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Odysseus tells his story using references to architecture, cultural truths the Phaeacians recognize and geography familiar to them, referencing monsters and gods they know. This leads them to believe him.However if you are on OdysseyWare it's

We don't; we have to take his word for it.

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How is the odyssey related to The Iliad?

Odysseus was part of the Trojan war and after the Trojan war Odysseus was sailing back home but blown off course and he began his quest.


The blind poet who is believed to compose The Iliad and Odyssey was written by and was about what war?

The Illiad and the Odyssey were recorded by the blind poet Homer and were about Odysseus's adventures and the Trojan War.


Who is the narrator in I am laertes' son?

'I am Laertes' son' is the beginning of the Odyssey. The section is about Odysseus, son of Laertes, telling the beginning of his hard journery to King Alcinous on the island of Phaeacia. Before he was washed ashore to the island of Phaeacia, Odysseus has lost all his men on boats. He is the only one to survive the harsh journey, but yet, he is not home. Poseidon, God of the Sea, makes it rough for Odysseus to reach home, to Ithaca. When Odysseus is washed ashore on the island of Phaeacia, women that work for the king discovers Odysseus and takes him to bathe, feed, and cloth. Thus, when Odysseus eats with King Alcinous during a festival, he tells him who he is and begins his story of why he hasn't returned home for ten years.


Why do Calypso rescues Odysseus?

Because Zeus ordered her to release him by a message with Hermes. -------------------------------------- Athena (his patron goddess) asked Zeus to get Odysseus off the island. So Zeus sent Hermes to tell Calypso to let Odysseus free.


True or false The author who has been given credit for the story of The Odyssey is Homer?

True. Homer has been given credit for The Odyssey and also, The Iliad. Although no one knows for certain that he was a real person, he is believed to have been a blind minstrel who wandered from city to city, making a living by telling stories.

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What point of view is book 9-12 in the odyssey?

Books 9-12 of "The Odyssey" are written in first-person point of view, with Odysseus narrating his adventures to the Phaeacians.


At the beginning of the poem Odysseus is in?

the land of the Phaeacians, assisted by the young Nausicaa and is treated hospitably. In return, he satisfies the Phaeacians' curiosity, telling them, and the reader, of all his adventures since departing from Troy.


How does the odyssey continue the of the Iliad?

The Odyssey continues the story of the Iliad by telling that Odysseus is one of the Greek heroes of the Iliad.


To whom did Odysseus start telling his adventures?

Odysseus reaches the land of the Phaeacians and their kind king, Alcinoüs. The king’s daughter, Nausicaä, finds Odysseus, naked and filthy from sleeping on the ground, and leads him to the king. Received warmly, Odysseus tells the story of his wanderings.


How is the odyssey related to The Iliad?

Odysseus was part of the Trojan war and after the Trojan war Odysseus was sailing back home but blown off course and he began his quest.


Who is Odysseus telling his story to?

Odysseus is not the one who is telling the story. This is all Greek mythology from Homer. No one truly knows if Homer really existed, but this epic was passed down from ancient Greece.


The blind poet who is believed to compose The Iliad and Odyssey was written by and was about what war?

The Illiad and the Odyssey were recorded by the blind poet Homer and were about Odysseus's adventures and the Trojan War.


How does Odysseus show cleverness in The Odyssey?

in the odyssey, odysseus show cleverness in many ways. He show cleverness when on the island with the cyclopes. With the cyclopes killing his men odyssues must fin a way to keep most of his men alive. So he gets the cyclopes drunk with wine and telling him he is nohbody. then when the cyclopes falls asleep odysseus staps the cyclopes in the eye. When he escapes the cyclpose he makes him look stupid making the cyclopes scream "nohbody did this Nohbody did this!"


How does The Odyssey begin?

Homer's epic, The Odyssey, begins with the invocation, in which the poet asks the Muse for help in telling the story. The story starts on mount Olympus, with an entreaty of Athena to Zeus, her father, asking him to aid Odysseus in escaping Calypso's island and gaining his long overdue homecoming.


What happens first in ''The Odyssey''?

The poet says the invocation, asking for help in telling the story


In telling The Odyssey which technique would a bard have used?

The Bard used a lot of symbolism,Imagery and allegory in the telling of the Odyssey.


Where did The Odyssey begin?

The Odyssey begins in the present with the invocation of the poet asking for help from the muse.The story begins in Mount Olympus, where the gods (with the exception of Poseidon) are meeting.Later in book 1, we join Telemachus on the island of Ithaca. However, the direct story of Odysseus begins in book 6 with Odysseus being found in Scheria by Nausicaa, a Phaeaician princess who takes him to her father, where he begins telling the tale of his return from Troy.