The Odyssey
Retold by:
Renae S.
A guy running through the woods named Odysseus. He went to his wife because she is having a baby. She has a boy. They live in Ithaca. Troy was coming to battle, Greece. Odysseus is the King of Ithaca.
Odysseus is going to war and he is going to Troy. They named him Telemachus. He is saying good-bye to Penelope his wife. They are heading to Troy. The gods of the sea and sky lead him to Troy.
He talks to Athena the goddess of wisdom, and she is a best friend of Odysseus. She wants him to beat the Troys. They are in Troy and they are fighting. Thousands of men died while fighting. They dumped hot tar on some of the warriors and they died.
Odysseus’s mother is watching for them out of her window. Odysseus knows a way to get to Troy. They (Troys) find a Trojan horse and Odysseus and all the warriors are in there. The Troys don’t know that.
The fortune teller, Halisthernes, gets eaten by a sea serpent. They are getting out of the wooden horse. They are inside the room and the people wake up that was guarding it and a fight starts.
Odysseus is talking to the god of the sea and sky saying he conquered Troy. Poseidon the god of the sea, and enemy of Odysseus is talking to him saying he helped Odysseus beat Troy.
Odysseus’s mother, Anticleia, says Odysseus is dead to Penelope. He really isn’t, though. She is laying in the ocean saying, ”Return to me Odysseus. Return to me.”
Odysseus’s ship sees land. They eat some CHEESE. They go in this cave they find and nobody’s in there. They find a big huge footprint in the dirt on the land. They see Polyphemus the Cyclops and son of Poseidon. He is eating one of the crewmembers.
They give him some wine and play a song. He goes to sleep. They are trying to escape. They stab him in the eye and escape. Polyphemus throw a rock at them and just barely misses them.
Odysseus meets Aeolus, the beeper of the winds, is telling him that he can help them. He fills a water bottle full of wind and in 9 days open it and it will blow him home. They leave and he gives them a boost of wind to help them.
He tells himself that soon he will be home with his wife and kids soon. They can see Ithaca. They are blowing themselves back home. A lot of crewmembers are being blown away. It didn’t blow them back. They can still see Ithaca, but it also seems so far away.
They are shipwrecked on an island and they can barely buy food. They don’t know what the island is.
They find a little bit of food. They see a pig and they get it some of them get captured and she changed them into pigs. Circe is the witch who did that. She also changes them into all sorts of animals. One of them is a chimp and it helps Odysseus. Odysseus is climbing a rock.
The gods messenger helped him. He gave him this plant that will keep him man when he drinks the potion. This will catch her off guard. The only way she will turn his men into men is take her to bed.
Telemachus is trying to string Odysseus’s bow. His mother want to go in the sea to join Odysseus because she thinks he’s dead. Penelope doesn’t want her too. His mother kills herself.
He’s been with Circe for five years because time is different in her palace. His ship is buried in five years of tide and he is trying to dig it up. He hasn’t seen his wife, child, and home for sixteen years.
He has to go to the underworld to know how to get home. He is going to look for Teiresias a blind prophet. Telemachus wants to find his father. People are saying he’s dead. He doesn’t believe it.
They are going to the underworld. They went through the fire like it is a gate. He meets the underworld gods. He is carrying a sacrifice that is a ram. He sees Teiresias. He also sees his mother and she tells him she killed herself. She also tells him the way to go and get back to Penelope as quick as he can.
He’s back on the ship. Penelope gets sheep, pigs, jugglers, and musicians from a king. She promised Odysseus that when Telemachus is a man she will remarry.
They are going into a cave. Some monster just spit blood and flesh on them. They gave a goat. The monster is Scylla, the six headed sea monster, he gets to eat six crew members. Charybdis the whirlpool ate the rest of the crew.
Odysseus is floating in the water all alone. He reaches the island of Calypso, the goddess. He has a bad dream and he awakes. He is captive on the island. Telemachus wants these guys that are staying to wait for Penelope to pick one as a husband. He wants them to leave.
He sees a ship and tries to swim to it. Calypso has her maids go get him.
Telemachus meets Athena. She tells him to go to Sparta. She makes a wind for him to start his journey. The gods messenger tells Calypso to let Odysseus to go.
Calypso tells him to go and he is making a raft to go on. One of the guys that is staying there wants to marry Penelope, but he is waiting for Odysseus’s return. Calypso is trying to get him to stay at her island.
Telemachus reaches Sparta and meets the king. The king says his father will never reach home again Telemachus doesn’t believe him. He says that he must return home to fight for him and his father.
Odysseus is in the ocean, and he is asking Poseidon what he wants. He says his goal is not to kill Odysseus.
He is at the palace of King Phaeacia. He gave him a ship full of gifts and people to sail the ships. He has the same dream he had at the palace of Calypso. He wakes up.
He is back in Ithaca and he meets Eumaeus the swine herder. He is at the place where his child was born. He sees his son Telemachus and he doesn’t believe it. Telemachus believes him now and they hug each other. He wants to see Penelope.
Telemachus wants to kill the guys at the castle. Athena is telling Odysseus he is scared that Penelope has been unloyal to him. Also to go back to the castle and seek the answers to the questions he has.
Telemachus is back home at the castle and he has a beard so that means he is a man. Odysseus is disguised as a beggar in the castle. Antinous wants to kill Telemachus in the ring. Telemachus is in the ring and he has blood all over his face and chest. This nurse who raised Odysseus recognized a scar on her foot.
Penelope will hold a contest to find her new husband. Odysseus tells her that he is still alive but Penelope says if only that was true. The contest is to string the bow of Odysseus and shoot an arrow through all small circles. They say it can not be done.
The beggar or, Odysseus, shoots the arrow and makes it. Odysseus tells everyone the truth and tells Telemachus to take out his anger. So he kills all of them. Antinous says what crime have we committed? They have tried to take Odysseus’s world.
Antinous tries to kill Odysseus. He doesn’t kill him. Odysseus kills him but on accident kills Melanto.
Penelope finally sees Odysseus for the first time in twenty years. He is at the palace of King Phaeacia. He gave him a ship full of gifts and people to sail the ships. He has the same dream he had at the palace of Calypso. He wakes up.
He is back in Ithaca and he meets Eumaeus the swine herder. He is at the place where his child was born. He sees his son Telemachus and he doesn’t believe it. Telemachus believes him now and they hug each other. He wants to see Penelope.
Telemachus wants to kill the guys at the castle. Athena is telling Odysseus he is scared that Penelope has been unloyal to him. Also to go back to the castle and seek the answers to the questions he has.
Telemachus is back home at the castle and he has a beard so that means he is a man. Odysseus is disguised as a beggar in the castle. Antinous wants to kill Telemachus in the ring. Telemachus is in the ring and he has blood all over his face and chest. This nurse who raised Odysseus recognized a scar on her foot.
Penelope will hold a contest to find her new husband. Odysseus tells her that he is still alive but Penelope says if only that was true. The contest is to string the bow of Odysseus and shoot an arrow through all small circles. They say it can not be done.
The beggar or, Odysseus, shoots the arrow and makes it. Odysseus tells everyone the truth and tells Telemachus to take out his anger. So he kills all of them. Antinous says what crime have we committed? They have tried to take Odysseus’s world.
Antinous tries to kill Odysseus. He doesn’t kill him. Odysseus kills him but on accident kills Melanto.
Penelope finally sees Odysseus for the first time in twenty years.