Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Voyage of Odysseus
- Odysseus
- Prince of Ithica
- A myth of his adventure to reclaim his throne
- "In the storms that scattered the returning Greeks, Odysseus and
his men were driven far away from the rest," (Colum 1)
- Setting
- Ancient Greece
- Island of Circe
- Phaeacia
- Ithaca
- Overcoming obstacles
- Having to defeat and
outsmart many
creatures in order to return to
his throne
- Cyclops
- Circe the Enchantress
- Sirens
- Scylla
- Charybdis
- Calypso
- Details of violence
and death
- The descriptive detail makes you visualize the
scenes and makes the myth come to life
- "laid hands upon two of my
men, and swinging them by the
legs, dashed their brains out on
the earth." (2)
- "He cut them to pieces and ate
them before our very eyes." (2)
- "Then I and my companions laid hold
on the great stake and, dashing at the
Cyclops, thrust it into his eye." (3)
- Help surviving
- Without help Odysseus would not have
survived and never would have reclaimed
his throne
- Circe the Enchantress warned
Odysseus about the sirens, Scylla,
Calypso and Charybdis
- Eurylochus told Odysseus that Circe
had turned his men into swine and
she had poisoned the food, so he
would know not to eat it