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Pamela Okoli Mrs. Browder English 1 May 11, 2013 Poseidon

Zeus Hyperion

3

Hades

4

Polyphemus Helen

Charybdis

Aphrodite Hermes

Hephaestus

1

5

Sirens

Athena

Scylla 6

7 2

9 8

Tiresias

Odysseus 12

Penelope Menelaus

Calypso

11

Telemachus Paris

Achilles 10

14 13

Circe

Hades

Zeus

Hyperion

Polyphemus

Menelaus

Poseidon

Calypso

Helen

Charybdis

Paris

Hephaestus

Sirens

Telemachus

Scylla

Achilles

Athena

Tiresias

Hermes

Aphrodite

Odysseus

Penelope

Circe

Purple- Siblings

1.Paris stole Helen

8.Tiresias gives Odysseus advice

Green – Married

2.Athena blinded Tiresias then compensated with the gift of prophecy 9.Scylla and Circe are rivals

Orange – Children

3.Hyperion disposed of by Zeus

10.Odysseus sleeps with Circe and gets her help

Blue –* Other

4.Poseidon slept with Scylla

11.Odysseus speaks to Achilles in Underworld

5. Polyphemus attacked by Odysseus

12.Calypso slept with Odysseus and gave him help

6. Odysseus attacked by Scylla

13.Telemachus slept with Circe

7. Sirens tried to tempt Odysseus

14.Paris killed Achilles

Pamela Okoli Mrs. Browder English 1 May 11, 2013

Odysseus Odysseus’s return and departure determine and affect the lives of many but especially his family. His wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, build their lives on the withdrawal of Odysseus. Telemachus was only a mere infant at the time Odysseus left for Troy. He grew up absent of his father for Odysseus was at war for 10 years and lost at sea for another 10 years. Telemachus at first has no longer believes that his father will return but yet wishes for his presence. ” But now, no use, he’s died a wretched death. No comfort’s left for us…not even if someone, somewhere, says he’s coming home. The day of his return will never dawn.” (Odyssey Chapter 1) Telemachus though only child of noble son of Laertes Odysseus, in the beginning Telemachus is nothing more than a child crying over his misfortune, living in the shadow of his great father, instead of fighting against the suitors and getting his mourning mother put back together. He lacks the authority and control his father has to take back his father’s estate. He doesn’t hold the assertiveness of his absent father and is far from his father as a person but later changes with the help of Athena. Athena comes and talks to Telemachus and suggests he start getting rid of the suitors. She also gives the information that Odysseus, the father he thought no longer living, is indeed alive and lost at sea, trying to find a way back home. Athena gives Telemachus some encouragement to be the prince he is and he immediately starts improving his act. With Telemachus’s new found courage he speaks to the suitors telling them to leave his father’s house. Telemachus then sets sail without the permission of the suitors. Throughout Telemachus’s journey to find his father he grows more like him and more like the man he was born to be. He more self assured and has an active mind but fails to reach the skill level of his father, noble son of Laertes. He makes a rather large mistake changing the plans for defeating the

Pamela Okoli Mrs. Browder English 1 May 11, 2013

suitors; although his father made his fair share of mistakes he is much more careful than Telemachus. Telemachus also lacks the arrogant, boastful manner of his father. Though Telemachus preservers and is determine he is never quite up to the level of his father. Telemachus though does show great growth and is more like his father in ways of sensitivity and socialization, giving hope that he may be on his way to being like his father. Without the journey of finding his lost father he would have been the same man he was in the beginning.