What does Odysseus return home to find?

For Odysseus to get home late. Return home in a foreign ship. To lose all his men. To find trouble when Odysseus reaches home.

No, Poseidon (God of the sea) did not want Odysseus to return home to Ithaca because Odysseus blinded his son the cyclops Polythemus. The fates had declared that Odysseus would not return home until he had suffered many trials.

Odysseus wants to return home to Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and their son Telemachus live.

It takes Odysseus 20 years to return home after he left Ithaca for the war. It takes Odysseus 10 years to return home after the 10 year long Trojan war. During these 10 years, Odysseus spent a year with the sorceress Circe. Odysseus was trapped with the Nymph Goddess Calypso for 7 years.

Odysseus had not yet returned home from the Trojan War because he had angered the god Poseidon. Poseidon placed many obstacles in Odysseus way so he would be unable to return to his home.

He wanted to return home because his wife was still waiting for him.

Attempting to return from Troy expedition.

To return home.

The war was over, and Odysseus wanted to return home to Ithaca.

Odysseus defeats the sea monster guy

Odysseus waits for the cyclops to return in hope that the cyclops will be a good host and give him a present. It is really Odysseus' curiousity that compels him to stay.

Odysseus eventually did return home. He was hampered along the way by all sorts of trials.

If his crew eat the Lotus, they will lose all desire to return home. Odysseus needs the men to return home himself, and he is responsible for these men.

Odysseus' main goal is trying to return home, to Ithaca.

He couldn't get there

the phaiakians bring him home...everyone else dies

So that Odysseus could return home with out being recognized, so he can see what the suitors are doing to his home.

Penelope was worried that someone was fooling her, perhaps a god, into thinking Odysseus had returned home alive. To be gone twenty years and then return home then was very unlikely.

In addition to clothing and feeding Odysseus, the Phaecians heap many treasures upon Odysseus and return him home to Ithaca.

In Odysseus's journey, he always has a longing to return home to his son and beloved wife, penelope

odysseus feared he would never return home and that he would never see his wife penelope

Many people and gods help Odysseus return home, but Athena is the largest help, appealing to the gods to help him, and not hinder his journey. Aeolus (Eolus) gives Odysseus and his men a bag of the winds so that they can sail home quickly. Circe gives Odysseus much advice on how to get home, including how to pass the dangerous Scylla and Charbydis. The ghosts of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias, Odysseus' mother, and…

get to his ship safely

That Odysseus not be allowed to return home.

The island of Ithica is Odysseus home, which he spent 20 years trying to return to.

Odysseus returned home with a single Phaecian ship, as all of ships had been destroyed.

Odysseus goes back home because that is where he wants to return after fighting the war at Troy. He has a wife and a child whom he has not seen for many years. Further, the men who are with him wish to return home to Greece as well.

Odysseus must talk to Tiresias, a dead prophet who will know how Odysseus can return safely home and appease the angry Poseidon. on the advice of Circe.

It takes Odysseus 20 years to return home after he left Ithaca for the war. It takes Odysseus 10 years to return home after the 10 year long Trojan war. During these 10 years, Odysseus spent a year with the sorceress Circe. Odysseus was trapped with the Nymph Goddess Calypso for 7 years. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_did_it_take_Odysseus_to_return_home#ixzz1AsNqNNvO

The Phaecians bring Odysseus home in their swift blessed ships, and unload him while still sleeping onto Ithaca with many treasures of tribute.

The keeper of the winds, Aeolus, gave Odysseus a bag filled with wind so he can reach Ithaca, his home, faster.

He waits till the ship that brought Odysseus home is in eyesight of the Phaeacian Island and turns it into stone.

No. Poseidon realizes that Odysseus is fated to return home so can not kill him. Instead he wishes to make Odysseus suffer greatly for a long time.

penelope was very loyal to odysseus as most traditional housewives are in almost every way. she kept the house for odysseus and gave him a home to return to.

Odysseus, with the help of his son (Telamachus), killed all Penelope's suitors. his faithful dog, that lived almost twice as long as a dog should, waited for him to return, only to die upon his master's arms on his arrival.

The Phaecians took Odysseus home because it had always been there custom to return lost travelers back to their homes. Furthermore, they were good and gracious hosts.

Zeus leaves Odysseus alive because Odysseus has been fated to return home. Even the mightiest Gods do not dare go against the Fates.

Because they did not want to return home

The sirens are a danger that Odysseus and his men must pass to return home.

the underworld

The Odyssey by the Greek poet Homer .

Polyphemus cries out to his father, the god Poseidon. He requests revenge on Odysseus and his men, asking that they not return home to Ithaca.

Odysseus wishes to return home to see his wife Penelope and his child Telemachus, whom he has not seen for 20 years.

The problems in the Odyssey are * Odysseus must struggle to return home after the Trojan war * Telemachus must struggle to become a man * Odysseus must struggle to reclaim his kingdom at home

Odysseus was saved by Calypso when he washed on her island. They become lovers, and sleep together for seven years. However, Odysseus yearns to return home. Calypso offers Odysseus eternal life and youth if would stay with her on her island, but Odysseus declines, longing for his wife Penelope and his home of Ithaca.

Teiresias tell Odysseus many things about his journey home. The journey home will be tough for Odysseus because Poseidon still bears a grudge against Odysseus for blinding Polyphemus. When Odysseus reaches the isle of Thrinacia, he will find the Cattle of Helios. If Odysseus and his men touch the Cattle of Helios, Odysseus men will all die, and Odysseus will only return home in someone else's ship, with trouble at home. Circe later repeats this…

Odysseus ventures into the underworld on the orders of Circe. She tells him to find the ghost of Tiresias, a seer, and ask him how to return to Ithaca.

she is a prophet who talks to odysseus about his wife and how she is doing in ithaca and she tells odysseus that other men are trying to get with his wife if he doesnt hurry and return home .

the lotus plant

Whether Odysseus should get to return home