MythNotes      Return of Odysseus (and the refuge of Aeneas)      

                                                 Powell Ch.22 [& 23]

 

Best of the Nostoi (homecoming sagas)

 

Odysseus son of Laertes (or Sisyphus?)

 

A tale told to the Phaeacians:                                                

             

            Lotus-Eaters

    Polyphemus                                                                            

    Aeolus

    Circe                                                                                        

    Summoning the Dead: Teiresias

    Sirens                                                                                      

    Scylla and Charybdis

    Cattle of the Sun                                                                                 

    Calypso

 

Vengeance at Ithaca:                                                                              

 

    Penelope and Telemachus

 

    Suitors, led by Antinoüs                                

 

    Justice of Athena

 

Late sequel

    Telegonus (son of Circe)

 

[Ch. 23, Aeneas leads the refugees from Troy

                             Anchises in the land of the Dead

                             founding a new nation in Italy

                             Ascanius/Iulus, ancestor of the Caesars]