By: Drew McClain. Odysseus leaves with 12 ships and 144 men.

By: Drew McClain

Odysseus leaves with 12 ships and 144 men

Odysseus and his men attack the Ciconians and he loses half his men

Zeus creates a storm to blow them off course

A couple members of Odysseus’ crew ate the lotus flowers which made them forget about their families and homes

Some of the crew members had to be dragged back to the ship

Odysseus stayed too long in Polyphemus’ cave and more of his men were killed

Odysseus blinds Polyphemus angering Polyphemus’ father Posedion

Odysseus is given a bag of wind from Aeolus - god of the wind

Odysseus’ men believe there is gold in the bag They open it while Odysseus is sleeping and are sent

back to Aeolia

Aeolus refuses to give Odysseus another bag of wind

Is home of the giant cannibals All ships are destroyed except Odysseus’ because he kept his ship

out of the harbor

Is the home of Circe Circe turns Odysseus’ men into pigs Circe helps Odysseus by telling him to go to

Hades (Land of the Dead) Odysseus stays in Aeaea for one year

Odysseus asks Tiresias, the blind poet, how to get home

The sirens lure sailors to the shore with their beautiful songs then the sailors die on the shore

Odysseus is the only one allowed to hear their songs

Scylla is a six headed monster that eats six of Odysseus’ men

Home of the sun god’s cattle and sheep Odysseus’ men eat some sheep and cattle which angers

the sun god

The sun god urges Zeus to create a storm The storm kills the last of Odysseus’ men and wrecks

his ship

A whirlpool Odysseus survives by grabbing hold of

a tree branch

Odysseus stays with Calypso for eight years

Odysseus is helped by Nausicca, King Alcinous, and Queen Arete

He is escorted home

Odysseus arrives home