The Odyssey - Homer

The Odyssey - Homer

1. Book One

   • Themes
     • Gods Helping
     • Xenia
     • Father-Son Relationships
     • Disguise and Deception
       • Athena disguises herself as Mentes, a chieftain visiting Telemachus
   • Background Information
     • Zeus refers to Aegisthus
       • Killed Agamemnon in order to steal Clytemnestra and was killed by Agamemnon's son, Orestes, in an act of vengeance
     • Narrator tells Odysseus' story
       • All Greek heroes have returned from Troy apart from Odysseus. He is trapped on the island Ogygia with Calypso