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The Odyssey

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The Odyssey	comment	The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of the epics of The Trojan Cycle and one of the oldest recorded stories. The original was reputedly composed by the blind poet Homer and transmitted orally until it was (according to tradition) written down and standardized at the behest of the Athenian tyrant Peisistratus in about 550 BC.The Odyssey focuses on Odysseus (the Latinized name Ulysses is sometimes used in English), king of Ithaca, a small island off the west coast of Greece. After the successful sacking of Troy, which took ten years (depicted partially in The Iliad), Odysseus earns the ire of Poseidon on his way home by blinding Polyphemus, the cyclops son of Poseidon, and boasting about it. In response, Poseidon intercedes for Polyphemus and makes Odysseus's journey back to Ithaca as miserable as possible as revenge, leaving him the sole survivor. Meanwhile, Ithaca is taken over by a large amount of suitors, all of whom are trying to win Penelope's hand in marriage. Penelope is having none of it and tries to keep them away, and Telemachus, son of Odysseus and Penelope, sets out to look for his father.Because of its age, the poem will be the Ur-Example or Trope Maker of quite a few of the following tropes...and we can't forget to mention that the Odyssey became a word in the English lexicon for a particularly long and complex journey.Definitely not to be confused with Assassin's Creed: Odyssey although the game is set in Ancient Greece and focuses on a hero going on an epic journey amidst a major conflict in Greek history much like the poem.
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The Odyssey / int_1242b9d4	type	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal
The Odyssey / int_1242b9d4	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: Very much averted when Calypso takes a fancy to the handsome sailor stranded on her island. Yes, Odysseus lets her drag him to her bed because it's a bad idea to say no to a goddess when you cannot run anywhere, but it's mentioned he spends his days weeping on the beach and is aching for his wife.
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The Odyssey / int_13945ede	type	IAmAHumanitarian
The Odyssey / int_13945ede	comment	I Am a Humanitarian: Not only Polyphemus but also the Lestrygonian people, who ate the crewmembers of several of the ships in Odysseus's small fleet. His ship is the only one to escape. There's also Scylla. In a roundabout way, so is Circe. Pork was one of the most commonly eaten meats in ancient Greece. So when she turns Odysseus's crew into pigs and starts feeding them acorns, it's clear she is fattening them up to butcher later and eat.
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The Odyssey / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Odyssey / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Odysseus bragging after blinding Polyphemus. In some tellings, he taunts the Cyclops first, which nearly gets their boat hit by a thrown rock. Odysseus's men tell him to shut up before he gets them all killed, but he keeps going, which is the point where he gives his name.
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The Odyssey / int_199f1681	type	Pet Positive Identification
The Odyssey / int_199f1681	comment	Pet Positive Identification: Odysseus's dog Argos is initially the only one to recognize him when he returns from his adventures.
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The Odyssey / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
The Odyssey / int_1aa08f77	comment	Multiple Endings: At the end of Homer's poem, Odysseus and Penelope are reunited, but he still has to go on his pilgrimage to appease Poseidon. So what happens next? Numerous Greek and other writers from antiquity provide a plethora of different answers: As Tiresias foretold, once Odysseus gets the thing with carrying the oar inland over with, he and Penelope live happily together and get another son called Ptoliporthes ("ravager of cities") until Odysseus's peaceful death. Penelope did not actually remain faithful to Odysseus and is banished from Ithaca, later giving birth to the god Pan, who was fathered either by Hermes or because Penelope had sex with all suitors ("pan" means "all", get it?). Telemachus ends up marrying Nestor's daughter Polycaste (whom he met in The Odyssey) or Nausicaa (who felt attracted to his father). Odysseus marries queen Callidice of the Thesprotians while Penelope is still alive, is defeated in battle (with Ares fighting on the other side), and is succeeded by his and Callidice's son, Polypoetes. The suitors' families bring their grievances to the court of Neoptolemus, Achilles's son. He orders Odysseus into exile, hoping to gain Odysseus's island Cephallenia. In this version, Odysseus ends up marrying the daughter of King Thoas of Aitolia (the resultant son: Leontophonus). In order to avenge his son Palamedes, whose death before Troy was engineered by Odysseus, Nauplius spreads the false news of Odysseus's death. Penelope throws herself off a cliff into the sea but is either transformed into a duck or rescued by ducks. A much later history has an ancient Odysseus revisiting the places where he went, finding that almost everyone has either died or gone away. When he reaches Calypso's island, the only character still around, he dies and the nymph buries Odysseus there. Finally, a real feast of tropes popular in Italy. In one of the lost epics of The Trojan Cycle, the Telegony, Odysseus fathers a son, Telegonus, with Circe. When Telegonus comes of age he goes out to seek his father, but when he arrives in Ithaca the two get into a fight without recognizing each other, and he unintentionally kills Odysseus. When the truth emerges, Circe brings him, Telemachus, and Penelope to her island of Aiaia and grants the latter two immortality. In the end, Circe marries Telemachus, and Penelope marries Telegonus, which results in a Tangled Family Tree. The story was also dramatized by Sophocles in the lost tragedy Odysseus Akanthoplex, with the added detail that an oracle foretells that Odysseus will be killed by his own son, so he banishes Telemachus to another island...but, of course, the oracle wasn't referring to him.
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The Odyssey / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Odyssey / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Odysseus will do anything to return to his wife and son. And he's willing to face monsters, witches, and POSEIDON himself if he has to. On the flip side, Poseidon intervenes when Polyphemus begs him to make Odysseus' journey back to Ithaca a living nightmare... if he is indeed fated to return home.
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The Odyssey / int_1f39b662	type	Discard and Draw
The Odyssey / int_1f39b662	comment	Discard and Draw: Odysseus loses all the treasure he looted from Troy when his ship sinks. But the Phaeacians give him even more treasure when they send him home on one of their ships.
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The Odyssey / int_1f6854a4	type	Tragic Intangibility
The Odyssey / int_1f6854a4	comment	Tragic Intangibility: Odysseus attempts to hug his mother's ghost not once but three times in Book 11, only to pass through her and be left with his sorrow.
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The Odyssey / int_1fb9864	type	Liminal Being
The Odyssey / int_1fb9864	comment	Liminal Being: Tiresias manages to hit this trope three ways because he was both a man and a woman alive; he is a Blind Seer and so can both see more and less than ordinary people; and as a ghost, he's both alive and dead.
