The Odyssey

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alone, could listen to the Sirens' song
and not die. When Odysseus had to figure out how he could kill the Suitors who
were staying in his house, he had Athena disguise him as an old beggar and then
told Telemachus, his son, to hide all of the Suitors' weapons and armor. If
they asked Telemachus what he was doing, he was to tell them he was storing the
weapons so that none of the suitors would kill each other if they got into a
fight. Many times throughout the story, Odysseus had to be resourceful enough to
accomplish a task by using surrounding things, whatever was at hand. When he
was drifting back towards Charybdis, Odysseus grabbed onto a nearby fig tree
and held on until a piece of driftwood shot out of the whirlpool; then he
grabbed a hold of the driftwood and soared to safety. In order to escape from
the Cyclops's cave, Odysseus wanted to blind the Cyclops. To do this, he carved
a large stave which he planned to use against the Cyclops and poke his eye out.
But in ...

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