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 King Agamemnon, offer advice and support to Odysseus journey.
Calypso finds Odysseus, shipwrecked, and nurses him back to health. She eventually helps him build a raft to get home.
Nausicaa finds Odysseus and brings him home to the Phaecian palace.
The Phaecians bring Odysseus home on their swift blessed ships.
The Greek goddess Athena helps Odysseus go home to Ithaca by guiding and protecting him throughout his journey. She advises him, provides support to him, and helps him defeat his enemies.
Ino, daughter of Cadmus helps Odysseus when he is adrift on his raft in the middle of the storm.
Odysseus wiliness, perseverance, courtesy, speech craft, strength, endurance, piety, and learned humility, eventually allow him to get back home.
Circe helps Odysseus to go back to Ithaca :)
Hermes
Monsters
Back home to Ithaca.
home to Ithaca:) duhhh!
the underworld
Tiresias tells Odysseus he will go to Thrinacia, then to Ithaca, then to a land where no one has heard of the sea. Finally, Odysseus will return to Ithaca.
Circe sent Odysseus to go talk to Tiresias, who gave him instructions for his journey home to Ithaca.
He needed to sail pass this strait to get home to Ithaca.
he had to go to war im troy
Odysseus went on The Odyssey because he wanted to travel back to his fatherland of Ithaca.
He had to go fight in the Trojan war
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 tries to go home but, he and his men were cursed by one of the cyclopses on his journey home (this happened because when the cyclops started eating Odysseus's men so, he had to blind him with a rock). This effected him by Poseidon-the cyclops's father- made him and his comrades the hardest possible way to get to their homeland Ithaca.
to his loyal servant, Eumaeus, who was the swineherd that first met him. There he tasted the food and he knew he was in Ithaca.