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The Odyssey / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Odyssey / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Adaptations or retellings have a habit of writing the story chronologically rather than using the framing device of Odysseus recounting his story. Conversely, this usually expands Books 9-12 (the part that deals with everything between Odysseus leaving Troy and him meeting Calypso) from a sixth of the story to the majority of it. (This has also led to many events that were basically footnotes in the original being iconic setpieces in mythology.)
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The Odyssey / int_2507ad6b	type	Accidental Pornomancer
The Odyssey / int_2507ad6b	comment	Accidental Pornomancer: On his way home, Odysseus spends years as the bedmate of two beautiful women: the Hot Witch Circe and the sea nymph Calypso. Neither option is entirely by choice, Calypso significantly less so than Circe. The narrative justifies any choice Odysseus might've had in the matter by saying that he never stopped loving or wishing to return to his wife.
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The Odyssey / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
The Odyssey / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: Everything before Odysseus's arrival in the land of the Phaeacians is told in flashback.
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The Odyssey / int_25e44fa8	type	There's No Place Like Home
The Odyssey / int_25e44fa8	comment	There's No Place Like Home: Ithaca to Odysseus. Granted, it is described as rocky and his life there was frugal, but that's where he wants to return to, so he rejects offers to stay in more pleasant and richer places.
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The Odyssey / int_266755d4	type	Watch It Stoned
The Odyssey / int_266755d4	comment	Watch It Stoned: The Lotus Eaters, who eat nothing but a fruit that causes them a sort of never-ending lethargic contentment.
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The Odyssey / int_275847f0	type	Not Just a Tournament
The Odyssey / int_275847f0	comment	Not Just a Tournament: The end of the story involves an archery tournament planned by Odysseus. While he was away, a large number of people tried to steal his kingdom by marrying his wife (Odysseus is believed to be dead). His wife offers her hand in marriage to the one who can win the tournament, but Odysseus kills everyone who shows up.
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The Odyssey / int_275d19ee	type	Birds of a Feather
The Odyssey / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: Odysseus and Penelope. They even unknowingly echo each other to drive this home.
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The Odyssey / int_27705cf8	type	Textile Work Is Feminine
The Odyssey / int_27705cf8	comment	Textile Work Is Feminine: Penelope's work to hold off the suitors. Many of the other women, for instance, when Hermes goes to Calypso in the fifth book, she is weaving; Odysseus encounters Nausicaa when she and her companions have just finished doing the laundry; when Telemachus leaves Sparta, Helen gives him a dress she made herself as a present for his future bride.
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The Odyssey / int_27fdd6a1	type	Divine Parentage
The Odyssey / int_27fdd6a1	comment	Hermes and Zeus also help on a few occasions, which may or may not have to do with the fact that Odysseus is Hermes's great-grandson and therefore Zeus's great-great-grandson.
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The Odyssey / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Odyssey / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Odysseus, as proven again and again throughout the story. Upon some in-depth consideration, Penelope qualifies for this. She's clearly in command of her conversation with a certain stranger in figuring out his purpose there, she's been manipulating a throng of men straight for three years, and on top of that, she sets up an archery tournament she knew the suitors would fail, which basically spearheads Odysseus's reclamation of his home. To top it off, when Odysseus finally reveals his identity, she uses a masterful Bluff the Impostor to make sure he truly is who he claims to be (which, of course, he is). And people wonder why Odysseus would ditch a goddess for this woman.
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The Odyssey / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Odyssey / int_2a090d00	comment	Calypso herself sees a different kind of double standard at work. When Hermes tells her Zeus has ordered her to release Odysseus, she complains that the gods never allow goddesses to enjoy relationships with mortals, citing the examples of Orion and Iasion, the lovers of Eos and Demeter respectively, who were killed by gods, yet gods screw around with mortal women all the time. The Olympians having a Double Standard is unsurprising. Greek gods had a surprisingly undivine habit of being more erratic, tyrannical, dishonorable, or just plain childish than even most mortals. Socrates noticed that and he wasn't the only one.
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The Odyssey / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Odyssey / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: In the Underworld, Odysseus expresses genuine terror at the thought of meeting Persephone. Oddly enough, he doesn't extend as much fearful respect to her husband. No one on Odysseus' crew wants to pass between Scylla and Charybdis, and Charybdis in particular terrifies everyone on the ship. And this fear is very much justified.
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The Odyssey / int_2f95aaf0	type	Father's Quest
The Odyssey / int_2f95aaf0	comment	Father's Quest: After being ten years away from his family, Odysseus wants to return to his wife and son. And an angry and vengeful Poseidon won't stop him!
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The Odyssey / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
The Odyssey / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: The princess of the Laestrygonians, the cannibalistic giants; she's strong, good-looking, and implied to be young as her mother and father are way bigger than she is.
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The Odyssey / int_31fdc77a	type	You Wake Up on a Beach
The Odyssey / int_31fdc77a	comment	You Wake Up on a Beach: Odysseus wakes up naked on a beach at the end of Book 5 (shortly after the protagonist is introduced: the first four books focus on Telemachus). He is found by Nausicaa and her maids.
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The Odyssey / int_32406d30	type	Wait for Your Date
The Odyssey / int_32406d30	comment	Wait for Your Date: Penelope, the acting regent of Ithaca as the wife of Odysseus, kept a bevy of suitors housed and fed in a reception hall while waiting at least nine years for her husband to return home from the Trojan War. Almost all of these suitors were opportunists, social climbers, wannabes, or straight-up mooches, leeching off the Ithaca treasury. Greek custom of the time forbade Penelope from shooing them away, as that would be an affront to Zeus; however, she also remained circumspectly distant from them, allowing only servants to content them.
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The Odyssey / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
The Odyssey / int_362461f6	comment	Calypso finds Odysseus shipwrecked on her island and takes him as a companion (read: Sex Slave). Without a ship, crew, or any means of escaping the island, Odysseus goes along with her requests.
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The Odyssey / int_3b38cdbc	type	Keep the Home Fires Burning
The Odyssey / int_3b38cdbc	comment	Keep the Home Fires Burning: What Penelope does back in Ithaca while waiting for Odysseus to return.
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The Odyssey / int_3d15a154	type	Muggle in Mage Custody
The Odyssey / int_3d15a154	comment	Muggle in Mage Custody: Odysseus gets stuck for a year with the sorceress Circe who turns his men into pigs. Later on, he is also forced to remain for seven years with the nymph Calypso.
