A Table of
Homer's The Odyssey
(by Chen Chi-szu)
| Order | Standard Term | Book | Content | Space/Time and Duration | External Temptation | Internal Weakness | Helpers or Resources | |
| 1 | The
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IX.39-61 | Attacking the Kikonian | Ismaros | arete: economical | |||
| 2 | IX.82-104 | The Lotus-Eater | (coast of Lidya, Africa) | easy life | forgetfulness | determination | ||
| 3 | I.69, II.19 IX |
Polyphemos, the Cyclop | (southern Sicily) | pride (arete) | “nobody” | |||
| 4 | X.1 | Aiolos, the floating island and the wind-bag | Aiolia (between Ionian Sea and Sicilian Sea) | Odysseus: sloth Companions: greed |
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| 5 | X. 80-182 | Laistrygones, the cannibal people | Lamos, Telepylos (between Corsica and Sardinia) |
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| 6 | X, VIII.448 IX.31 |
Circe | Aeaea (east coast of Italy)--1 year | Magic, easy life | Hermes | |||
| 7 | XI | The Land of the Death | Deep Sea Journey |
Circe, Teirecias: reflection of the past | ||||
| 8 | XII | The Siren | (east coast of Italy) | zest for total knowledge of the world | Circe, prudence, acceptacnce of human limitation | |||
| 9 | XII | Scylla and Charybdis | (The strait of Messina, between Southern Italy and Sicily) | |||||
| 10 | XII, 260-446 | Cattle of the Sun | the island Thrinakia | lack of respect to god (Helio); gluttony | ||||
| 11 | Nostoi (The Homecoming of Odysseus) Book 5~87, B13 ll1-187, told by the narrator |
I.14, 52 V. 14-268 |
Kalypso | Ogyaia (believed to at Gozo, northern coast of Malta)--7 years | Magic, easy life and logevity | Hermes | ||
| 12 | VI., VII, VIII | Naucikas and the Phaikians | Scheria (Korkyra, to the north of Ithaca) | |||||
| 13 | The Telemachy Book 1~4, told by the narrator |
I-IV | The Telemachy | Ithaka-->Pylos-->Sparta | Athene | |||
| 14 | Odysseus at Ithaca Book 13 l187~ Book24, told by the narrator |
XIII--XXIII | Revenge | Ithaka
(sea shore) --＞ Eumaios’s home --＞Odysseus’s own house --＞ Laertes ’s farm |
Athene | |||
| 15 | XXIV | Reconciliation | Hell | |||||