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The Greek Mythology 

of Odysseus

By: Rafael Delgado

     Odysseus who is the husband of Penelope, father of

Telemachus, and son of Laërtes is re-owned for his 

brilliance, guile, and versatility and is also known as Odysseus 

the Cunning as a cobra. Odysseus is most known for his long 

journey it had taken   him. After many months of traveling space 

and the world,   he finally got home it had taken him ten years 

after the Trojan War and his famous Horse Ploy to capture the 

City of Troy. His wife was as thrilled to see him return

     The Trojan War was over because Odysseus had managed to

 trick the enemy just like a cunning person by pretending and as a 

gift they had given them a wooden horse as gift of surrender what 

but the Trojans did not know that the horse was full of an army of

 Odysseus's men. At night all the men had came out of the horse

 opened the city gates and attacked the Trojans winning over 

Trojan 

City. After the War was over then began the journey of Odysseus

 and his trip home.

In the story of Odysseus he meets different people, creatures, gods, 

and goddesses. The gods and goddesses had helped him find his 

way home. One god that had very bad hatred was Zeus. He had 

hated him because Odysseus had hurt his son the cyclopes and said 

that not even the power of his father which was Zeus could heal 

him to make it better. After all that the Cyclopes had done to harm 

Odysseus he had told the cyclopes his name and the cyclopes had to 

apologize and care for Odysseus but he refused his hospitality.

     Next they land on the Island of Aeolus. Zeus had made him 

keeper of all the winds. Aeolus had let Odysseus stay by the rule 

of hospitality, Odysseus had told him tales of Troy for a month 

to keep him entertained. Aeolus was kind enough to provide a 

nice steady breeze to guide him home. Soon they were a few miles 

from home and Odysseus had dozed off, his crew noticed the bag 

and they had opened it thinking it was gold and all winds were 

released and the ship along with all the crew was sent back to the 

Island of Aeolus

     After a failed attempt to go home they now set sail and land on the 

island of Circe. Odysseus had to split his crew into two groups not 

after the split the crew had came across a stone house in the middle of 

the woods. They had looked closer and it was surrounded by lions and 

wolves. They had heard singing coming from the house, Circe had 

came out and welcomed the crew members but one did not trust her 

and he stood behind. Circe had given the men food and honeyed wine 

which turned them into swine. The other crew member, Eurylochus 

had ran back to tell Odysseus.

     After Eurylochus had gone to tell Odysseus about what had 

happened to the rest of his crew. Odysseus went to go deal with the 

problem until Hermes had appeared to tell him that Circe is evil he 

also came to tell him what to do. he had told him to drink the potion 

that Circe give him knowing that Odysseus would be protected soon 

enough he had managed to save all his crew members by wasting a 

year there. Circe told him he can go but he had to go to the 

underworld before he could set sail for home.

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