She invited Odysseus ' crew to a feast of familiar food, a pottage of cheese and meal, sweetened with honey and laced with wine, but also laced with one of her magical potions, and she turned them all into swine with a wand after they gorged themselves on it.

She also advised Odysseus to go to the Underworld and gave him directions.

Notably he encountered the spirit of Agamemnon, of whose murder he now learned, and Achilles, who told him about the woes of the land of the dead ( for Odysseus ' encounter with the dead, see also Nekuia ).

* Similarly, Daniel Wallace's Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions ( 1998 ) adapts the epic to the American South, while also incorporating tall tales into its first-person narrative much as Odysseus does in the Apologoi ( Books 9-12 ).

Odysseus is also able to disguise his identity, though not physically, by telling Polyphemus his name is ‘ Nobody ’ so that he will not be identified as the one who blinded the Cyclops.

Odysseus ( or ; Greek:, Odusseus ), also known by the Roman name Ulysses (; ), was the perhaps fictional Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

Polyphemus is shown to be blind and there was also a reference about Odysseus being responsible for blinding him under the alias of " Nobody ".

Atlas ' daughter Calypso would also bear Odysseus two sons, Nausithoos and Nausinous.

Homer also quote ' Sandy Pylos ' in Book 17 of the Odyssey about Telemachus travelling to Sparta in search of news of his father Odysseus.

The Cyclopes, usually children of Gods ( Olympians ) and nature spirits ( nereids, naiads and dryads ), are also compared to giants due to their huge size ( Polyphemus, son of Poseidon and Thoosa, and nemesis of Odysseus and Jason, comes to mind ).

It was renamed Ulysses, the Latin translation of " Odysseus " at ESA's request in honour not only of Homer's mythological hero but also with reference to Dante's description in Dante's Inferno.

Homer also calls Telemachus by the patronymic epithet " Odysseus ' son ".

Transformed into the goddess Leucothea, Ino also represents one of the many sources of divine aid to Odysseus in the Odyssey ( 5: 333ff ), her earliest appearance in literature.

* Macareus, a companion to Odysseus on his voyages, from Nericus, who also encountered Aeneas.

He also appears in Horace's Satire 2. 5, in which he advises Odysseus to take up legacy hunting.

He is also called Thoth and Ordo Maas, and is the ancestor of Odysseus, Merlin, and King Arthur.

The oracle also features in Odysseus's fictive yarn about himself told to the swineherd Eumaeus: Odysseus, he tells Eumaeus, has been seen among the Thesprotians, having gone to inquire of the oracle at Dodona whether he should return to Ithaca openly or in secret ( as the disguised Odysseus is actually doing ).

He was also a relative of Odysseus through marriage.

Variants to the story are found in later poets: for example, in a tragedy by Sophocles, Odysseus Acanthoplex ( which also does not survive ), Odysseus finds out from an oracle that he is doomed to be killed by his son.

Diomedes and Odysseus were charged with achieving this prophecy also.

The same damnation is imposed on Odysseus, who is also punished for having persuaded Achilles to fight in the Trojan war, without telling him that this would lead to his inevitable death.

Diomedes and Odysseus are also here for their part in the Trojan Horse.

* Odysseus: The hero of Homer's epic, named in three other plays – he is presented here as a benchmark for spooky bloodlust ( line 1561 ).

The oldest account of a bed is probably that of Odysseus: a charpoy woven of rope, plays a role in the Odyssey.

Moreover the last line could be imitating an image from Homer's Odyssey ( 5. 482 ), where Odysseus covers himself with leaves though some scholars think the key word might be corrupted.

Finally, Odysseus asks Demodocus to return to the Trojan War theme and tell of the Trojan Horse, a stratagem in which Odysseus had played a leading role.

Phineus then revealed to the Argonauts the path their journey would take and informed them how to pass the Symplegades safely, thus filling the same role for Jason that Circe did for Odysseus in the Odyssey.

