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THE ODYSSEY **By: Sedona Wise** in the tenth year of the Trojan war the Greeks tricked the enemies into bringing a huge wood horse into the walls of troy.The Trojans had no idea the Greeks were hidden in side the horse.That night they ran out from the horse and opened the city gates to the Greek army.That night they were destroyed. the Odysseus left the burning city and went home across the sea to Ithaca.On there way home they started running out of supplies. They then stopped at a little island in the middle of the Mediterranean sea.There they met up with a cyclops name **Polyphemus.Polyphemus usually only ate goat cheese and milk.** Polyphemus enjoyed treats of live human time to time.when Greek's asked him a question he trapped them in a cave until they were ready to eat.Odysseus had a plan.He gave Cyclops fragrant red wine that was given to him by the sea god Poseidon.The wine made him go to sleep. Odysseus lit a stick on fire and poked it in cyclops only eye.Cyclops awoke and screamed in horrible pain. **He asked Poseidon, who was his father to place a curse on Odysseus so that he would never see his home again.Cyclops also said, if they shawl return home and make the trip long and terrible.Odysseus left the island but when he left a dangerous storm was against him and his crew.They were forced to stop at an island named Aaeaa were a pretty sorcerer lived named Circe.Before Odysseus went into the palace, Hermes came down from the heavens and warned him that Circe liked to turn men into pigs and the only thing that could protect him was the black moly flower, which Hermes showed him in the garden in front of the palace. Odysseus picked the black moly flower and ate it.Then him and his crew went into the palace.** Circe greeted them nicely and offered them glasses of wine. They took the wine and drank it thinking that the moly flower would save him. **After the entire glass of wine was gone, Circe raised a wand and said, "Go wallow in the mud with all the others!”While his entire crew turned into pigs he just stood there. After blinking a couple of times, Circe became extremely scared. "Wh-wh-wh why? H-h-how?" Then Circe allowed his men to be changed back into humans and for Odysseus and his crew to stay at her palace for as long as they liked.Almost a year went by and he finally wanted to leave because of his homesickness.Although he liked living in a luxury palace they left. So, Circe gave him some advice. "You will have to pass through a narrow channel. On one side is Scylla, a vicious sea monster, who will eat six of your men with each of its six heads; on the other side is Charybdis, a whirlpool that will suck up your entire ship. It would be better to go past Scylla and lose six of your men than to go by Charybdis and lose them all, plus your ship." She also gave them some supplies and food to last them quite a while. Then they left. They went through a lot of adventures. They went by the Sirens who were terrible creatures that would sing to lure men to their island where they would be eaten. But they escaped intact.**

by:Olivia Dusza ms.Mannojlovic SS The sirens used to be a help to Demeter(the goddess of agriculture) to find her daughter Persephone who was kidnapped by Hades.Demeter had the sirens help her find her daughter,but after awhile the sirens have up and settled in the island called Anthemoess.The sirens would try and get ships by coming into their death trap by singing in a beautiful tone.One of those ships were Odysseus ship.When Odysseus heared the music he started to get suspitious so quickley and quietly he stuffed his crewes ears,so they would not here the music.Later Odysseus jumed into the water and swam to shore and he met Calypso and they fell in love.Odysseus was on that island for 20 years.But 20 years later he found his way home.

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