Entry 13: Penelope My Love

After I was done with the suitors she wanted to know who I was, and why I had done this. I told her that I was Odysseus, she was overcome in shock and did not believe me. She said that I could stay there until things were straightened out, then she turned to one of the slaves and told her to make the bed in the hallway. I became furious, I demanded to know who could have moved the bed which I had hand made from a tree, the tree I had built my house around. At that moment she burst into tears and grabbed me, glad to see me home again. She told many others had tried to trick her saying that they were Odysseus but I was the only true Odysseus. After this I knew I was home again and my heart was happy.

Entry 12: My Revenge On The Suitors

After my talk with Penelope, I knew I would be making my revenge soon. I noticed the twelve axes standing in the yard. The suitors were to shoot an arrow through all twelve of the axe handles, before she would consider a marriage. The men also had to string my bow in order to shoot the arrow, this is what prevented many of the men from achieving their goal. I asked if I could have a turn and my wish was granted. In one swift motion I strung my bow with ease, as it took many of them hours. I shot it through each of the axes without a problem, many of the men wondered how and old beggar could do this without a problem, that is when the fight started. I gave my signal to Telemachus as he went to get the armor and weapons, I began to shot arrows at each man questioning me with rage. The first to be shot was Antinous, as he was sipping his wine I shot my arrow through his throat as the others watched in terror. As they asked why I did this I told them that I was Odysseus and I was back for revenge on them for taking my home over my 20 year trip. One man stands up and apologizes for all the taken and then some.I told them that it wasn't good enough and they were going to pay for trying to take a living mans wife. I shot arrows through each one aproaching me, until Telemachus returned with the other weapons. Though some tried to run they all ended up dead, for they all deserved this for invading my home.

Entry 11: In My House Again

Telemachus did as I said, which was to hide the weapons for my secret arrival. Eumaeus showed me around, in our tour we walked past an old dog, Argus. Before I left for the war I trained this young puppy, now to see him laying here old and in pain, it was hard for me not show my emotion. Eumaeus tells me that the dog is not being taken care of because his master is gone and the women slaves do not take care of him. I expressed that I believed that he could have been a good dog if he would have been trained right, not trying to lead on too much. Afterwards he took me inside where I saw the suitors destroying the house I once left. As I asked for bread all of them were kind and willing to share, expect for Antinous. I asked him what might it harm since he was living off another mans livestock and house. My words anger Antinous as he picks up a stool and crushes it on my back. I tell him that he will die for his wedding day shall come. After this I was called to see Penelope who my heart longed for.She asked me of my journey and if I had heard anything of her husband Odysseus. I couldn't tell her that it was me so I told her that he would be home soon. She also tells me of how she has avoided marrying the suitors for so long. She tells me of the shrine which they agreed she could sew before she had to pick one of them. At night for three years she would take apart the shrine so she could prolong the decision.

Entry 10: Telemachus

After my talk with Athena she changed my appearance and told me to go see my old friend Eumaeus. And there I shall reveal my identity to my son. Whenever I reached Eumaeus' house I told Telemachus, at first my son thought of me as a god but I tried to convince him otherwise. Afterwards me and him talked and were very emitional because or departure hurt us both. We talked of the suitors and our plan to get rid of them. We decided to hide all the weapons,and shields except for two swords, two spears and two shields so that we could attack. I told him that if any of them were to ask to tell them that Zeus told him to move them so that there would not be any conflict. I told him not to tell his mother so that there would not be a big ordeal and that way I could really know if she still did truly love me. I also told him no matter what not to let it be known who I really was, no matter what was to happen. I told him within a couple of days I would be there as the beggar, as we said our goodbyes.

Entry 8: The Cattle of the Sun God

As I had been told by the prophet Tiresias my men should not eat of the cattle of Helios. But as I went out to pray to the gods, the men became restless and hungry. Eurylochus said to the men "Better your lungs to a big sea once for all than waste to skin and bones on a lonely island." I had warned the men not to eat of the cattle but their hunger took over, and they began to eat the cattle. While I had went out to pray to the gods, the gods put me to sleep and let my men eat the cattle.

Entry 9: My Return

After many hardships,I reached Ithaca, when I got off the ship I was encountered by Athena who informed me of what was going on at my home. She tells me that many suitors are trying to take my wifes hand in marriage. I was also informed that many of them have tried to kill my son and Telemachus, so he could not inherit my lands. But I am also informed that both my wife and my son are looking forward to my return home.

Entry 7: Scylla and Charybdis

As we traveled onward to our destination to our homes, we hope.  As we came near into view came Scylla and Charybdis,  clashing of the ships oars and men began to overcome the air. Scared and frigtened were my men, I went to the stern and began to encourage them. I reminded them of the other times we had been through danger but yet lived such as our encounter with the Cyclops.

Entry 6:The Song of the Sirens

This way, oh turn your bows,
Achea’s glory,
As all the world allows-
Moor and be merry.

Sweet coupled airs we sing.
No lonely seafarer
Holds clear of entering
Our green mirror.

