Book V · Episode 3 of 5
Voyage and Shipwreck
Odysseus sails, Poseidon wrecks raft
Scenes
- Building and Launching the Raft — Odysseus builds raft, sails to Phaeacia
- Calypso arms him with an axe and an adze
- He fells twenty trees and squares the trunks
- The raft gets a mast, rudder, and sails
- Freshly bathed, he stocks wine and food
- He steers by the stars for seventeen days
- Poseidon Spots Odysseus — Poseidon spots Odysseus, rages at gods
- Poseidon returns home from the Ethiopians
- He spies Odysseus from the heights of Solyma
- He suspects the gods plotted while away
- Phaeacia is fated to end his troubles
- Poseidon vows Odysseus will suffer still more
- Poseidon Wrecks the Raft — Poseidon snaps mast, Odysseus clings
- Poseidon summons every wind with his trident
- Odysseus wishes he’d died gloriously at Troy
- A huge wave hurls him overboard
- The mast snaps and the sail scatters
- He surfaces and swims back to the wreck