Odysseus ' fame comes from his role as a noble hero paralleled to his role as an anonymous beggar.

Calypso is remembered most for her role in Homer's Odyssey, in which she keeps the fabled Greek hero Odysseus on her island so she could make him her immortal husband.

The first segment puts Homer Simpson in the role of Odysseus in the ancient Greek epic poem Odyssey.

Odysseus faced both Charybdis and Scylla in Homer's Odyssey while rowing through a narrow channel.

Even earlier, a kind of primitive haggis is referred to in Homer's Odyssey, in book 20, ( towards the end of the eighth century BC ) when Odysseus is compared to " a man before a great blazing fire turning swiftly this way and that a stomach full of fat and blood, very eager to have it roasted quickly.

Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass the Sirens — the same Sirens encountered by Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus crawls beneath two shoots of olive that grow from a single stock, and in the Iliad, ( XVII. 53ff ) is a metaphoric description of a lone olive tree in the mountains, by a spring ; the Greeks observed that the olive rarely thrives at a distance from the sea, which in Greece invariably means up mountain slopes.

In Homer's Odyssey ( Book 9 ), Odysseus lands on the Island of the Cyclopes during his journey home from the Trojan War.

Aeneas observes Polyphemus as he leads his flocks down to the sea after Achaemenides re-tells the story of how Odysseus and his men escaped Polyphemus in Homer's Odyssey.

In ancient Greece, the earliest mention of oratorical skill occurs in Homer's Iliad, where heroes like Achilles, Hektor, and Odysseus were honored for their ability to advise and exhort their peers and followers ( the Laos or army ) in wise and appropriate action.

In Homer's Odyssey XII, Odysseus is given advice by Circe to sail closer to Scylla, for Charybdis could drown his whole ship: " Hug Scylla's crag — sail on past her — top speed!

Odysseus ' ten year journey home to Ithaca was told in Homer's Odyssey.

In Homer's Iliad, Phoenix, along with Odysseus and Ajax, urges Achilles to re-enter battle.

In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope ( ; ) is the faithful wife of Odysseus, who keeps her suitors at bay in his long absence and is eventually reunited with him.

In Homer's epic, the Odyssey, Odysseus visits the kingdom of Aeolus, and this is the old name for Thessaly.

In a famous episode of Homer's Odyssey, the hero Odysseus encounters the Cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon and Thoosa ( a nereid ), who lives with his fellow Cyclopes in a distant country.

Virgil's account acts as a sequel to Homer's, with the fate of Polyphemus as a blind cyclops after the escape of Odysseus and his crew.

Modern Ithaca is generally identified with Homer's Ithaca, the home of Odysseus, whose delayed return to the island is one of the elements of the Odyssey's plot.

Despite any difficulties with Homer's description of the island, in classical and Roman times the island now called " Ithaca " was universally held to be the home of Odysseus ; the Hellenistic identifications of Homeric sites, such as the identifications of Lipari as the island of Aeolus, are usually taken with a grain of salt, and attributed to the ancient tourist trade.

Telemachus (;, Tēlemakhos, literally " far-fighter ") is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's Odyssey.

In Homer's " The Odyssey ", when Odysseus is captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus, he tells the Cyclops that his name is Outis ( No-one ).

Homer's young brother's name, Ulysses, is the Roman form of the name Odysseus, the Odyssey's protagonist.

Ithaca is both Homer's and Ulysses ' home-town in the novel and Odysseus ' home-island in the Odyssey.

The mythic theme was an ancient one, for Homer's listeners were expected to know the allusion, when Penelope reveals to the still-disguised Odysseus her anguish of a night:

Although not mentioned in Homer's Epic, Achaemenides is significant ; his stranding and subsequent rescue by Aeneas ' fleet make him the only known member of Odysseus ' crew to survive the return journey to Ithaca ( as every ship besides the flagship was destroyed by the Laestrygonian giants, and those besides Odysseus on the last ship were drowned after his men devoured Helios ' sacred cattle ).