7th+Odyssei+Bk+13

= **13th book of The Odyssey of Hom****er** = = __**Important Characters**__ =
 * Odysseus (Athena gives him the appearance of an old vagabond)
 * Alcinous
 * Poseidon
 * Zeus
 * Athena (disguised as a shepherd)
 * Eumaeus (Odysseus's swine herder)

= **__Vocabulary from Chapter 13__** =

Oracle: a prophecy from the greek gods handed down to priests. Example on page 261: //I can recall an ancient prophecy, an __oracle__ my father told me.//

= **__Developing Themes__** =
 * Hospitality
 * Justice of the gods
 * Sacrifice

= **__Examples of the Three Themes__** =


 * Hospitality**- Athena helps Odysseus in Ithica/foreign land


 * Sacrifice**- The people of Scheria witness the boat turning into stone and sinking. They then give up their ways of helping travelers.


 * Justice of the gods**- The Phaeacians are killed by drowning because their boat sank because Poseidon turned the boat into stone.

= **__Setting__** = = __**Summary**__ = Odysseus leaves Scheria with Alcinous's gifts. He sets sail with a crew of Phaeacian men and falls asleep during the trip. He then wakes up on Ithica, but thinks that it is a foreign land because Athena put a shroud of mist over the land. As the Phaeacians return home, Poseidon finds out that the Phaeacians helped Odysseus get back to Ithica. H then gets furious, and with Zeus's approval, turns their boat into stone which then sinks to the bottom of the ocean. The people ashore Scheria suddenly realize the consummation of the prophecy and resolve to abandon their custom of helping travelers. Meanwhile on Ithica, Odysseus is met by Athena, disguised as a shepherd, who tells him that he is truly on Ithica. Odysseus keeps his identity concealed from the shepherd until he finds out who the shepherd is. Brightened Odysseus’s cunning, Athena informs him that it is time for him to use his wits to get rid of the suitors. She tells him to hide in the hut of his swine herder, Eumaeus. She also tells him that Telemachus has gone to find news of him. Finally, she gives him the appearance of an old vagabond so that no one on Ithica, especially the suitors, will recognize him. = **__Five most important things that happened in this book.__** =
 * Mount Olympus
 * Ithica
 * Scheria
 * Odysseus leaves Scheria with a crew of Phaeacians to return home
 * Odysseus returns to Ithica
 * Poseidon punishes the Phaeacians for helping his nemesis, Odysseus, by turning their boat into stone which sinks it
 * Athena shrouds Ithica in mist so that it seems like a foreign land to Odysseus when he wakes up
 * Athena changes Odysseus's appearance (old vagabond)

= **//The Dectective work//** = In the Odyssey, gods such as Athena disguise themselves as other people for the benefit of the world, like in chapter 13 when she disguised herself as a sheperd when trying to help Odysseus. The gods didnt just dsguise themselves in the Odyssey, they disguised themselves in thousands of other different myths. For example, When Zeus was attempting to seduce the Spartan queen Leda, he transformed himself into a beautiful swan, and from the egg which Leda produced, two sets of twins were born. Another example would be when Poseiden disgiused himself as a god named Enipues so he a girl named Tyro would fall in love with him. In general, gods mostly disguised themselves for a mortal to fall for them, but they also disguised themselves to help everyone live better.