About Our Trip

Mr. Neiman

Welcome toThe Odyssey!

Greek Island Webcam

• About Our Trip… We are about to join Odysseus on his fateful trip across the Aegean Sea to return to his wife, Penelope and son, Telemachus.

• Let’s find out what challenges and temptations Odysseus, and all of us, will endure.

Welcome to The Odyssey!

• Identify the general location of the action of the Odyssey

• Describe the main characters in the Odyssey• Identify and describe the main challenges

Odysseus confronted on his journey, including:– Poseidon– Calypso– The Lotus Eaters– Charybdis and Scylla– Polyphemus– The Sirens

Trip Objectives

Cast of Characters

• Odysseus• Poseidon• Calypso• The Lotus Eaters• Charybdis and Scylla• Polyphemus• The Sirens• Circe• Aeolus• Land of the Dead• The Phaeacians

Cast of Characters

Geography of the Odyssey

The Odyssey

Poseidon Calypso the Cyclops Polyphemus

Lotus Eaters

charybdis and scylla

Sirens

Circe

Aeolous Land of The Dead

Phaeacians

PoseidonLearn More about

Poseidon!

Poseidon Mythweb

More Poseidon Fun!Poseidon as a god

• Poseidon was the god of the sea• His son was the Cyclops

Polyphemus, who Odysseus and his men blinded in his cave on the island of Cyclopses

• Because of Poseidon’s grudge against Odysseus he is the reason for Odysseus’ detention.

• He vows in vengeance of his son, that Odysseus will never make it home or if so, only after great struggle and losing all of his shipmates.

Circe

Circe On the Web!

Circe was the witch daughter of the sun god, HeliosShe could turn men into animals and was an expert with magical herbsShe turned Odysseus’ men into pigsHowever, she could not do so to Odysseus, as Hermes had educated him on how to evade her spellThey become friends and she helps them on their way.

CalypsoCalypso on the

Web!Calypso on the Web!

• Calypso was a beautiful goddess who lived on the island of Ogygia.

• She fell in love with Odysseus and kept him on her island in lustful embrace for seven years.

• She wanted Odysseus to become her immortal lover.

• However, thanks to Athena’s intercession and Hermes’ command, Calypso let him go.

The PhaeaciansThe Phaeacians on the Web

The Phaeacians were a seafaring peopleOdysseus arrives there from Calypso’s island and is discovered by the princess NausicaaIt is to these xenophobic people that Odysseus recounts his troubles returning homeThey give him a ship and send him home to Ithaca

Polyphemus the Cyclops• In order to escape the Cyclops’

cave, Odysseus and his men get Polyphemus drunk on wine and then drive a flaming spike into his eye

• The men then hide under the sheep as Polyphemus feels them before exiting in the morning• Odysseus hurls insults at

Polyphemus as they escape.• Poseidon, Polyphemus’ daddy,

is not happy. Odysseus will pay

Polyphemus on the Web!

The Lotus Eaters• Odysseus and his men were

driven by a storm to the land of the lotus eaters

• He sent men to discover what sort of people lived there

• They were met by the lotus eaters who fed them lotus plant

• All who ate of the plant succumbed to apathy and mindless pleasure-seeking

• Odysseus forced his drugged men back to the boat amid their sobbing, escaping the temptation of sensual apathy

Lotus Eaters on the Web!

Aeolus

Aeolus on the Web

• Aeolus was the god of the wind

• He received Odysseus and gave him the adverse winds in a bag to aide him in his return to Ithaca.

• Within sight of Ithaca, his men opened the bag while Odysseus slept, releasing the winds and blowing them off-course, thus starting the trials that Poseidon had prophesied.

Land of The DeadHades on the Web

The witch Circe sends Odysseus to the land of the dead.It is located at the far edge of the world.There, he meets heroes such as Achilles and Ajax, and also his own mother.

The Sirens

Sirens on the Web

Sirens

• The sirens were enchanting bird women whose beautiful songs lured men to wreck their ships on the rocks.

• Odysseus commanded his men to plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast to avoid the temptation of their voices.

• When passing by, he begged they untie him and head toward their voices. They bound him tighter and so saved themselves from destruction.

Charybdis & Scylla

Charybdis & Scylla on the

Web

Scylla Profile

Charybdis Profile

• Odysseus was made to pass between the two monsters• Scylla was a sea

monster perched on a cliff with six heads that ate sailors that passed by too closely• Charybdis is a giant

whirlpool that would destroy ships that avoided Scylla