Book I · Episode 1 of 3
Council of the Gods
Athena persuades Zeus to free Odysseus
Scenes
- Invocation to the Muse — Poet invokes Muse to sing of Odysseus
- Odysseus sacked the sacred city of Troy
- Wandered many lands, learning peoples’ ways
- Suffered greatly through trials at sea
- Crew perished after eating Helios’ oxen
- Poet asks Zeus’ daughter for the tale
- Zeus recalls Aegisthus — Zeus blames mortals via Aegisthus
- Calypso hopes to make Odysseus husband
- Every god but Poseidon pities Odysseus
- Poseidon feasts among distant Ethiopians
- Aegisthus wed Agamemnon’s queen, killed him
- Orestes slays Aegisthus in revenge
- Athena pleads for Odysseus — Athena begs Zeus, plans to send Hermes
- Odysseus honored the gods at Troy
- Poseidon alone still withholds his favor
- He blinded Poseidon’s son Polyphemus
- Hermes will travel to Ogygia
- Athena herself will go rouse Telemachus