Chapter 1
Hope for Mankind
The population of the earth
Chapter 2
The Ascent of the Olympian Gods
In the beginningWar against the Titans
War against the Giants
Zeus and his brothers
Chapter 3
The Gods of Olympus
Zeus the kingHera
Hestia
Demeter
Aphrodite
Ares
Hephaestus
Athena
Apollo
Artemis
Hermes
Dionysus
Chapter 4
The Age of Heroes
The floodThe line of Deucalion
The Argonauts and the Golden Fleece
The Calydonian Boar Hunt
Io and the Daniads
Perseus adn the Gorgon
Bellerophon
Chapter 5
Thebes in the Age of Heroes
Cadmus, Europa, and the Foundation of ThebesOedipus
The seven against Thebes
Chapter 6
Mycenae in the Age of Heroes
The curse of the House of AtreusAtreus and Thyestes
The end of the Atreid curse
Chapter 7
Athens in the Age of Heroes
The first Athenian kingsThe Labours of Theseus
Theseus and the Minotaur
King Theseus
Chapter 8
Heracles
The birth of HeraclesThe twelve labours of Hercules
Heracles the king-maker
Heracles becomes a god
Chapter 9
The Trojan War
The marriage of Peleus and ThetisThe judgement of Paris
The Abduction of Helen
The Greeks prepare for war
The Greek landing
Achilles withdraws
Agamemnon's dream
Menelaus and Paris
Diomedes' day of glory
Hector triumphant
Envoys and spies
The Assault on the ships
The deception of Zeus
The death of Patrochus
The return of Achilles
The death of Hector
Two funerals
The death of Achilles
The wooden horse
The fall of Troy
Chapter 10
Odysseus' Return
Trouble on IthacaTelemachs' journey
Odysseus on Scheria
The Cyclops Polphemus
Aeolus, the Laestrygonians, and Circe
The underworld
Dangers at sea
The cattle of the sun
Odysseus reaches Ithaca
At the swineherd's hut
In the palace
Penelope meets the beggar
Vengeance
Reuninon
Chapter 11
Pandora
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Odysseus on Scheria
Island of Scheria
- Phaeacians
- King Alcinous
- Queen Arete
- Nausicaa, the royal princess
- disguised herself as a childhood companion and convinced Nausicaa to go to the river (where Odysseus was)
Ithaca: one of the seven Ionian islands; off the west coast of Greece; midway between northernmost island and southernmost island.
He had just spent seven years as a captive of Calypso.
Scheria: most likely, Corfu
- within 68 miles of Ithaca
- Thucydides: Corcyra, in Peloponnesian War
The Phaeacians in the Odyssey did not know Odysseus (although they knew of him, as evidenced by the tales of Demodocus), so they called him a "stranger."
Odysseus however was the king of the majority of the Ionian Islands, not only of Ithaca, but also of Cephallenia, Neritum, Crocylea, Aegilips, Same and Zacynthus so if Scheria was Corfu, it would be surprising that the citizens of one of the Ionian Islands did not know Odysseus.
Kerkyra: Greek isle also known as Corfu in English; Kerkyra is just off shore Greece, and very, very close to Ithaca.
Some suggest Scheria was Crete.
From wiki, the seven islands:
- Kerkyra (Corfu in English)
- Paxi (Paxos)
- Lefkada (Lefkas)
- Ithaki (Ithaca)
- Kefalonia (Cefalonia)
- Zakynthos (Zante)
- Kythira (Cythera) -- southernmost; off the tip of the Peloponnese; not part of the region of the Ionian Islands; included in the region of Attica.
Not related to Ionia, an Anatolian region.
As a distinct historic region they date to the centuries-long Venetian rule, which preserved them from becoming part of the Ottoman Empire, and created a distinct cultural identity with many Italian influences. The Ionian Islands became part of the modern Greek state in 1864. Administratively today they belong to the Ionian Islands Region except for Kythera, which belongs to the Attica Region.
Nausicaa leads Odysseus to the royal palace.
King Alcinous agrees to outfit a ship to get Odysseus back to Ithaca.
Key point: the bard at the palace of Alcinous, Demodocus, told the story of the wooden horse, and also stated that the plan was hatched by Odysseus.
Odysseus then tells King Alcinous of his past.
- the cyclops Polyphemus
- Aeolus, the Laestrygoians, and Circe
- the Underworld
- dangers at sea
Apparently they disembarked / set sail / "cast off with the chariot of the sun descending in the west."
"While it was still dark, they reached Ithaca and beached in a remote cove."
Barely a night's journey.
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Io
Ionian Sea: named for Io, who swam across the Ionian sea, from Greece to Italy
Athens: in the care of Athene
Argos: in the care of Hera; known for its horses and cattle
Father: Inachus, first king of Argos, after whom the Inachus River was named; most ancient god or hero of Argos; one of the river gods, all sons of Titans Oceanus and Tethys, part of the pre-Olympian or "Pelasgian" myths.
Io: born from Inachus alone;
Wife of Inachus as time Io was born, also his sister: Oceanid nymph Melia, daughter of Oceanus
Zeus / Io
transforms Io into a heifer to deceive Hera
Hera asks for the heifer which Zeus gives her
Hera sends 100-eyed Argus Panoptes to watch / protect Io from Zeus
Zeus sends Hermes, who slays Argus
Hera sends a gadfly to continuously sting Io
Io eventually crosses the path between the Propontis and the Black Sea; Bosporus (ox passage)
Io meet Prometheus; had been chained on Mt Caucasus by Zeus
Prometheus tells Io that she will eventually regain human form; become ancestress of the greatest of all heroes, Heracles
Io escapes across the Ionian Sea to Egypt
restored to human form by Zeus
gives birth to Zeus' son Epaphus and a daughter, Keroessa
Io marries Egyptian king Telegonus
their grandson Danaus eventually returned to Greece with his 50 daughters, the Danaids), as recalled in Aeschylus' play, The Suppliants
Io connected with the moon by the ancients
in Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, where Io encounters Prometheus, she refers to herself as the "horned virgin"
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