Odysseus had asked his son to lock the armory so that the suitors cannot defend themselves. After successfully shooting an arrow through the holes of the twelve axes, Odysseus shoots Antinous in the throat, and the suitors realize who the beggar - Odysseus - is. They try to flee, then attempt to get Odysseus away from the door so that they can escape. While Odysseus continues to shoot the suitors down, his son, Telemachus, gets spears and shields from the armory. After Odysseus runs out of arrows, he and his son use the spears to kill the suitors. They are helped by two servants. Eventually, Athena, goddess of war, makes her presence known in the form of a shield, and the suitors give up hope, and are slaughtered. Odysseus had killed 108 men, including 12 servants who had betrayed Odysseus (the maids had slept with the suitors, and a servant had mocked Odysseus when he was a beggar).
Odysseus did not have specifically have 12 tasks, set apart from the rest. You are probably thinking of Hercules.
he shot an arrow through twelve axes
The giants ate many of Odysseus' men and destroyed eleven of his twelve ships by launching rocks from high cliffs. Odysseus' ship was not destroyed as it was hidden in a cove near shore. Everyone on Odysseus' ship survived.
Maron gives Odysseus "seven talents of fine gold, and a bowl of silver, with twelve jars of sweet wine, unblended."
Odysseus had asked his son to lock the armory so that the suitors cannot defend themselves. After successfully shooting an arrow through the holes of the twelve axes, Odysseus shoots Antinous in the throat, and the suitors realize who the beggar - Odysseus - is. They try to flee, then attempt to get Odysseus away from the door so that they can escape. While Odysseus continues to shoot the suitors down, his son, Telemachus, gets spears and shields from the armory. After Odysseus runs out of arrows, he and his son use the spears to kill the suitors. They are helped by two servants. Eventually, Athena, goddess of war, makes her presence known in the form of a shield, and the suitors give up hope, and are slaughtered. Odysseus had killed 108 men, including 12 servants who had betrayed Odysseus (the maids had slept with the suitors, and a servant had mocked Odysseus when he was a beggar).
Odysseus did not have specifically have 12 tasks, set apart from the rest. You are probably thinking of Hercules.
to get the golden fleece
he shot an arrow through twelve axes
The giants ate many of Odysseus' men and destroyed eleven of his twelve ships by launching rocks from high cliffs. Odysseus' ship was not destroyed as it was hidden in a cove near shore. Everyone on Odysseus' ship survived.
He proceeded to kill all the wooers.
Six of the twelve original men remain.
Maron gives Odysseus "seven talents of fine gold, and a bowl of silver, with twelve jars of sweet wine, unblended."
he must shoot through the rings of twelve (12) axes in a row
Odysseus took 12 of his strongest men into Polyphemus' cave.
Penelope, Odysseus's' wife, tell the suitors that are courting her that whoever is able to string Odysseus's' bow and arrow and makes the arrow through all twelve axe tops may marry her
For the suitors to string a bow through twelve loops. Though she only knows that Odysseus can do it.