April 23

• Dear Diary, 
  

I have only a few words left to say. My great adventure is over. Odysseus is in his rightful place as king. All polished up and clean. He has but one mission left, to prove he is Odysseus to the one he cares most for Penelope. Penelope was reluctant to believe he is Odysseus. She remembered his appearance by how he looked back when he boarded the ship for Troy. He proves himself to her, by mentioning their secret. The secret of how he made her bed from an old trunk of and olive tree, and how it could never be moved by a mortal. She then recognized Odysseus for who he truly is. She told him of her love for him, and he needn’t say it too. For his love was impossible to miss. So they hugged. They hugged for what seemed to be an eternity!! 

April 22

Dear Diary,



Before the suitors even knew what Odysseus was doing he shot Antinous. Soon after he killed all the rest of the suitors. At first I thought that this was an accident but i soon realized that Odysseus was just taking all of his anger out. He doesn't usually act like this but I guess he was just mad about all of the suitors wanting to marry Penelope. There was blood all over the floor and the women weren't allowed to come out till the blood bath was cleaned up. The next day Odysseus had a long talk to Penelope. I'lll tell you more about that tomarrow though.



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April 21

Dear Diary,

Finally that day I have been longing for has arrived. I’ve arrived home to Ithaca to greet my missed daughter and to discover my wife, Accalia, has remarried to a blonde haired fisherman. Upon this discovery I was crushed, I no longer believed in love or friendship. I had been replaced by a stinky fisherman and now I was to make a name for myself, so I could never be replaced again. I am going to become KING. The way to become king of Ithaca is to marry Penelope. The only problem is Odysseus isn’t really dead so technically Penelope can’t remarry. However if Accalia could remarry during my lifetime then Penelope could remarry during Odysseus’s lifetime. It is time to say goodbye to the friendship I’ve shared with Odysseus. Penelope was choosing her new husband out of 100 suitors; I was surprised when Odysseus did not return home or stop the chaos at the castle. The way Penelope was to pick her husband was through an archery competition. Whoever she was to marry had to string Odysseus’s bow and then shoot an arrow in twelve different axe heads. I watched over thirty different suitors attempt and none could even string the bow, then it was my turn and I failed. I hoped it was an impossible task and everyone was unsuccessful so I could win Penelope another way. However it wasn’t impossible because later an old beggar, not a suitor, but someone totally unworthy of being king strung the bow and shot it in the axe heads perfectly twelve times in a row. Penelope couldn’t possibly marry an old beggar. Could she?

Yours truly,

April 12

Dear Diary,


We left Circe after one year with her. Odysseus was talking to her during the last night that we stayed with her her to find the best way to continue on our journey home. Circe told him that soon after we set out on our journey that we would run into beautiful sounding sirens, that would make us not want to continue and forget about home and our families. Like she said soon after we set sail, we came up upon them, odysseus made me and all of the other men plug their ears with beeswax, but refused to plug his ears. Instead he had himself tied up in the back of the boat. I think that Odysseus thought that he wouldn't be effected by the sirens and that he was kind of curious about them. I also think that his pride exceeds him sometimes, and that his curiosity gets in the way of him making rational decisions, because indeed he was effected by the beautiful sirens. In fact some men had to hold him down when we were rowing through the area. The next morning we went through a strait between Scylla and Charybdis. Charybdis is a huge whirlpool that will eat the entire ship and Scylla is a six headed monster the swallows one shipmate for every head it has. Odysseus decided with the help of Circe that it would be better to sail closer to Scylla in order to loose as few men as possible. Just as Circe had told Odysseus, as soon as we looked the other way Scylla gobbled up six of our men. After we got out of the strait, we came upon the island of the sun, Thrinacia. Odysseus wanted to completely skip this island but Eurylochus convinced him to let us rest there since we were very tired from all the traveling. He was afraid that we would kill the cattle. A storm hits the island soon after we landed there and made us stuck there for a month. Odysseus told us that we would have to live off of the food on the ship until we could set sail again. One day we were just so hungry and the crew disobeyed him. The sun soon finds out about this and tells Zeus to punish Odysseus and us. Zeus makes a new storm and destroys the ship and thinks that he killed all of the crew but Odysseus and I were the only two left to survive. The storm swept us all the way back to Charybdis, but we finally make it all the way to Ogygia, the Land of the Cyclops.

