The Odyssey

The Odyssey is a book written in Ancient Greece by a man named Homer. I just read the book, so I am going to tell you the basic outline.

- Odysseus is coming back from a war in Troy.
-Odysseus is thrown of track and finds some people addicted to eating Lotus flowers.
-Odysseus is captured by and escapes from the Cyclops.
-He lands on an island with people called Lastrygonians who crush all of Odysseus's ships except one.
-Circe, the witch, turns Odysseus's men into pigs. Hermes helps Odysseus make his men human again after a year.
-Odysseus goes to the Underworld. receives a message from a dead person and finds out that his mother is dead.
-Odysseus survives the sirens and monsters Scylla and Charybdis with the loss of only a few men.
-Odysseus's men eat the God Helios's cattle and Zeus strikes their ship with a lightning bolt.
-Odysseus, the only survivor from the ship, lands on Calypso's island, who keeps him captive for 7 years.
- Meanwhile, Odysseus's son searches for news of his father, while Odysseus's wife is getting swamped with people who want to marry her.
-Zeus commands Calypso to let Odysseus go.
-Odysseus comes home, meets his son, shoots an arrow, kills all his wife's suitors and is reunited with his family.
-The townspeople of Odysseus's homeland form a mob and try to avenge the suitors, but Athena stops them.
-Athena tells Odysseus to maintain peace.
-Odysseus obeys.

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LUKE 11:35

See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

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JAMES 5:12
Above all, my brothers, do not swear- not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. Let your "Yes" mean yes and "No" no, or you will be condemned.

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1 JOHN 5:3

This is love for God: to obey his commands and his commands are not burdenssome.

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Luke 15:10
In the same way, i tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

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I want to thank and to tell about the books I use, to give them credit.

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Immortal Words by Terry Breverton

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1,000 Years, 1,000 People by Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, Henry Gottlieb, Barbara Bowers, and Brent Bowers.

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National Geographic's Visual History of the World

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ROMANS 8:28

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

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