Status Updates From The Odyssey: A Modern Retel...

Odysseus and his son fought the suitors and killed them all. HEA

With Athena's advice, she transformed Odysseus into the old man to go to Eumaeus, his loyal enslaved man waiting for Telemachus. Then, she would tell Telemachus to go to Eumaeus bc the suitors planned to ambush him while he came home.

Phaeacians helped Odysseus going back to Ithaca, but it made Poseidon mad bc he didn't want him to live and go back home.
- After sending Odysseus home, Poseidon cursed the ship turning it to a rock.

With Zeus's curse, his ship and crewmembers were destroyed and only he was the only survivor. Nearly sunken to the seabed, he hold the fig tree for his dear life.
- Then, that's the part where he went to Ogygia being found by Calypso.

He was told not to kill the herds of cattle or sheep in Thrinacia where Helios, god of the sun were.
- His crew ignored his warning bc they lived on the island for too long and they were hungry.
- Helios told Zeus begging for a revenge. Even though, he helped Athena leading him to Ithaca.

They sailed the ship passed the Sirens. Odysseus was tied to the mast bc he wanted to hear the Siren's song, then, he went facing with Charybdis and Scylla the sea monsters.

They sailed back to Aiaia to burn and bury Elpanor.
- Circe told him to sail to Sirens bc it's the way to go home.

They went to the underworld through the ritual of libation.
- Odysseus met Tiresias, the prophet. He told him his prophecy and his future.
- He, later, met with his mother and comrades.
- I mean Archilles and Patroclus are sth.

Circe told Odysseus to go to the Underworld for sailing top Ithaca.

Then, they reached the Aiaia, the island where Circe, the witch, was living.
- He split with Eurylochus, his crew, searching the island. He found Circe and she drunk his crew and turned them in to pigs. Eurylochus came back and told Odysseus and he came to find her.
- With the help of Hermes giving him mysterious Moly, Odysseus was safe from the effect from her potion.
- They live with Circe for a year.

They went back to the Aeolia again, but they weren't welcomed anymore bc they were cursed.
- They sailed to Laestrygonia where the man-eating giants are, and they ate his crew leaving only Odysseus's ship and 44 crewmembers.

They sailed to Aeolia and lived there for days. Before nearly leaving, Aeolus, the king gave him the bag carrying the wind that would make their ship sailing home safely. However, with the envy of his crew wondering why he's always given treasure without knowing anything, he opened the bag letting the wind out and the shipped went out of sight of the Ithaca.

He dared him to tell everyone that Odysseus stabbed his eye and Polyphemus told Poseidon to cursed them.

This is great.
- While being trapped inside the Polyphemus's cave, he planned to sharpen Polyphemus' stick to stab to his eye. He told him that his name was Nobody. (that's clever.)
- Being stabbed to the eye, Polyphemus couldn't find Odysseus and his men bc they hid under the ram's wool.
- They came back to the ship and Odysseus taunted him provoking him that his name was Odysseus.

Then, they went to the Cyclopes' land where the Polyphemus, the one-eyed giant living as a shepherd there. Odysseus came to his cave with his men and ate his food, then Polyphemus spotted them and ate some of his crew.
- Unfortunately, Polyphemus was Poseidon's son. (hahaha, always in greek myth)

After that, they were cursed with a storm by Zeus and reached the Isamarus. and found the Lotus-Eaters, the fruit that made his crew forgot everything.

At the Phaeacian, he told the story of the Trojan war.
- Archilles killed Hector because his friend, Patroclus was killed. Then, Prince Paris killed Archilles.
- With Odysseus' trick of the Trojan horse, his crew burned the whole Troy.

He reached the Phaeacians, and they welcomed him without knowing him as Odysseus.

Odysseus couldn't come back to Ithaca after went to war at Troy.
- Athena helped Telemachus to find Odysseus, his father.
- Hermes went talking to Calypso who kept him to herself for 7 years.
- Odysseus was freed from Ogygia with a raft, but he couldn't reach his home because Poseidon was mad.