Odessey (book I-IV) summary + characters

- Starts off with the narrator bragging about Odysseus, the main character of the Odyssey “the man skill in all ways”

- Odysseus is in the island of Ogygia, trapped by the goddess Calypso who is in love with him and doesn’t let him go home. ***This all takes place because Poseidon is mad with Odysseus b/c he killed this son the Cyclops****

- Mean while in Ithaca, many suitors are trying to marry Penelope and take over this estate, thinking he is dead.

- Athena goes to Zeus to ask if she could liberate Odysseus from Kalypso’s island. Zeus refuses to give her this consent because Poseidon has the right to be mad, after all Odysseus did kill Poseidon’s son.

- She tells Telemachus to call together all suitors and advise of their banishment from the estate due to the prediction of Mentes that Odysseus is still alive, she also tells Telemachus he must make a journey to Pylos and Sparta to look for his father.

- Penelope said that she was going to marry someone as soon as she finished weaving a burial shroud for her elderly father in law, Laertes.

- Telemachus gives notice to the suitors that he will hold an assembly the next day and order them to leave Odysseus estate.

- Agamenon and Menelaus were 2 brothers who held the war, Odysseus stayed with Agamenon and Nestor came back to Greece with Menelaus, and hasn’t heard anything from Odysseus since then.

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