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Well, honey, Odysseus finally left Calypso's island after being held captive for seven years. He built a raft and sailed away, but then Poseidon had to stir up some trouble because, well, gods gotta god. Odysseus faced storms, shipwrecks, and a whole lot of drama before finally making it back home to his wife, Penelope, who was probably ready to give him a piece of her mind.
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MaxinePoseidon spots him and sends a storm at him. He clings onto the wreckage of his raft, and accepts the gift of the veil of a sea nymph called Ino, but interprets it as a trick of the gods at first. He is eventually swept to the land of the Phaeicians, where he prays to the river god for entry. He is let in and throws the veil back into the sea for Ino. He then falls asleep naked and filthy behind a bush until Nausicaa arrives.
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How many men did Odysseus have left when he arrived home?
None. They all were killed, but one man was left on the island of the cyclopes, who is mentioned in the Aeneid.
How was Odysseus's escape an insult polyphemos?
odysseus continually boasted as he left the island of the cyclopes that his name was odysseus and he was from ithica and that he had beaten polyphemos at his own game. this pissed off polyphemos and made him pray to his daddy poseidon that odysseus would never make it home.
In the Odyssey book 9 what does Odysseus do when he have left the island of the cyclops?
After they leave the cyclopes' island, Odysseus takes his ships back to the neighboring island that they stopped at before (the one with really good land for farming but no seeds have been planted and lots of goats). They sacrifice the goat that Odysseus used to escape- Polyphemus' biggest ram. They sacrifice it to Zeus, but Zeus ignores it.
In The Odyssey Odysseus left Penelope bound for what city?
Odysseus left Penelope bound for Troy.
How did Odysseus' mother?
She died after Odysseus left for Troy from greef of her son.
