded the rest to sacrifice the best cattle to the gods while Odysseus was praying somewhere inland. When Odysseus returned, he was highly angered, as well as Helios. With that, the winds settled and the journey continued, until they sailed into a storm. All men get killed, first the one who steered the ship, then the rest died by a lightning bolt sent by the Greek god Zeus. During this, the ship was drifting towards
Around the 1200 B.C., Odysseus was sailing the Mediterranean Sea for the purpose of reaching home. In his long narrative poem, The Odyssey, Homer conveys how Odysseus desperately wishes to go home to Ithaca. However, he faces brutal treatment and obstacles from several different antagonists, and more obstacles appear when he reaches home. Odysseus came across many external conflicts, which he dealt with intelligence, determination, and loyalty.
After suffering from the Cyclopes, Odysseus’ ship came to a stop at the land of Aeolia (king of the winds). Aeolia let him and his men stay on his island for a month so they could recover. Before they left, Aeolia gave Odysseus all the east
After a long journey back from the Trojan War, he encounters superhuman beings, luring traps and sea beasts. Finally he reached his home land of Ithaca, where he kills suitors trying to court his wife. After the suitors are dead, Odysseus confronts his wife, Penelope, but she still refuses to acknowledge his reality. Finally she knows he is real because Odysseus tells her about their
Ten years after the fall of Troy, Odysseus a great hero has yet to return to his home in Ithaca. It begins with Athena and Poseidon who helped the Greeks during the Trojan War. Athena turned against the Greeks and convinces Poseidon to do the same. The Greeks are hit by storms on the way home and many ships are destroyed and the fleet is scattered. The war and his distress at sea keep Odysseus away from Ithaca for twenty years.
In The Odyssey, Odysseus sails from his home island of Ithaca, Greece, to Troy. (modern day Turkey) His army and him defeat Troy with a tactful strategy, then leave for home. On the voyage home, Odysseus makes many mistakes like conceitedly setting up camp in a cyclops cave, sending his men to meet the Lotus Eaters, and disappointing the gods by stealing food from the land of the Cicones. But Odysseus makes up for his mistakes by saving his men from Circe. He also sacrifices his
Odysseus was very brave, almost to the point of throwing away his men 's lives to take a risk. While Odysseus was on the island of the Cyclopes, he explored more than most men would have when he walked into the cave of Polyphemus. He did find lots of cheese and milk, but the result of this was death for some of his men when Polyphemus returned and found them there.
Out to sea again!’ My men were mutinous fools, on stores of wine … -while fugitives went inland running to call arms to the main forces of the Cicones.” Odysseus is wise enough to realize that the enemy would slaughter him and his men if they stayed. His wisdom is also evident when he landed on the where the Lotus-Eaters live. The Lotus-Eaters are people whose only concern is to eat an addicting plant called the lotus. If one happens to eat the lotus, one becomes obsessed with browsing on the lotus. Odysseus does not send the entire crew out to this land; he sends small party of men to explore the land. When they do not return, Odysseus realizes something detrimental to their journey is on the land.
B. After the escape from Scylla and Charybdis, the remainder of Odysseus’s men go hungry on the island of Helios. They remember Odysseus’s warning about not eating Helios’s cattle but proceed anyway because of their need for food. Even though they give offerings to the cattle they still eat them and Zeus punishes them with a lightning bolt destroying all the men besides Odysseus. Instead of listening to Odysseus’s orders and obeying Helios’s command, his men act in a selfish manner and consume the food.
Odysseus faced bloodshed for ten years during the Trojan War, and he aims to exact vengeance on the suitors who moved into his home with the same type of bloodshed. Odysseus left Ithaca for twenty
Odysseus’s journey home started when he was getting ready to set sail and leave Troy after the Trojan War. Odysseus shouts how he solved the war all by himself without any help from the gods. He is arrogant about their victory which angers Poseidon. Poseidon, along with other gods, curses his journey home.
After the war, Odysseus and his men encounter several obstacles. The biggest one was when they land on the island of the Cyclops”In the next land we found were Cyclopes,giants,lotus without a law to bless them”(book 9,line56-57).
Odysseus and his crew were in sight of the homeland they had waited so long to see, when a hand of rebel crewmen opened the bag because they thought it contained treasures, creating a great gale that blew them back to Aeolus. When Aeolus saw this he believed that Odysseus was cursed and banished him from the island. this is not the only time Odysseus was betrayed by his men and suffered a great price.
Cicones were a Homeric Thracian tribe, whose stronghold in the time of the Odyssey was the town of Ismara, located at the foot of mount Ismara on the south coast of Thrace, in modern Greece. After they raided the Cicones they made there way over to the Land of the Lotus Eaters. The Lotus is a plant which affects your brain when consumed to make you want to stay on the island and eat it for the rest of your life. Some of Odysseus’s men were taken over by the lotus plant, but overcame it when the other crew members made them stop. One of the biggest problems Odysseus’s crew had to overcome was being turned into swine by Circe.
When Odysseus is in trouble he always shows that he is depending on the gods by praying to them. The fact that the gods usually listen to him shows that he is well liked by the gods. In order to be a Greek hero you had to be liked by the gods since religion was such a big part in their lives. Odysseus, with the help of the gods, can survive adventures that kill most other men. Odysseus travels to the island of the Cyclopians. The Cyclopians are giants that have one eye, they don't fear the gods because they believe that they are better than the gods and they eat people. They represent the opposite of what Greek men should be. Odysseus and his men meet Polyphemus the Cyclops. Polyphemus being a Cyclops eats some of Odysseus' men. Odysseus with the help of the gods figures out a plan to escape and he does. Scylla is a ferocious monster with six heads that kills most men that pass by her island. She kills six of Odysseus' men. Odysseus prevents her from killing himself and more men. There is another ferocious monster named Charybdis. Charybdis sucks in water from the sea and creates a whirlpool that kills any ship that passes by. Odysseus passes by her. His crew is killed and his ship is destroyed in the whirlpool but Odysseus alone survives. There is an island that Odysseus passes by with monsters called Sirens on it. The Sirens sing beautiful songs that lure ships toward them. The ships then crash into the island and the people are killed.
Odysseus and his men land on the island of the Cyclops extremely hungry and looking for food. He and his