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The Odyssey / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Odyssey / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Odysseus, Telemachus, and two of his loyal servants (all armed to the teeth) are able to take out the many suitors.
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The Odyssey / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Odyssey / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: There were a lot of folk traditions saying that Penelope was not faithful to Odysseus, with her giving birth to Pan (with the father being either Apollo, Hermes or the 108 suitors — yes, she had sex with all of them) and was banished by Odysseus to Mantineia when he returned. The Odyssey, if it doesn't predate these myths, chose to remove all of them to depict her as a tragic figure.
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The Odyssey / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Odyssey / int_3fca462c	comment	Athena, goddess of wisdom and intelligent warfare, has a long-standing friendly interest in the resourceful and crafty Odysseus, which she also extends to his son and wise Penelope. She intervenes on many occasions, usually taking the form of various friends, relatives, and acquaintances of the three. By the end of the whole thing, she outright puts a stop to a conflict that was soon to get very bloody.
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The Odyssey / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
The Odyssey / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The servants and maids who transfer their loyalties to the suitors are implied to be this. With Melantho, the maid who became Eurymachus's lover, it's explicit, as Homer points out that Penelope had raised her like a daughter. When upbraiding Antinous for trying to kill her son, Penelope points out that Antinous's father took refuge with Odysseus to escape retaliation for his piracy. Antinous's father later launches a rebellion over his son's death and is the only one to be killed before Athena settles everything.
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The Odyssey / int_3ff34221	type	To Hell and Back
The Odyssey / int_3ff34221	comment	To Hell and Back: Hades is one of Odysseus's stops.
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The Odyssey / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
The Odyssey / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots: It cannot be overstated just how dumb Odysseus's crew is. From opening the bag of winds to eating Helios's sacred cattle to staying too late sacking a city, the only useful thing they do on the entire trip is row the boat and tie Odysseus to the mast when going past the Sirens.
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The Odyssey / int_443774b4	type	Narrative Poem
The Odyssey / int_443774b4	comment	Narrative Poem: Not quite the Ur-Example... but one of the earliest examples, nonetheless
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The Odyssey / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
The Odyssey / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: Odysseus does this quite a few times, even when visiting his own father after killing the suitors. It's as if he can't stop doing it.
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The Odyssey / int_454d9422	type	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies
The Odyssey / int_454d9422	comment	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Helios sics Zeus on your ass, lightning falls, and everyone dies.
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The Odyssey / int_46189c48	type	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes
The Odyssey / int_46189c48	comment	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes: Odysseus is actually an aversion; he has no special powers beyond being a really devious, clever, strong, and determined man.
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The Odyssey / int_4885c04b	type	Road Trip Plot
The Odyssey / int_4885c04b	comment	Road Trip Plot: The bulk of the story is Odysseus's long, complicated voyage home, and all the strange things that happen to him on the way.
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The Odyssey / int_49cf2258	type	Hanging Around
The Odyssey / int_49cf2258	comment	Hanging Around: The Odyssey has the oldest recorded example of hanging as a form of execution in the part of the poem in which Odysseus returns home and is met with all of the suitors who have tried to woo his wife in his absence. He slaughters all of them and then punishes the 12 maids who slept with them, first by forcing them to clear away the suitors' dead bodies, then by hanging them all from one rope.
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The Odyssey / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
The Odyssey / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: When Odysseus finally reveals himself to the suitors, Eurymachus attempts to escape death by offering to compensate for the flocks they'd slaughtered for their feasts, with interest (essentially trying to bribe his way out), but Odysseus isn't having it.
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The Odyssey / int_4e6cb27f	type	Rambling Old Man Monologue
The Odyssey / int_4e6cb27f	comment	Rambling Old Man Monologue: Just as in The Iliad, when Nestor talks, he talks a lot, mostly about what he's done as long as he can relate it to the current situation. Telemachus finds this out after visiting him to find information on what happened to his father Odysseus, which leads to Telemachus deciding to skip out on Nestor receiving him after realizing Nestor can't really help him much in that regard.
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The Odyssey / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Odyssey / int_50b05d30	comment	Odysseus and his remaining crew escape from the Cyclops when Odysseus has a fit of hubris and mocks the injured Cyclops, along with revealing his true identity. Sure, the mountaintop that is thrown at the ship misses. The raging storms, however, do not.
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The Odyssey / int_52873db	type	Classical Cyclops
The Odyssey / int_52873db	comment	Classical Cyclops: Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon and a sea nymph, a shepherd, and a man-eater; his single eye proves his downfall when Odysseus puts it out to save himself and his crew, but he's able to call on his father to curse Odysseus for this.
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The Odyssey / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Odyssey / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: As is standard for classical epic, much of the story is told in flashbacks.
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The Odyssey / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
The Odyssey / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: The Trope Namer (though not the 'machine' part).
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The Odyssey / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
The Odyssey / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: Odysseus's goal after going home.
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The Odyssey / int_5715081d	type	Battle-Interrupting Shout
The Odyssey / int_5715081d	comment	Battle-Interrupting Shout: Athena does this when the townsfolk gather to get revenge for the slain suitors against Odysseus. She forces them to stop fighting and make peace.
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The Odyssey / int_5a4d64c3	type	Only One Afterlife
The Odyssey / int_5a4d64c3	comment	Only One Afterlife: Odysseus finds in Hades not only deceased members of his family but also other dead heroes such as Orion and Ajax, showing the belief of those times of mortals ending up there with no distinctions. When the souls of the dead suitors arrive in Hades they encounter Achilles and Agamemnon.
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The Odyssey / int_5aa60027	type	Tell Me About My Father
The Odyssey / int_5aa60027	comment	Tell Me About My Father: The first few chapters have Telemachus setting out to Sparta to find out what happened to his dad.
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The Odyssey / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Odyssey / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Surviving requires cunning, daring, and ruthlessness. Even when you have nothing left, you still have your wits and can find a way to escape any trap, even those set by the Gods.