Pleased by each purling note
Like honey twining
From her throat and my throat,
Who lies a-pining?

Sea rovers here take joy
Voyaging onward,
As from our song of Troy
Graybeard and rower-boy
Goeth more learned.
All feats on that great field
In the long warfare,
Dark days the bright gods willed,
Wounds you bore there,
Argos’ old soldiery
On Troy beach teeming,
Charmed out of time we see.
No life on earth can be
Hid from our dreaming.

Entry 5: Lovely Voices

As I returned to Circe’s island, I was received advised on how to avoid the dangers I was to encounter. She told me what would happen when we went to the Sirens, I returned to my ship and riled up my men. I felt as if my men deserved to know what I was for told. I told them of the for cast that way they knew what to expect and knew how we could die. I told them of the Sirens and what to do when the time came, I also told them the women would sing haunting songs over the sea and their green shores were covered so sweet with clover and that I alone was to listen to them. I told the men that they were to tie me up as tight as possible along the mast. I warned them that if I was to shout and beg to be untied they were to tie me tighter to shut me up. I carved a massive cake of beeswax and rolled them soft, I put the wax into all the men’s ears so that they could not hear the songs of the Sirens. They tied me to the mast and took themselves to rowing as we came upon two Sirens. The lovely voices were appealing to me and I begged to be untied but the men took my advise and did as they were told and tied me tighter. Once we were passed the Sirens the men removed their wax and set me free from the pole.

Entry 4: Journey To Hades

We were told that we had to journey to the underworld before we reached home. On our way down there I saw some very upsetting things. The soul of a dead ship mate that we had lost early on, as well as the spirit to my mother, which upset me the most because when I left home she was still alive and this is the first of me finding out that she is no longer alive. I did not know what to say to her so I did not say anything to her. I then met a phrophet named Tiresias, he drank my sheep blood and for this offering he told me what was soon to come on my journey home. He said that: if my men ate the cattle of Helious they would all die but me, for many years I would travel the sea alone and under strange sails I'd arrive to a broken home there I would find men eating my livestock and suitors, courting my wife, I was told that I would kill them all. He also told me that I would travel by foot to a strage land, where there were no seas and the meats were never salted. There I was to sacrifice a bull, a ram, and a buckbore. At sea again I travel alone, after many years there I would die alone of old age.

Entry 3: Encounter With The One Eyed Monster

Back on the ship again we arrived on an island where we hoped to get food, we grabbed our strong wine and most of the men went ashore the island to look for food and people. We came upon a cave but nobody was home, so we stayed there until the Cyclops returned. When he returned from working we told him that we had brought a gift, and asked what ours what in return. When the Cyclops refused I threatened him with the power of Zeus he merilly laughed and said he did not believe in their gods. He told us that we were going to be his prisoners and he demanded for us to tell him where our ship was. I quickly replied, our shipped crashed whenever we came ashore and we are stranded here with no way to get home. The giant Cyclops then grabbed two of my men, bashing their heads into the rocks and eating them like they were a snack. For his door he used a giant bolder that nobody could move except for him or his help. He had been eating the men slowly by slowly as we came upon a plan to escape. One day while he was out tending to his sheep we found a large branch and devised our plan. We sharpened one end of the branch to a point, that night when he came in the sheep followed behind him as he closed the door. I poured him a cup of my strong wine and offered it to him as I apologized for my behavior at the begining. As we started to talk I told him that my name was Nohbody, he drank a few or bowls of wine and our plan started to fall in place. The Cyclops grew tired and fell to bed me and four of my strongest men picked up the sharpened branch and heated it in the fire. After we had heated the branch we jabbed it through the Cyclops' one eye, he yelled for help but nobody listened. We threw the branch in the fire and scattered. We finished out our plan by tieing ourselves to the bottom of his sheep to be released in to morning. As the Cyclops let the sheep out, touching each of their back his blind eye did not see us underneath. Once we had escaped and we were back on the boat with his sheep, he threw rocks at us as I began to taunt him. My shipmates called it foolish, I told him my real name, my parents and my real home.

Entry 2: Losing Men and Lotus Flowers

Back on the ship my men were drinking, when our ship came upon an island. We were not welcome and we warned to leave, but we were follish and did not listen. When we started being attacked my men were not able to protect themselves due to their consumption of the strong liquor. Many of our men were defleshed and killed, back on our ship when we were leaving we mourned our loses and our follish decisions. On another island we arrived I had this feeling as if we should not stay, but many of the men had eaten Lotus Flowers and were not wanting to leave, even though as my heart was lingering for home.

Entry 1: Love Bound by Calypso

Calypso is holding me against my will, yet my heart lingers for wife who I still love dearly. Though I am not being mistreated, I am a prisoner here where I am a love slave, though back home is where I wish to be. Though the Trojan War has been over for many years, I have yet to go home like my fellow men. My Greek victory over the city of Troy made my heart at static that we won and I would be going home to my wife, my fate has ended me here. I know my journey home will take much effort but it is worth it to be with my loved ones again.