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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.