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The Odyssey / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
The Odyssey / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: It's a plot point often overlooked by modern audiences: the main reason that Penelope's suitors had to die was not that they were trying to seduce Penelope, but that they were a bunch of moochers. Overstaying their welcome, eating Penelope out of house and home, and taking advantage of the female servants, they were abusing their privileges under xenia and thus incurred the wrath of Zeus. By contrast, Odysseus shows up at the swineherd's home dressed as a poor beggar. Eumaeus gladly welcomes and feeds him. Polyphemus violates hospitality by eating some of Odysseus's men who have taken refuge in his cave. Odysseus warns him that Zeus will punish him for this, but Polyphemus believes that he's not subject to Zeus because he is a son of Poseidon. It's also worth noting that Odysseus and his men had immediately started stuffing themselves with Polyphemus's cheese and goat's milk stores without thinking as to whose hospitality they themselves were violating. Odysseus actually recognizes that indulging themselves and fleeing is a serious violation of xenia, hence why he insists on waiting for the owner of the cave to return so he could offer a gift of wine as compensation. That is what gets him and his men trapped by Polyphemus.
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The Odyssey / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Odyssey / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Compared with some of the more well-known Greek heroes, Odysseus is a relatively normal guy. He doesn't have supernatural strength like Heracles, isn't invincible like Achilles, doesn't rely on magic items like Perseus, and isn't directly related to any of the Greek gods.note Though tradition claims that he's the great-grandson of Hermes. He's just a smart dude in good shape who just happens to have Athena's favor.
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The Odyssey / int_64e6f231	type	No Matter How Much I Beg
The Odyssey / int_64e6f231	comment	No Matter How Much I Beg: Odysseus with the Sirens.
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The Odyssey / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
The Odyssey / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: The shades of Hades, who seem to crave fresh blood to drink but are otherwise friendly to our hero.
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The Odyssey / int_69771700	type	Ocean of Adventure
The Odyssey / int_69771700	comment	Ocean of Adventure: The Odyssey is in many ways the Trope Maker and Trope Codifier. The middle third of the story follows the long travels of Odysseus and his dwindling crew after they're swept far from known waters and into the vastness of the ocean, after which come long years of wandering between distant lands and islands home to cannibal giants, a powerful witch, the god of the winds and stranger entities, until Odysseus is eventually able, after ten years of travels, to limp his way back to the edge of the civilized world.
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The Odyssey / int_69e4f7b7	type	Historical Fantasy
The Odyssey / int_69e4f7b7	comment	Historical Fantasy: Set during the Greek Bronze Age and although the actual date of composition was debated, it was at least a few hundred years later.
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The Odyssey / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
The Odyssey / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: Of all the tragic or ignominious deaths suffered by Odysseus's crew, the most embarrassing has to go to Elpenor, who got drunk, climbed up on Circe's roof, and then forgot where he was in the morning and fell to his death. Odysseus doesn't even find out what happened to him until he meets his ghost in the underworld.
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The Odyssey / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Odyssey / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The flashback when Euryclea recognizes Odysseus (known as "Odysseus's Scar" after Erich Auerbach's essay) features an origin for Odysseus's name which means "Child of Pain".
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The Odyssey / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
The Odyssey / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: The suitors, for three years at least.
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The Odyssey / int_71019994	type	Unwanted Harem
The Odyssey / int_71019994	comment	Unwanted Harem: Dozens of foreign nobles seek Penelope's hand in marriage after her husband is presumed dead. He returns and kills them all. It's fair to say that he not only kills them for being pretenders but also because for 20 years they mooched from Odysseus's estate and fortune. Ulysses has all the ladies from Ithaca behind him, though they want to hang him by the short hairs for managing to kill basically an entire generation of able-bodied men in The Trojan War, on his little trip back and on that last number he pulled by killing his wife's pretenders.
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The Odyssey / int_72073a3	type	Isle of Giant Horrors
The Odyssey / int_72073a3	comment	Isle of Giant Horrors: The Ur-Example, where Odysseus and his crew dock on an island inhabited by a Cyclops named Polyphemus, who imprisons them in his cave and eats them two by two. They defeat the monster by stabbing his eye out with a stick.
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The Odyssey / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Odyssey / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: What we would call an Overused Running Gag.
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The Odyssey / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Odyssey / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Irus challenges Odysseus when the latter impinges on his turf. It doesn't end well for Irus.
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The Odyssey / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Odyssey / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Odysseus, you have all these clever schemes and are universally acclaimed the smartest man in the Greek expedition. Why, then, do you insist on telling Polyphemus your name when you know full well that his father Poseidon is the one god of all the Olympians (all of whom, by the way, are still kind of smarting from that time you Greeks destroyed all their temples in Troy) most capable of making the voyage home to your island kingdom a living hell?
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The Odyssey / int_735b3587	type	Naked First Impression
The Odyssey / int_735b3587	comment	Naked First Impression: Nausicaa is the only one of the group of maidens who's not afraid of a naked Odysseus after he shipwrecked.
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The Odyssey / int_7485b8b1	type	Accidental Adultery
The Odyssey / int_7485b8b1	comment	Accidental Adultery: Averted; presumed-widow Penelope has no shortage of suitors — some quite forceful — while presumed-dead Odysseus is Lost at Sea, but she stays faithful for ten years. More faithful than Odysseus himself, for that matter, although "he never gave consent in his heart."
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The Odyssey / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Odyssey / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Aoleus's sons are married to their sisters.
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The Odyssey / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
The Odyssey / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Odysseus demonstrates this many, many times throughout the story.
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The Odyssey / int_7c7f441	type	Historical Domain Crossover
The Odyssey / int_7c7f441	comment	Historical Domain Crossover: Odysseus goes to the Underworld and sees mythological villains being punished for their crimes, like the trickster Sisyphus, the husband-murdering daughters of Danaos;, and the cannibalistic Tantalus.
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The Odyssey / int_7d1ee5b2	type	Trojan Horse
The Odyssey / int_7d1ee5b2	comment	Trojan Horse: Given a mention in the Odyssey, but despite common perceptions never shows up personally in Homer's works. The epics they did appear in have been lost.
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The Odyssey / int_7d561d58	type	Too Awesome to Use
The Odyssey / int_7d561d58	comment	Too Awesome to Use: Odysseus's bow, which is so valuable he didn't bring it to the Trojan War, where it would certainly have been extremely useful.
