1. “With the Bible and Shakespeare, the Homeric poems are the best training for life. There is no good quality that they lack: manliness, courage, reverence for old age and the hospitable hearth; justice, piety, pity, a brave attitude toward life and death, are all conspicuous in Homer.” --Andrew Lang

2. Odyssey 9-12 Odysseus tells the Phaeacians tales of his travels Cave of Polyphemus the Cyclops

3. Book IX covers Blinding of Polyphemus the Cyclops Cicones in Thrace Lotus Eaters Cyclopes

4. Lotus- Eaters Odysseus’ men ate the lotus and no longer thought of home—or anything else but eating more lotus. Odysseus had to drag them to the ships.

5. Land of the Cyclopes - lawless The episode highlights Odysseus’ cleverness. He gives Polyphemus a fake name, “No-one” (Ουδεις). But as his ships make their escape, he shouts his real name to the Cyclops – and Polyphemus calls on his father, Poseidon, to curse him.

6. Book X Aeolus, Keeper of the Winds Laestrygonians Circe, the witch

7. Aeolos, keeper of the winds

8. Shore of Laestrygonians

9. Circe

11. Odysseus overcomes Circe with Hermes help. He stays with her as her lover for one year. Circe advises him to travel to the underworld to talk with Tiresias for help getting home.

12. Book XI Visit to Hades to Speak with Tiresias

13. Approach of the dead to the pool of blood.

14. Ghosts drink from the blood of Odysseus’ sacrifice.

15. Book XII Back to Circe Sirens Scylla & Charybdis Cattle of the Sun Scylla & Charybdis Isle of Calypso

16. Sirens

18. Odysseus and the Sirens, Herbert James Draper 1909

19. Scylla and Charybdis

20. Stealing cattle of the sun

21. Legend: 1 Troy 9 Underworld2 Cicones 10 Sirens3 Lotus Eaters 11 Scylla and Charybdis4 Cyclopes 12 Helios5 King Aiolos 13 Calypso6 King Aiolos (again) 14 Phaeacians7 Laistryonians 15 Ithaca8 Circe Map of Odysseus’ travels in the Mediterranean