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Ainsley Dunn's Odyssey Pt. 1 (Characters (Odysseus: ruler, father of…

- - - - because he stabbed out his son Polythemos' eye; lost his only eye
    - - Aegisthus deserves punishment since he had an affair with Agamemnon's wife while he was in Troy and then killed him upon return
      - Hermes warned him not to do this but he ignored the advice
      - Since Orestes is Agamemnon's son, Aegisthus was just trying to avenge his father
    - - Athena wishes to send hermes to free him but Zeus says no
        
        Athena disguises herself as a man and visits Odysseus' family friend
        
        Telemachos, Odysseus' son, forms bond with Mentes (athena)
        
        she tries to put confidence into Telemachus so that he goes to find his father
        
        suitors to marry penelope are terrible guests; law of xenia abused horribly
        
        Penelope comes down and tells the poet to turn the music down since she is sad because they're singing songs about Troy which remind her of her husband
      - Family all believes he's dead
- - - - Helen: Menelaus' wife, most beautiful woman in the world
- - - - curses suitors in Zeus' name and he sends down 2 eagles to prey on the council's people as a warning
        
        Eurymachus claims their kingdom will be in grave danger if Telemachus doesn't send his mother away
    - - antinous wishes to send penelope back to her father's house
    - - Mentor and Halitherses would journey with Telemachus since they are friends of Odysseus
      - Telemachus looks to Athena for wisdom
        
        She tells him if he is a true son of Odysseus he will be successful as he will resemble his father's greatest attributes.
        
        Says he will succeed since she will journey with him and provide a ship, a crew of volunteers, and guidance
- - - - Telemachus is terrified by the sight
      - Telemachus and Pallas (Athena) invited to join feast
    - - Nestor doesn't know where his father is because their ships split on the way home and no one has heard the fate of the other ship
        
        Odysseus goes with Meneleus but then goes back to go get Agamemnon and is never seen again while Nestor and Menelaus arrived home safely
    - - Athena reveals herself and says she will stay on the ship to accompany the young men
        
        Nestor is so pleased that Telemachus receives affection from the gods much like his father, that they throw a feast and sacrifice a cow in her honor
- - - - Helen recognizes Telemachus from his father and makes a special concoction to take away their grief as they speak of painful subjects
      - Helen tells story of Odysseus disguising himself as a slave and goes into Troy and is caught by Helen, but Helen doesn't expose him
    - - He is stuck on an island and gods are keeping him there. He asks a nymph how to leave. She says he must go to god Proteus. Menelaus forces Proteus to tell him why he is stuck on the island. Proteus tells him that Agamemnon was murdered and he is devastated. Then he says that Odysseus is alive but has been captured by Calypso. He then says that Menelaus angered the gods by not sacrificing to Poseidon and he may not return home until he sacrifices 100 cows in the god's name at the Egyptian river. He does this and returns home
  - - - Penelope learns about Telemachus' departure and is gravely sad and prays to Athena to keep her son safe
        
        Athena takes the form of Penelope's sister to comfort her
- - - - When Hermes arrives he sees that Odysseus is still grieving and he tells Calypso that she must free him as Zeus' order and that he must build his own raft and sail home
        
        Calypso resists at first claiming she saved him from Zeus as he shipwrecked Odysseus and his crew. She says she will not assist him in leaving but she will free him as Zeus' orders
        
        Odysseus believes she is tricking him and makes her swear an oath she isn't
        
        Calypso offers him immortality if he stays, but Odysseus tells her he still longs to go home even though she is beautiful
        
        Spends 4 days building raft and leaves on the 5th
        
        Sailed for 18 days until Poseidon found him and made his trip hard by making a storm that breaks his ship and leaves him stranded within sight of land
        
        The goddess Ino visits him and tells him to take off all his clothes, take her magic scarf that makes him have no fear of danger, and swim to shore, and when he arrives throw the scarf back into the sea
        
        After 2 days of swimming he arrives at land but there is no shore for him to swim to. So Athena helps him up to a river bank and he stays the night under bushes in the forrest