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The Odyssey Summary & Study Guide Description
The Odyssey Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The Odyssey Plot Summary
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The Background to the Story
After ten years, the Trojan War is over and the Achaeans head for home-with varying results. Some, like Nestor, come home quickly to find things pretty much as they left them. Others, like Agamemnon, arrive home to find things considerably changed. Still others, like Menelaus, wander for a time but eventually return home safely and little the worse for wear.
Odysseus, on the other hand, has been having no end of trouble getting home. As the story opens, we find ourselves in the tenth year since the end of the war, a full 20 years since Odysseus first left his home and wife Penelope to sail off for Troy with the rest of the Achaean forces.
Book 1: Athena Inspires Telemachus
In a council of the gods, Athena asks her father Zeus why Odysseus is still stuck on Calypso's island ten years after the end of the war. Zeus responds that...
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