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Introduction | |
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Invocation and part summary | |
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council of the gods | |
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Athene visits Telemachos in Ithaka and urges him to go in search of his father | |
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the suitors feast in the house of Telemachos | |
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Assembly on Ithaka | |
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Telemachos publicly requests the suitors to go home | |
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secret departure of Telemachos and Athene | |
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Athene and Telemachos arrive in Pylos | |
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entertainment by Nestor and his family | |
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Telemachos and Peisistratos leave for Sparta | |
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Arrival at Sparta | |
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entertainment by Menelaos and Helen | |
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the wandering of Menelaos | |
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report that Odysseus is on Kalypso's island | |
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at Ithaka the suitors learn of Telemachos' departure and lay an ambush for him | |
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Council of the gods | |
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Hermes tells Kalypso to let Odysseus go | |
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he sails on a raft but is wrecked by Poseidon | |
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he swims ashore on Scheria | |
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Odysseus encounters Nausikaa, the princess of the Phaiakians, and is accepted as a guest | |
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Reception of Odysseus by Alkinoos and Arete | |
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Odysseus at the games of the Phaiakians | |
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he is asked to tell his name and his story | |
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The wanderings of Odysseus | |
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the raid on the Kikonians | |
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the Lotus-Eaters | |
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the adventure with Polyphemos the Cyclops | |
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The wanderings of Odysseus | |
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Aiolos and the bag of winds | |
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Odysseus blown back to sea after sighting Ithaka | |
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the adventure with the Laistrygones | |
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Circe's island | |
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the men transformed and restored | |
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The wanderings of Odysseus | |
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voyage to the land of the dead | |
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interviews | |
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Elpenor | |
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Teiresias | |
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Antikleia | |
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the heroines | |
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interlude in Scheria | |
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interviews | |
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the heroes | |
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return to Circe | |
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The wanderings of Odysseus | |
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the Sirens | |
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Skylla and Charybdis | |
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the cattle of Helios | |
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loss of the last ship and all the companions | |
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Odysseus rescued by Kalypso | |
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end of his story to the Phaiakians | |
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Return of Odysseus to Ithaka | |
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he is landed, alone | |
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strange return of the Phaiakian ship | |
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Athene comes to Odysseus and advises him | |
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Odysseus received by Eumaios | |
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he tells Eumaios the (false) story of his life | |
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Telemachos, urged by Athene, leaves Sparta | |
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from Pylos, he sails for home | |
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Odysseus still with Eumaios | |
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life story of Eumaios | |
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Telemachos eludes the ambush and reaches Ithaka | |
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Telemachos visits Eumaios | |
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Odysseus reveals himself to Telemachos | |
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Penelope and the suitors learn that Telemachos has returned | |
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night at the house of Eumaios | |
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Return of Telemachos to his house | |
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Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, goes to the house with Eumaios | |
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Odysseus begs from the suitors | |
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Fight between Odysseus and Iros | |
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Penelope appears briefly before the suitors | |
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after disorderly incidents the suitors go home | |
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Interview by night between Odysseus and Penelope | |
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Odysseus almost betrayed by his scar | |
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the story of the scar | |
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plan for the test of the bow | |
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Next morning all the principals gather in the house | |
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The test of the bow | |
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the suitors fail | |
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Odysseus succeeds | |
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The killing of the suitors | |
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punishment of the faithless maids and thrall | |
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Recognition of Odysseus by Penelope | |
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reunion | |
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Odysseus goes to Laertes' farm | |
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The heroes of Troy learn the story from the ghosts of the suitors | |
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Odysseus reveals himself to Laertes | |
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burial of the suitors by their relatives, who plan revenge | |
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final combat between Odysseus and his party and the relatives of the suitors | |
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peace imposed by Athene | |
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Glossary | |