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The Odyssey / int_7e676cdf	type	Engagement Challenge
The Odyssey / int_7e676cdf	comment	Engagement Challenge: Penelope announces to the suitors that whoever can string her husband's bow and shoot an arrow through a straight row of 12 axes will be the one to marry her... And providing a bow she knows they can't string. As expected the suitors fail completely. Odysseus, in disguise as a beggar, is able to win the contest. He then reveals himself to the suitors and a Roaring Rampage of Revenge ensues.
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The Odyssey / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Odyssey / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Odysseus and his crew end up making some pretty stupid mistakes that really doom the journey home. Odysseus and his remaining crew escape from the Cyclops when Odysseus has a fit of hubris and mocks the injured Cyclops, along with revealing his true identity. Sure, the mountaintop that is thrown at the ship misses. The raging storms, however, do not. After being given a magical bag of wind from King Aeolus, Odysseus's crew is convinced that it contains gold and open the bag, releasing the winds that send them right back to Aeolus's kingdom; the king refuses to replace them, as he assumes the crew is either cursed or downright stupid. To add insult to injury, they were right off the shores of Ithaca. Then, when the crew is marooned on the isle of Helios, the crew gives into their hunger and slaughters several of the cattle despite being explicitly told not to (at the instigation of the same man who insisted they put ashore for the night when Odysseus wanted to forestall temptation by not landing on the island at all). This results in the ship getting destroyed, all of Odysseus's crew dead, and Odysseus being stranded on the island of Calypso for several years.
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The Odyssey / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Odyssey / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Everything before Odysseus's arrival in the land of the Phaeacians is told in flashback.
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The Odyssey / int_80288048	type	Nonchalant Dodge
The Odyssey / int_80288048	comment	Nonchalant Dodge: When Odysseus returns home disguised as a beggar, one of the suitors, Ctesippus, throws an ox hoof at him. Odysseus dodges it with the slightest tilt of his head, then gives Ctesippus a grim smile in return.
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The Odyssey / int_816bc80a	type	Ghostly Death Reveal
The Odyssey / int_816bc80a	comment	Ghostly Death Reveal: Odysseus is surprised to find his mother Anticlea in the Underworld, and we learn that she died of grief or suicide during the many years of his absence. Also in the underworld, Odysseus, to his distress, also finds the ghost of Agamemnon, whom he last saw when the Greeks departed from Troy, and asks him how he met his death. Agamemnon reveals that his wife had remarried while he was gone, and her new husband killed him upon returning home.
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The Odyssey / int_82410415	type	Scylla and Charybdis
The Odyssey / int_82410415	comment	Scylla and Charybdis: Trope Maker. Notably, Odysseus ends up having to choose between them twice. First, he's with his crew on a ship and orders them to pass by Scylla. Scylla (giant tentacled beast) kills six men, but it is better than Charybdis (enormous whirlpool), who would have swallowed up the entire ship. Later on, Odysseus has to pass by them in a raft and chooses Charybdis this time. Being alone, he's able to cling to a tree near the whirlpool and makes it back onto the raft after it's swallowed and then expelled.
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The Odyssey / int_835f53f3	type	Pals with Jesus
The Odyssey / int_835f53f3	comment	Pals With Gods: Many examples, and on a few occasions Homer lampshades Odysseus's piety — not stinting with the burnt offerings to the gods even when there isn't much around that can be sacrificed. Athena, goddess of wisdom and intelligent warfare, has a long-standing friendly interest in the resourceful and crafty Odysseus, which she also extends to his son and wise Penelope. She intervenes on many occasions, usually taking the form of various friends, relatives, and acquaintances of the three. By the end of the whole thing, she outright puts a stop to a conflict that was soon to get very bloody. Hermes and Zeus also help on a few occasions, which may or may not have to do with the fact that Odysseus is Hermes's great-grandson and therefore Zeus's great-great-grandson.
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The Odyssey / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
The Odyssey / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Two of Odysseus's slaves had been free-born, to high status, before they were kidnapped. When Odysseus is disguised as a beggar, he claims that this happened to him while he was in Egypt.
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The Odyssey / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
The Odyssey / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: Zeus sends a bolt from the blue twice: first as an omen to Odysseus that he will be victorious; second, as emphasis when Odysseus strings his bow as an omen to the suitors that they're screwed.
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The Odyssey / int_869c1b40	type	Now It's My Turn
The Odyssey / int_869c1b40	comment	Now It's My Turn: In the final confrontation between Odysseus and the suitors, a group of the suitors, led by Agelaus, throw volleys of spears at Odysseus and his three allies. The suitors' entire first salvo misses cleanly; Odysseus, spurred by this, basically says, "Our turn, boys!" and the four of them throw spears back, killing one suitor each.
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The Odyssey / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Odyssey / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Odysseus does this to Polyphemus the Cyclops. This bites him in the ass when Polyphemus, having learned Odysseus's name through his boasting, invokes a favor from his father Poseidon to either stop Odysseus from returning home or, if he is indeed fated to return, to make his journey home a living nightmare. Daddy delivers.
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The Odyssey / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Odyssey / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Charybdis; while Scylla has a strange but at least somewhat discernible form, Charybdis's description is always bizarre and terrifying, waffling between a massive bladder or stomach with flippers that's constantly swallowing and vomiting seawater or a giant, moving, sentient and hungry whirlpool.
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The Odyssey / int_89b8bdc0	type	Kind Restraints
The Odyssey / int_89b8bdc0	comment	Kind Restraints: Odysseus had himself tied to a mast to keep from being drawn to the sirens.
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The Odyssey / int_8ccfcf8e	type	Horny Sailors
The Odyssey / int_8ccfcf8e	comment	Horny Sailors: One way of reading the Siren scene is that the whole crew can't resist the sexy sight and song of the Sirens, even though it means shipwreck. A less sexualized reading, of course, is that the song itself is magically enchanted to be irresistible. When they try to lure Odysseus, they offer him knowledge.
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The Odyssey / int_8cd96e6c	type	Nasal Trauma
The Odyssey / int_8cd96e6c	comment	Nasal Trauma: Odysseus deals with treacherous goatherd Melanthios by cutting off his nose, ears, genitals, hands, and feet, in that order. If the bleed-out doesn't kill him, septic infection will.
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The Odyssey / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Odyssey / int_90e31482	comment	When upbraiding Antinous for trying to kill her son, Penelope points out that Antinous's father took refuge with Odysseus to escape retaliation for his piracy. Antinous's father later launches a rebellion over his son's death and is the only one to be killed before Athena settles everything.