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April 10

Dear Diary,

Before I go to the underworld I am to tell you of what brings me there. While I was at the land of the Laestrygones the mates and I were attacked by cannibals and boulders only I and 44 others survived. Afterwards we sailed to Aeaea which is home to the goddess Circes. Odysseus took half of his men, one of whom was I, to the hall of Circe. When we got there the most absurd thing happened, I mean it was truly ridiculous and when I tell you of what Circe did to me I don’t believe you shall believe me. SHE TURNED ME INTO A PIG!! A little pink pig with four stubby legs and a curly cue tail. While I and everyone else other then Odysseus were pigs Circe took Odysseus away with her. They both returned quite pleased and Circe toned me and the mates back into men. I then enjoyed a year of eating and drinking at Aeaea, but I felt home sick because no food or drink could replace my family or home soil. Odysseus must have felt the same way because he conversed with Circe asking to return home. She told him he could leave but he could not return home without first visiting the prophet Tiresias in the underworld. So I am a living man off to the land meant for only the dead.

Yours truly,

April 1

Dear Diary,

I’ve been on this ship for quite some time. Ten years to be exact. I hold the sea goddess Calypso responsible for seven of the years. I give my regards to the Athena for helping my mates and me leave Calypso’s island. And it is to Odysseus whom I give my friendship and loyalty because it is he who persuaded Calypso to let us go. Eventually I was able to sail away on the raft Odysseus made with Athena’s help. Sadly this raft was destroyed by storms bringing me to the land of the phaeacians. This landing however was not sad but rather an adventure, for Alcinous was king of this land and he was quite friendly and taken with Odysseus. So, he threw a banquet in honor of Odysseus. Now here I give my thanks to having given my friendship to Odysseus because it is that that’s made all the difference in my journey.

Yours truly,

April 9

Dear Diary,

After Odysseus and the men and I got out of the treturous storm sent by Zeus, we landed upon the land of the lotus-eaters. The native lotus eaters gave the lotus plants so some of the men, thank god they didn't give me one. As soon as the men ate the fruit, it put a spell on them. They lost all hope of home and all they wanted to do was eat more of the fruit. Odysseus being the witty man that he is thought to drag the men back to the ship and lock them in a cage to keep them going. Odysseus and I and all of the other men then went to the land of the cyclops during the dark night. When you got off the boats we found a cave full of sheep and crates of milk. The rest of the men and I wanted to take some food and get out of there but Odysseus did'nt want to leave, so we lingered there for awhile. Soon after the owner of the cave, the cyclops returned. He was very nice to all of us but turned hostal very quickly. He ate two of my close friends and imprisoned the rest of us and Odysseus. At first Odysseus wanted to stab the cyclops right then and there, but then decided aginst it because the cyclops was the only one strong enough to move the huge boulder that was placed across the opening of the cave. The next day when the cyclops was outside Odysseus found a wodden staff and hardens it in the fire. When the cyclops came back Odysseus got him drunk. The cyclops then asks Odysseus waht his name was, and Odysseus being the witty man that I know responds and says that his name is Nobody. The cyclops passed out soon after he asked Odyssues that, and Odysseus, some of the other men, and I stabbed his eye with the hot wooden staff. The Cyclops wakes up and screams "Nobody's killing me!" His neighbors come to check on him but they don't stay because he then says that noone is killing him. Odysseus, the men, and I escape from the cave by riding underneath the sheep, so the Cyclpops won't feel us when we go out of the cave. Because since he can't see anything he is feeling everything that leaves his cave. Odysseus's plan with the sheep worked perfectly, and we escaped the cave. We left soon after we escaped and we are now on the ship again on our way home.

<--- This is the Cyclops. I almost lost my life to him.

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