The Odyssey by Homer
- Odysseus's house is full of suitors eating all his food and drinking his wine waiting for Athena to choose a new husband
- Telemachus calls a council of suitors to try and get rid of them, but the mock him and decide to stay
- Telemachus sails to Pylos to meet King Nestor and ask about his father's Whereabouts
- Telemachus reaches Sparta and learns his father is trapped on Calypso's island. The suitors plan ambush and kill Telemachus when he returns
- Odysseus builds a raft and sails for 17 days besieged by Poseidon's wrath. The raft is destroyed and he swims to shore.
- Nausicaa finds Odysseus and takes him to her father's house for a weird washing party. She directs him to her royal parents.
- The king senses Odysseus greatness and offers his daughter in marriage but Odysseus declines and only wants to return home.
- The Phaeacian compete in sports style games and recruit Odysseus. He says he is too old and worn out from the war.
- Odysseus gets captured by a huge cyclops and kept in a cave. Odysseus blinds the Cyclops with a flame stick and escapes to his boat taunting the cyclops as he leaves.
- Circe turns Odysseus's men into pigs and tempts Odysseus into her bed. He makes her swear an oath she won't harm him on his quest. She tells them they must go to the underworld next.
- Odysseus travels to the underworld and meets on his dead crewmen who fell off Circe's roof and broke his neck.
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