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The Odyssey / int_934937b2	type	Bluff the Impostor
The Odyssey / int_934937b2	comment	Bluff the Impostor: When a stranger walks up to Penelope and claims to be her lost husband Odysseus, Penelope casually asks for Odysseus's bed to be prepared but outside the bedroom. The stranger, who really is Odysseus, is dismayed by this, since he had built the bed himself on the stump of an olive tree, making it impossible to move the bed without sawing off the stump (something only he and Penelope knew about, supposedly). As he recounts all the work he put into making it, he realizes that she has just been testing him. The funny thing is that he expected her to test him and told his son that she would, and he still fell for it.
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The Odyssey / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
The Odyssey / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: Circe transforms men into animals if they displease her. She demands that Odysseus sleep with her for her to turn his already-transformed crew back into humans and let them be on their way. Calypso finds Odysseus shipwrecked on her island and takes him as a companion (read: Sex Slave). Without a ship, crew, or any means of escaping the island, Odysseus goes along with her requests.
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The Odyssey / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Odyssey / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Averted when faced with the prospect of Scylla and Charybdis. Odysseus inquires if there's a way he can neutralize both of them and pass through the strait without losing any more men. Circe makes it clear that the best he can do is steer closer to Scylla and minimize his losses.
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The Odyssey / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Odyssey / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Poseidon. Granted, he has a good reason for it, seeing as Odysseus had blinded one of his sons.
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The Odyssey / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
The Odyssey / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: Odysseus says Nausicaa resembles the goddess Artemis.
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The Odyssey / int_9793f1b9	type	Solitary Sorceress
The Odyssey / int_9793f1b9	comment	Solitary Sorceress: Circe is a famous early example. She lives on an island and turns any visitors into pigs for her larder.
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The Odyssey / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
The Odyssey / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Telemachus says that well, his mother tells him he's Odysseus's son. It's more likely, though, that he doesn't doubt whose son he actually is but whether he's worthy of being the son of such a great man.
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The Odyssey / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
The Odyssey / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Odysseus, according to Harold Bloom, is a man you don't want to cross or be around too long. He's willing to do nearly anything to survive, including sack towns and villages, sell people into slavery, lie, and manipulate, and in the end, after retaking Ithaca, he brutally murders not only the suitors but also the palace servant girls in highly brutal ways. Of course, the Greek idea of The Hero differs entirely from the Christian, chivalric, and modern conception.
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The Odyssey / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
The Odyssey / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: When Odysseus finally gets back to Ithaca, he's at first convinced the Phaecians betrayed him and just left him on any old coast, as he's been away so long he can't recognize the place anymore.
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The Odyssey / int_9c9115c1	type	ArcherArchetype
The Odyssey / int_9c9115c1	comment	Archer Archetype: Odysseus is quite capable of using a sword in close combat, but he seems to be more famous for his amazing bow, which nobody else is even strong (or skilled) enough to string, much less shoot (though, as the epic states, Telemachus might have managed to string the bow on the fourth try had Odysseus not stopped him). He's also a sneaky bastard and clever and stealthy too.
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The Odyssey / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
The Odyssey / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Eumaeus the swineherd and the family's old nurse Eurycleia.
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The Odyssey / int_9e630d58	type	Exploring the Evil Lair
The Odyssey / int_9e630d58	comment	Exploring the Evil Lair: The Cyclops's cave.
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The Odyssey / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
The Odyssey / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: Possibly the oldest example in the book. Odysseus told Polyphemus his name was "Nobody" (Οὖτις). When the Cyclops started screaming that he had been blinded, his brothers asked who had done this foul deed. The Cyclops replied that "Nobody has blinded me", so his brothers told him to shut up with the screaming over things that hadn't happened. As an added bit of wordplay, "Nobody" can also be stated as μη τις, while μητις (one word) meant "cunning" in Ancient Greek.
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The Odyssey / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
The Odyssey / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: Odysseus's actual voyage, which is the most famous part of the story. By contrast, the parts about Ithaca, Telemachus, the suitors, etc., have a normal plotline.
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The Odyssey / int_a0bfddf0	type	Real Men Eat Meat
The Odyssey / int_a0bfddf0	comment	Real Men Eat Meat: Being out of meat and forced to eat fish is always seen as a bad thing. Scholars have speculated that pre-Classical Greeks may have had some sort of taboo against eating fish or perhaps the fish in those areas was simply bad. On the other hand, good fishing is mentioned once or twice as a sign of a blessed country.
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The Odyssey / int_a0ce7213	type	My Girl Back Home
The Odyssey / int_a0ce7213	comment	My Girl Back Home: Penelope is one of the most famous examples.
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The Odyssey / int_a122bf2f	type	Blind Seer
The Odyssey / int_a122bf2f	comment	Blind Seer: Tiresias makes a cameo.
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The Odyssey / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Odyssey / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Eat Odysseus's sailors and reap the consequences, Polyphemus. Odysseus, who narrates it, gives a long description of how the eye boils under the hot wooden spike before it gets twisted and ripped out. Also Odysseus and Telemachus torture and murder one of the servants at the end, by poking and gouging their eye.
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The Odyssey / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
The Odyssey / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: When Odysseus is in his beggar disguise, this is a very consistent rule: his loyal servants and family treat him kindly while the suitors and traitors try to kick him out and physically abuse him.
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The Odyssey / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
The Odyssey / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: Athena threatens one of these in the last book when Odysseus tries to go to war again. After the killing of the suitors, several of the suitors' family members form a mob to seek revenge on Odysseus, led by Antinous's father. They turn to flight quickly after Laertes has killed Antinous' father, and Odysseus at once pursues them with the intent to kill them. But Zeus hurls a lightning bolt at the feet of Athena (who is present in her guise as Mentor); Athena understands that Zeus is warning them that he does not want more bloodshed, and tells Odysseus to let them escape, which he does.
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The Odyssey / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
The Odyssey / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: As described in the epic, slaves and masters were not as far apart as in other ages. For instance, the swineherd Eumaeus was raised by Odysseus's mother Anticleia almost like a son alongside her daughter Ctimene and became wealthy enough to buy a slave of his own. And Menelaus makes Megapenthes, his son by a slave, his heir. Part of the reason was that you could very well become a slave if your city was conquered or if you were kidnapped. Eumaeus claims he was of royal blood, kidnapped by Phoenician traders, and a Phoenician slave-woman of his parents who made a bid for freedom.
