The Odyssey
Name:
Places
Problem/What Happened
The men raid a town to get supplies
Women Who Love Him
1. Cicones
but get caught raiding the women
Penelope (his wife)
instead. Many die.
Circe
Stop to get supplies, but the people
2. The Lotus Eaters
here eat Lotus plants and forget all
(Hippy Crackhead Island) about home.
Stop to get supplies, but end up
3. Polyphemus
being attacked by a Cyclops – end
up making Poseidon mad.
The wind god gives Odysseus a bag
4. Aeolus
of wind. His men think it is a bag
of gold and open it sending them back
Monsters Who Wish to Eat
Him
5. Laestrygonians
Cannibals that sink all but one ship
6. Circe
7. Hades
8. Sirens
9. Scylla and
Charybdis
She is a witch that turns men into
animals (pigs). Falls in love with
Odysseus and helps him out 3 years later
Odysseus goes to Hades to learn what
he needs to do to break Poseidon’s
curse - DON’T TOUCH THE COWS!
These female bird-like monsters sing
songs to lure sailors to their death.
Odysseus blocks his ears to hear their song.
Two monsters - one six headed another a
whirlpool - Odysseus must go past them.
Gets close to Scylla and loses 6 men
Polyphemus (Cyclops)
Laestrygonians
Sirens
Scylla
Charybdis
Gods Who
Like Him
Athena
Aeolus
Gods Who
Don’t Like
Him
Poseidon
Aeolus
10.
11.
Others
12.
13.
14.
Telemachus (his son)
The Lotus Eaters
Tieresias (blind prophet)