(This has also led to many events that were basically footnotes in the original being iconic setpieces in mythology.) Conversely, this usually expands Books 9-12 (the part that deals with everything between Odysseus leaving Troy and him meeting Calypso) from a sixth of the story to the majority of it. Adaptation Expansion: Adaptations or retellings have a habit of writing the story chronologically rather than using the framing device of Odysseus recounting his story.The narrative justifies any choice Odysseus might've had in the matter by saying that he never stopped loving or wishing to return to his wife. Neither option is entirely by choice, Calypso significantly less so than Circe. Accidental Pornomancer: On his way home, Odysseus spends years as the bedmate of two beautiful women: the Hot Witch Circe and the sea nymph Calypso.More faithful than Odysseus himself, for that matter, although " he never gave consent in his heart." Accidental Adultery: Averted presumed-widow Penelope has no shortage of suitors - some quite forceful - while presumed-dead Odysseus is Lost at Sea, but she stays faithful for ten years.Penelope is having none of it and tries to keep them away, and Telemachus, son of Odysseus and Penelope, sets out to look for his father.īecause of its age, the poem will be the Ur-Example or Trope Maker of quite a few of the following tropes.and we can't forget to mention that the Odyssey became a word in the English lexicon for a particularly long and complex journey.ĭefinitely not to be confused with Assassin's Creed: Odyssey although the game is set in Ancient Greece and focuses on a hero going on an epic journey amidst a major conflict in Greek history much like the poem. Meanwhile, Ithaca is taken over by a large amount of suitors, all of whom are trying to win Penelope's hand in marriage. In response, Poseidon intercedes for Polyphemus and makes Odysseus's journey back to Ithaca as miserable as possible as revenge, leaving him the sole survivor. After the successful sacking of Troy, which took ten years (depicted partially in The Iliad), Odysseus earns the ire of Poseidon on his way home by blinding Polyphemus, the cyclops son of Poseidon, and boasting about it. The Odyssey focuses on Odysseus (the Latinized name Ulysses is sometimes used in English), king of Ithaca, a small island off the west coast of Greece. The original was reputedly composed by the blind poet Homer and transmitted orally until it was (according to tradition) written down and standardized at the behest of the Athenian tyrant Peisistratus in about 550 BC. The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of the epics of The Trojan Cycle and one of the oldest recorded stories. Homer, The Odyssey 1.1-10 (translation by Peter Green)
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