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The Odyssey / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
The Odyssey / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: The most famous stories relating to Odysseus's journey are part of one of his accounts. He tells completely different stories on other occasions. However, the salient facts of Odysseus's account to the Phaeacians are confirmed by the opening narration and by the dialogue of the gods themselves in various places.
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The Odyssey / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Odyssey / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Funeral rites were a big deal to the Greeks, which is why Agamemnon claiming that his wife did not close his eyes when he died is a shock.
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The Odyssey / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
The Odyssey / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: Odysseus is the only member of his crew to make it back to Ithaca. Only two people survive the slaughter of the suitors: a bard (the suitors had forced him to come along to entertain them) and the herald Medon, (who had acted as Penelope's spy throughout the story). Inverted in the last skirmish in the epilogue; only the leader of the mob of suitors' parents (appropriately, Antinous's father) dies before Athena stops the fighting.
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The Odyssey / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
The Odyssey / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Every single time Odysseus lands on an island, at least a few members of his crew have to die to show that the journey is dangerous. Some get eaten by the Cyclops, others by the Lestrygonians, and one, seemingly unable to find another way to die, falls off a roofnote so that Odysseus can meet him again when he visits Hades on his next stop.
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The Odyssey / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Odyssey / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Irus sees the muscles of the "old beggar" he challenges to a fist-fight. The suitors in general when Odysseus reveals himself after having slain Antinous.
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The Odyssey / int_ad646bba	type	Old Dog
The Odyssey / int_ad646bba	comment	Old Dog: Argos, who dies at an age of at least 20 years.
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The Odyssey / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The Odyssey / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: The first few chapters are this for Telemachus.
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The Odyssey / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
The Odyssey / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: It's an inversion in that the hero is the one gloating, but Odysseus gives a speech like this to Polyphemus after he and his men have escaped from the Cyclops's cave. Predictably, it backfires.
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The Odyssey / int_b2d7b559	type	The Homeward Journey
The Odyssey / int_b2d7b559	comment	The Homeward Journey: Trope Codifier
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The Odyssey / int_b3ae552f	type	Alluring Flowers
The Odyssey / int_b3ae552f	comment	Alluring Flowers: The flowers of the lotus bring people who eat them into a state of vegetative happiness.
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The Odyssey / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
The Odyssey / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiends: The Sirens mentioned above.
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The Odyssey / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Odyssey / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Penelope waits 20 years for a husband who's believed to be dead and never caves to any of the suitors who approach her. Odysseus, on his journey home, ends up in the beds of multiple women, without tarnishing his reputation as a hero. This would already be justified by the societal norms of the time, even assuming either encounter was consensual. For the era, the fact that Odysseus does not have children by any of his female slaves is highly unusual, although here he seems to follow in the footsteps of his father — Homer considers it worth mentioning that Laërtes never touched Eurycleia (Odysseus and Telemachus's nurse) out of fear of offending his wife. Calypso herself sees a different kind of double standard at work. When Hermes tells her Zeus has ordered her to release Odysseus, she complains that the gods never allow goddesses to enjoy relationships with mortals, citing the examples of Orion and Iasion, the lovers of Eos and Demeter respectively, who were killed by gods, yet gods screw around with mortal women all the time. The Olympians having a Double Standard is unsurprising. Greek gods had a surprisingly undivine habit of being more erratic, tyrannical, dishonorable, or just plain childish than even most mortals. Socrates noticed that and he wasn't the only one.
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The Odyssey / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The Odyssey / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Circe transforms men into animals if they displease her. She demands that Odysseus sleep with her for her to turn his already-transformed crew back into humans and let them be on their way.
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The Odyssey / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
The Odyssey / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: In Samuel Butler's translation, when describing the adventures and hijinks of his crew after they set sail from Troy (and before arriving at the Cave of the Cyclops), Odysseus casually mentions that he and his crew sacked a town, raped the women, and sold survivors into slavery. You know, typical Greek Hero stuff.
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The Odyssey / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The Odyssey / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Odysseus and King Menelaus (called the "Red-Haired King"). Menelaus only in some translations. In the original Greek text, he is called xanthos "blond".
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The Odyssey / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
The Odyssey / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Odysseus. The Greeks wouldn't take no for an answer from him because of his famed intelligence. As for his physical abilities, well, among other things, in Phaecia, he hurled a heavy discus much farther than the lighter discuses hurled by the younger men there, and he strung his old bow with ease where the suitors failed, and even Telemachus strugglednote The story itself mentions that Telemachus would eventually have done it had Odysseus not stopped him.
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The Odyssey / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
The Odyssey / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Elpenor, the youngest of Odysseus's men, goes to bed on the roof drunk, wakes up with a hangover, and proceeds to forget he's on the roof, so he falls off it and breaks his neck.
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The Odyssey / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Odyssey / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Odysseus and Penelope. How much time they actually spent together is debatable, but there's no denying they're happy together. By all appearances, Odysseus's parents (until Anticleia's death) and Alcinous and Arete, king and queen of the Phaeacians.
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The Odyssey / int_c0b36b55	type	Prefers Raw Meat
The Odyssey / int_c0b36b55	comment	Prefers Raw Meat: During a Nested Story, Herakles stays the night in a Centaur's home. The Centaur is noted to eat his meat raw despite being civilized enough to understand Sacred Hospitality.
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The Odyssey / int_c3409128	type	Quest to the West
The Odyssey / int_c3409128	comment	Quest to the West: The end goal of the whole story is to get back home to Greece after leaving Troy.
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The Odyssey / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
The Odyssey / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: Odysseus has a really big issue with this. Odysseus does end up taking a very, very long time to get home as a result of it, though his crew arguably suffers more as they end up all dying off, many as a result of his actions.
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The Odyssey / int_c6bc89f7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
The Odyssey / int_c6bc89f7	comment	Curb Stomp Cushion: The battle briefly turns in the other direction after the goatherd acquires some proper armaments for the suitors.
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The Odyssey / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Odyssey / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: It does not work as The Reveal for the readers since they know from the outset who the beggar staying with the swineherd is; still the scene in which Odysseus reveals who he is to his son is a crucial one and both Odysseus and Telemachus are moved to tears, crying more than eagles or vultures robbed of their young.
