#odyquote Book 8: "My guest's name is still unknown to me, but I have promised him passage home...Tell us your name, stranger, and tell us your home. After all, our ship will need to set a course." This quote is important because it shows that the guest is recieving his promise.
#odycharacter Book 8: "My guest's name is still unknown to me, but I have promised passage home. Therefore prepare our fastest ship." This shows us that King Alcinous is warmhearted and likes to help other people because he promised his guest the passage back to his home.
#Odyplot Book 8: "King Alcinous adressed an assembly of his people." At the assembly, Alcinous proposes providing a ship for his visitor so that the man can return to his homeland.
#odyplot Book 7: Odysseus is stopped by Athena disguised as a young girl. Odysseus explains his predicament to the gods and the king and queen promise to see him the next day in a Phaeacian ship.
#odycharacter Book 7: "When the other guests had left, the queen asked him how it came to be that he was wearing clothes that she herself had trimmed." This shows that the queen is curious and wants to know how Odysseus got the clothes she made.
#odyquote Book 7: "He described how he had approached the princess and her maids by the river, and how Nausicaa had kindly given him clothing." Odysseus told the queen that it was his own idea to visit so that Nausicca didn't get in a dilemma with the gods.
#odyquote Book 6: "Now here is what you must do," she told him. "On the way to my father's palace we will pass between the boatyards." She shows Odysseus the way towards Zeus's palace. Then tells him not to follow behind her cart so that some shipwright thinks they're together.
#Odyplot Book 6: Nausicaa leaves Odysseus alone so he can wash the dirt off his body, but then Athena makes him look handsome, so that Nausicaa will fall in love with him.
#odycharacter Book 6: Nausicaa introduces herself to Odysseus and tells her maids not to be afraid for the reason that strangers come from the god Zeus. Nausicaa then gives oil to Odysseus so he can bathe and then leaves.
#odycharacter Book 5:"So, my fellow gods have taken pity on Odysseus. If Zeus wills it, then he's headed home. But not before I give him a voyage to remember." Poseidon knows that the gods have decided his fate, so he makes a decision to leave a thought with him before he leaves.
#odyquote Book 5: "Soon after dawn breaks on Mount Olympus, Athena puts the case of Odysseus once more before the gods. At her prompting, Zeus dispatches Hermes with a message for Calypso." This quote signifies that the gods have decided that the fate of Odysseus is to live.
#Odyplot Book 5: Book five is mainly about all the gods except poseidon gathering together and deciding whether Odysseus's fate will be to live or die.
#Odyplot Book 4: Book four is about Menelaus telling the famous story of the Trojan horse and how it allowed Greeks to sneak into Troy and kill the Trojans to win the war.
#odyquote Book 4: "And remember, my dear how you suspected that we were hiding inside the wooden horse?" This quote is asked by Menelaus to Queen Helen because the trojans were gifted the trojan horse by the Greeks so they could hide in it in order to slaughter the trojans.
#odyquote Book 3: Telemachus asks the wise old king to tell him what had happened to his father, but "Nestor tells him what he knows about the Greeks' return from Troy.
#Odyplot Book 2: The plot to book two is when Odysseus didn't return home, and people assumed he was dead. Penelope had invented a plan to delay having to marry one of the suitors.
#odycharacter Book 2: "He asks them how they can stand idly by and allow his mother's hospitality to be abused." This tells us that he warm hearted and cares about his mother.
#odycharacter Book 3: "Telemachus asks the wise old king to tell him how and where his father died, for he cannot help but assume the worst." This quote tells me that Telemachus's character is curious and that he cares about his dad.