Odysseus’ visit to the Phaiakians.
The Odyssey is probably said to be put down in paper around 750 and 650 B.C.The Odyssey is an heroic ode(poem) and it centers the Greek champion Odysseus after his undisputed won of the Trojan War that occurred around 12th century B.C.He has home sickness and the first thing in his mind is going back to his motherland. He has aptitude and shrewd. He undergoes a lot of trials ranging from ogres to his personal security. However tempting it maybe, he brushes off the many luring things in Ithaca and at long last, he goes back to his motherland. He credits his safe journey home to Athena, his Goddess.
Odysseus travels greatly and in his journeys he meets many individuals among them the blind foreteller Tiresias, who predicts that Odysseus will not make it home alive. The foreteller predicts that Odysseus will have his demise while seafaring. Odysseus deceased mother updates him on the situation back home: as in the ruthless run-out-of -the-mill aspiring grooms and who are not only basking on his wealth but also impolite to his wife and male child. As he is progressing with the journey, it is then that he encounters with the administrators of Phaiakians (Hoena B.A 2009). They pay tribute to the prowess of his storytelling. Still continuing with his journey he encounters with Agamemnon’s ghost who was splayed by his spouse upon his return from the infamous Trojan War. While still in Phaiakians Odysseus encounters with the princess from that place by the name Nauiskaa who falls in love with him. The princess opens wide the doors of her palace and once there the Odysseus at first hides his real identity bur finally bends to the request of the Phaiakians and reveals his true self.Odysseu tells how the fighters in army suffered during the war with the Kikones after the Trojan War. Then he put it how they were lured to settle on the island that had Lotos Eaters. He put it to them how his paratroop were mauled by Kyklops Polyphemos.Another god of the wind, gave a bag of winds to Odysseus that would help him sail home, but it was opened by his gluttonous men thus made the ship to be blown to another dangerous place for the place contained ogres that preyed on the men (Laistrygonians) but they escaped with a whisker.
Still going on with their journey they encounter with another goddess, Kirke, and he lured the men in his army thereby making them become pigs. A kind god,Hermes,assists Odysseus and they win over the spell on the men and he converts them back to their original form,men.They somehow get witty as they are not lured by the charms of Seirenes.Odysseus reached Kalypso’s island only after he did survive a storm that claimed all his men with his exceptional. They had been disciplined by Zeus because they had defied his ruling that they should not lay a finger on the oxen(Hoena B.A.2009). When he did finish his story telling session, the Phaiakians donate presents to him and they give him an honorable send off in a watercraft.
At long last on reaching home, his goddess,Athena,veils Odysseus in the form of a beggar(where he checks out on his palace).His goddess, Athena, assists him and he foils the ambush that had been waylaid to him and he invents a way to put away the suitors. Only his son and the old swineherd that belonged to him, Eumaios.Veiled as a beggar, Odysseu receives a very cold reception from the run amok suitors and a handful of his former servants. Penelope has an observation of the strange coincidence on the similarity between the person who is begging and her thought to be dead husband and so she comes up with a plan that if anyone accomplishes it she will be his bride. The plan is that the suitor must twine Odysseus’ large bow and discharge it through twelve axeheads.She is clearly aware that no one else can make it except his husband, Odysseus.He took the great blow and kills the suitor Antinoos and unveiled his identity. Odysseus kills executes the other suitors in point blank with the assistance of Eumaios ,Philoitos and Telemakhos.Also his goddess play a vital role in that slaying of the suitors. Later, Odysseus pays a visit to his biological father, Laertes, who is in his extremis at a place in the exterior of the town. The relatives of the deceased suitors gang up against them. Quite unbelievably, his father slays the gang leader who happens to be the father of the slain Antinoo, the suitor. Then to prevent a blood shed, Odysseus’ goddess who gets her orders from Zeus restores peace amongst the two parties.
The story explains and exhibits the character who star in the epic .Both Penelope and Odysseus are intelligent and they uses logic in solving their problems. The Temakhos had tried to put the blame on the suitors among Antinoos but he was quick to say that Penelope had cheated on them and lured them that she would be their bride (“…after only she wove a shroud for her dead husband’s father, Laertes.The intelligent Penelope unwove each day’s progress at night…”) Odysseus is greatly inspired and influenced Athena and also the goddess Zeus. Even though conscious of the fact that he will eventually go back to his motherland ,he goes on to the point of sleeping with Kalypso and he does not reveal to her that he has got a wife back at home “makes a careful reply, flattening the goddess while simply saying that he’longs[s] for home,long[s] for the sight of home”(229).Another astonishing theme is that while Odysseus is free to have sex out of wedlock, Penelope is a decently upright person as she lets the aspiring suitors sleep in palace but basically because he doesn’t have the strength to shoo them off.
Odysseus is portrayed as a cunning leader. When his men are attacked and mauled by Polyphemos, he hatches a plan. He hews off a six-foot portion off the giants, and toughens it by holding it against fire. The next bay when the giant comes and devours to more of his soldiers, Odysseus offers it wine and it keeps on asking more and more prior to which he adds it. Before the giant sleeps, he tells it that his name is “Nohbdy”.When it sleeps, Odysseus and four of his men reheat the spike and burn the Polyphemos, his one eye. It howls painfully after being made lame and it calls its companions, the Kylopes.When they come to its aid, they ask it what it has done. It says “Nohbdy” and its fellows go away thinking it means “nobody”. Hoena, B. A. (2004). Odysseus. Minesota,U.S.A.: Capstone Press.
