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The beautiful Penelope and her mother

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2 The Hideous and Frightful Skylla!

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5 Live shots of Odysseus and the “Trojan Horse”

6 Behind the story of Odysseus and Circe Did he cheat or was he tricked?

7 What’s in and what’s OUT! Loin cloth or Suit of Armor………… what’s your style?

9 Ithica21 Get a sneak peek at our new store! 3 The Trojan Horse

The huge “horse” was used to trick the Greeks in to let- The horse could hold up ting the Trojans inside their 30 to 40 men at one time. fort.

One of Odysseus’ men doing a last

minute inspection of the horse before they invade the Greeks. Odysseus…….DID HE CHEAT?!!!!!! Odysseus and his crew went ashore the island of Aiaia desperate to find food and water. Odysseus sent twenty-three of his men to explore the island but only one them returned. As the men walked on the beach they could hear sweet singing from Circe’s home in a forest glen. Wild lions and wolves came, wagging their tails, to greet the Odysseus’s men. They were charmed by her beauty and drank the potions she offered as refreshment. As Circe’s vile drugs took effect, the once strong men began to change shape and were soon fully transformed into swine. Circe herded them into pens and threw pig food at them and on the ground in front of them. The only survivor, Eurylochos, ran back to Odysseus and begged that they set sail immediately. He told the story of the evil goddess and how they would all be turned into swine if they dared to stay on that dangerous island. Odysseus took him for a coward and almost killed him on sight. Odysseus was not afraid. He would not leave his men as pigs and he would not risk any of the other men in a fight with Circe. Odysseus went to Circe’s palace alone. Along the trail, Odysseus met Hermes, the messenger God, in the disguise of a young man. Hermes told Odysseus that he could entrap Circe and free his companions if he obeyed the gods orders. Hermes reached down and pulled a plant called “moly” from the ground and explained that mere mortals found it difficult to dig-up but he, as a god, could do all things. Odysseus took the supposedly “good medicine” and went boldly into Circe’s house. She welcomed him as another victim and gave him her vile potions but the “good medicine” gave Odysseus protection. When Circe thought the drugs had taken effect, she struck Odysseus with her wand. The wand was supposed to turn him into a pig but Odysseus drew his sword and sprang upon her. The astonished Circe surrendered instantly. She released the twenty-two pig- men and ceremoniously anointed them with another one of her potions. The men were restored to their original forms but they were taller and more handsome than before they had been transformed To show her good- faith, Circe opened her doors to the dispirited sailors and gave them every comfort she could offer. After the entire crew had been rested and nourished, Circe told Odysseus that his journey would now take him to the House of Hades (lord of the Underworld). He must consult with the soul of the seer, Teiresias the Theban, to find out how he may finally appease Poseidon ,lord of the Sea, and return to his home. After seeing the soul of Teiresias the Theban, Odysseus returned to Aiaia. Circe bid him a final goodbye and told him how to safely sail past the island of the Sirens, the six headed Skylla and the monster Charybdis (Charybdis). Circe

The evil and sly Circe playing catch on her sacred island with Odysseus

While Athena tans in the sun (Keeping an eye on her charge).

Athena…. Female Dog or Not? You Decide.

From reading the gossip, you can begin to form an image of Athena's relationships with her peers, the other gods and goddesses of ancient Greece. Through the interactions between this goddess and other supreme beings, you can witness Athena's beliefs that she is superior to the other. Athena assumes leadership by taking action, making decisions, and intervening for good and evil. Athena begs Zeus to allow her to give Odysseus aid on his passage home, against the efforts and wishes of Poseidon, the Sea god . She advises him to leave the matter of the outcome of the Trojan war to Zeus. However, Athena continues to fight for the Achaean side . Odysseus also portrays this goddess of wisdom as mimicking and making fun of Aphrodite when she had gotten struck in the wrist by Diomedes. She tells Zeus not to let Aphrodite onto the battlefield anymore. However, when immortals will help her achieve what she is yearning for, she works beside them suppressing her superiority. For example, she works almost almost nonstop with Hera to plot the total destruction of Troy. She also helps Apollo with the duel between Ajax and Hector. One of Athena's works that is thought to be one of her greatest of superiority and dominance is the myth of how the Trojan war came to be. One is able to see her view of herself as "the fairest" in this story.

At hena The evil Athena falling to her death while trying to escape Odysseus and his men.

Odysseus and his men running off their ship to catch Athena.

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CharybdisCharybdis

Once a beautiful naiad and the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. She takes form as a huge bladder of a creature whose face was all mouth and whose arms and legs were flippers and who swallows huge amounts of water three times a day before belching them back out again, creating whirlpools. In some variations of the tale, Charybdis is just a large whirlpool rather than a sea monster. Charybdis was very loyal to her father in his endless feud with Zeus. She won so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster. The myth has Charybdis lying on one side of a blue, narrow channel of water. On the other side of the strait was Scylla, another sea-monster. The phrase "between Scylla and Charybdis" has come to mean being in a state where one is between two dangers and moving away from one will cause you to come closer to the other. "Between Scylla and Charybdis" is the origin of the phrase "between the rock and the whirlpool" (the rock upon which Scylla dwelt and the whirlpool of Charybdis) and may also be the genesis of the phrase "between a rock and a hard place."