And retreat is always bad, as we are taught in Homer, when he introduces Odysseus, setting forth to Agamemnon the danger of ships being at hand when soldiers are disposed to fly.
Odysseus keeps sailing into my research on Atlantis.
In The History of Atlantis (1926) Lewis Spence takes the same line from a paper in The Occult Review of September 1923: on Ogygia, Calypso, daughter of Atlas, holds Odysseus while Athene protects him.
The island itself has its own page, Scheria is the island home of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey, where Nausicaa helps the shipwrecked Odysseus and Alcinous gives him a ship and crew for Ithaca.
In The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New Donnelly, citing Tylor's Anthropology, pairs the poisoned arrows of America with Odysseus going to Ephyra for an arrow poison.
For every page I tagged with odysseus, see the odysseus tag archive.
In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus washes ashore on Scheria, the island of the Phaeacians.
She helps Odysseus after his shipwreck.
Odysseus washes ashore on Scheria after his shipwreck.
They welcome Odysseus without hesitation.
Alcinous gives Odysseus a ship and a crew to take him home to Ithaca.
Scheria is a stop between the fantastic adventures of Odysseus’ wanderings and his return to real life in Ithaca.
King Alcinous asks Odysseus for his name and his home.
Athena tells Odysseus in Book 7.
Nausithous was the son of the sea god (Neptune in Butler's English, Poseidon in the Greek) and of Periboea, and his son Alcinous rules the island when Ulysses (Odysseus) arrives.
350.) "On the coast of Brittany, where Cape Raz stands out westward into the ocean, there is 'the Bay of Souls,' the launching-place where the departed spirits sail off across the sea." (Ibid.) In like manner, Odysseus found the land of the dead in the ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
Odysseus went to Ephyra for the man-slaying drug with which to smear his bronze-tipped arrows.
Odysseus led twelve ships of brave Cephallenians.
According to some versions of the myth, Sisyphus then seduced Autolycus's daughter, Anticlea, who later gave birth to Odysseus.
This led to speculation that Odysseus might be the biological son of Sisyphus, rather than Laertes, though this is not universally accepted.
Autolycus was the maternal grandfather of the hero Odysseus.
In Homer's "Odyssey," it is mentioned that Autolycus was responsible for giving Odysseus his name, which means "son of pain" or "trouble."
Autolycus's influence on Odysseus is evident in the latter's own cunning and resourcefulness, traits that helped him survive his many adventures.
Autolycus also plays a role in the story of the scar on Odysseus's leg, which becomes crucial in the hero's recognition scene in the "Odyssey."
When Odysseus was a young boy, he visited his grandfather Autolycus, who took him hunting on Mount Parnassus.
During the hunt, Odysseus was gored by a wild boar, leaving a distinctive scar on his leg.
This scar later served as a key identifying feature when Odysseus returned home after his long journey.
In the "Odyssey," Calypso offers ambrosia to Odysseus, intending to make him immortal so he can stay with her forever on her island.