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