History a brief resume
At the end of the war of Troy, our hero Ulysses or Odysseus begin his journey home, but in his
way stands the next stuff:
1. The Cyclops: One eyed giant monster, son of Poseidon (That is the cause of his rage) who eats up many of the brave
friends of the hero, for dinner (brochette style). Odysseus persuade him to take as a dessert, a very strong wine and meanwhile te drunk monster sleeps, he attacks him with a stake in his only eye and turn him blind. The monster calls his family and friends but the hero has telled him that his name was “Nobody”, and when the crowd ask him what happens the jackass Cyclops tells them “Nobody is hurting me” , so the crowd think that the dumb is ill and do nothing. 2. Caribdis y Escila: Sea Monsters who destroyed ships.
3. Sirens: Magic singers, who used to call the foolish navigants and made them sink in the dangerous rocks. Everybody blocks their eras with serum, but the hero wanted to hear them, but wisely he chooses to be tied up in a stick so nothing happens.
4. Calypso: Immortal nymph who falls in love for the hero and tries to stop him with her charms and even offers him immortality, at the end Zeus himself commands her to leave him go.
5. Circe: Sorcerer daughter of the sun, turn the foes into animals with a magical honey cake, but thanks to de advices of Athena and to the “golden garlic” that Hermes
gives to the hero, he gets immune to the honey cake and when he takes his sword to kill the witch, she pleads for her life over his knees, then turns the animals into humans, falls in love for the hero and at the end very sad she says goodbye giving them many gifts.
6. Eolo’s winds: Eolo (god of the winds) gives the hero a bag with many winds, for help him to arrive at home very fast. Meanwhile the hero was sleeping, his curious friends, thinking that in the bag were gold open the bag and the wind goes wild carring the ship very, very far, just when Itaca was at sight.
7. Lotus Eaters: They arrive to an Island in which the people eated a extrange variety of lotus, who make them forget their travels and live in an illusory world. Seeing the risks the hero and his mans flees from there.
8. Tiresias: Following Circe´s advices, Ulisse have to go to consult to a fortuneteller called Tiresias, little detail, he is dead, In exchange of sheep’s blood the fortuneteller tells him that in order to calm down the rage of Poseidon he must go to a place in which its habitants never had heard about the sea, an then kill hundred cows (Hecatomb) in honor of the god.
9. The cows of the sun: Starving the friends in another island, eat up the
holly cows of the sun an die horribly when the cows goes back to life inside the stomachs of the mens.
10. Finally when nothing but his skin, the hero reaches the kingdom of the king, friend of Ulisse, gives parties and games in his honor and after hearing his long tale, the king gets so moved that lend him one of his ships and mens to carry him home.
11. Meanwhile in home: And meanwhile the hero wandered all over the wide sea, his house was taken by the young nobles, whom taking him for dead, chase his wife Penelope in order to gain the crown trough this alliance. Penelope delay them asking to knit a funerary sheet for her husband and then get married. The clever woman knitted all day, but passed all night undoing the work and finding out as a revenge they invade the house of the queen and gives never-ending parties eating the animals of the queen an even insults Ulysses’ son.
12. The end: The hero is turned by Athena into a beggar and in his home is bad treated by the pretenders, but he is discovered by Euriclea by a scar in his leg done when he was a kid, by the dog, and his son. Finally the queen proposes to marry with the man who can tense the arc of his husband, of course the pretenders fails, then the beggar ask for a chance and for everybody’s surprise tenses the arceasily and the first arrows kills the first pretender. Then begins the ordeal and not even one escapes the lion’s rage of the hero. When his wife awakes from a magical sleep, Athena turns the beggar into his true good-looking self. First, Penelope don’t believe a thing and tells him that she will bring his bed to the garden, so he can sleep. The bed was maded from a tree that both of them has promised never to cut, so Ulisse gets mad, but after a while he finds that was only a test of his wife to confirm his comeback. Then they hold each others and well, you know. Happy ending?, yes, but you have to remember that the hero just killed all the young nobles and their families could want revenge. Besides there is still the matter of the “Hecatomb”, so there was stuff for Odyssey part II.