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The Odyssey / int_c856e477	type	Seamless Spontaneous Lie
The Odyssey / int_c856e477	comment	Seamless Spontaneous Lie: Odysseus is good at making up backstory from whole cloth, which he makes use of when he's trying to keep his identity a secret. It helps that when people press him for certain details, said details are about the person he claimed to have met (Odysseus, i.e., himself), and not about the land he supposedly hailed from.
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The Odyssey / int_c8d6d621	type	I Will Wait for You
The Odyssey / int_c8d6d621	comment	I Will Wait for You: Penelope and his dog, although unusual for the trope, he does come back, making the trope Older Than Feudalism.
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The Odyssey / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
The Odyssey / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: The song of the Sirens.
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The Odyssey / int_cbed680d	type	Stranger Safety
The Odyssey / int_cbed680d	comment	Stranger Safety: Many characters take care of the main hero Odysseus when they don't know him.
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The Odyssey / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Odyssey / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: A lesser example. Menelaus tells Telemachus about the time he was trapped trying to get home from Troy because he had annoyed the gods by neglecting to make sacrifices to them before leaving. To find out how to escape, he had to trap the minor sea god Proteus, which he managed with some advice from a helpful nymph.
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The Odyssey / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Odyssey / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Odysseus slaughters every suitor and twelve maids in his home once he returns. Subverted, though, in that Odysseus spares the kindly herald Medon and the poet Phemiusnote heralds and poets being improper for a pious man to harm. Also, he seemingly took a liking to one of the suitors, Amphinomus, and tried to warn him to leave Ithaca; but, as Homer relates, Athena detained him there and Amphinomus ended up killed by Telemachus.
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The Odyssey / int_cfdb91e1	type	Gate Guardian
The Odyssey / int_cfdb91e1	comment	Gate Guardian: Scylla and Charybdis guard the passage through the Straits of Messina.
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The Odyssey / int_d0bab7f5	comment	Royal Inbreeding: The Phaeacian king Alcinous is married to his brother's daughter Arete. This isn't portrayed as anything unusual for the times. In fact, Alcinous is repeatedly mentioned to love his wife and their children dearly, is The Good King to the Phaeacians, and treats Odysseus generously under the laws of xenia.
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The Odyssey / int_d2cd18c0	type	Forbidden Fruit
The Odyssey / int_d2cd18c0	comment	Forbidden Fruit: Aeolus's bag of winds. The Cattle of the Sun.
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The Odyssey / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Odyssey / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The suitors are shown as unwilling to extend Sacred Hospitality to a simple beggar, even though they've been abusing it themselves for a decade. The fact that this "simple beggar" is the man who owns the house is just the icing on the cake and further justifies Odysseus's Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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The Odyssey / int_d5929047	type	Revealing Injury
The Odyssey / int_d5929047	comment	Revealing Injury: Or revealing scar. Odysseus's old nurse figures out who he is when she sees his old hunting scar.
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The Odyssey / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Odyssey / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Odysseus and Athena. The first thing they do after Athena throws off her disguise is argue.
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The Odyssey / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Odyssey / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Odysseus protests that eating travelers goes against Sacred Hospitality. Polyphemus, as a son of Poseidon, believes himself immune to repercussions.
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The Odyssey / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The Odyssey / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Pretty much the Ur-Example.
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The Odyssey / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
The Odyssey / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Except Odysseus does. No matter how much Poseidon and the seas throw at him, no matter what freaks go at him, he still returns home. But not the rest of his crew, who were fated to die away from home.
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The Odyssey / int_db361e64	type	Princess Classic
The Odyssey / int_db361e64	comment	Princess Classic: Nausicaa, personifying an Unbuilt Trope. As the princess of Phaecia, she is the most beautiful girl in the land, outshining her maids as Artemis must outshine her attendants. Odysseus even comments on her beauty when he meets her (although he could be flattering). She quickly proves herself courteous and compassionate, graciously leading Odysseus to her father's palace while always having a mind for her virtuous reputation. She does not, however, win the prince she loves (Odysseus) and live happily ever after... she merely helps Odysseus to his happy ending.
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The Odyssey / int_dca44146	type	Taking Advantage of Generosity
The Odyssey / int_dca44146	comment	Taking Advantage of Generosity: Penelope's suitors stayed a long time and thinned out Odysseus's herds by eating them. No wonder he killed them all in the end!
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The Odyssey / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Odyssey / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: Odysseus is a king, after all.
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The Odyssey / int_e3a7d2e6	type	Karmic Jackpot
The Odyssey / int_e3a7d2e6	comment	Only two people survive the slaughter of the suitors: a bard (the suitors had forced him to come along to entertain them) and the herald Medon, (who had acted as Penelope's spy throughout the story).
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The Odyssey / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Odyssey / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Odysseus is deadfast on returning to his homestead no matter what anyone throws at him. He only thinks of giving up once, jumping off his boat during a storm made by his own men. He, of course, doesn't go through with it because how could he tell the story?
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The Odyssey / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Odyssey / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: The herald Medon is Penelope's spy among the suitors, and is the major reason Penelope is aware of the suitors' activities. Medon is spared from death when Odysseus carries out his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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The Odyssey / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
The Odyssey / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: When the parents of the suitors learn that Odysseus has slaughtered their sons, they become enraged. So they arm themselves and march on Ithaca so they might avenge their deaths. However, Athena decides that Odysseus has endured enough carnage and so she takes from the parents' minds the knowledge that Odysseus was responsible for the death of their sons. With no reason to fight, they turn around and return home and peace prevails.
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The Odyssey / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
The Odyssey / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Yes, even long before Freud was born. Among the suitors, the main three fit the mold: Antinous is clearly the id, being the biggest jerk and the least sympathetic. Eurymachus fits the role of ego, being a more moderate character than Antinous but still just as evil at his core. Amphinomous seems to be the superego, as he is one of the main three who thinks most of what the gods might do to them.
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The Odyssey / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Odyssey / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In one ending, Odysseus is killed by the sea. He dies on land, killed by a spear whose tip was made from a stingray's tail.
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The Odyssey / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Odyssey / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: While most, such as the gods, definitely disagree with this sentiment Odysseus himself rejects Calypso's offer of immortality while being trapped on an island in order to remain free and to return to his wife and family.
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The Odyssey / int_eb391316	type	Widow Mistreatment
The Odyssey / int_eb391316	comment	Widow Mistreatment: When her husband Odysseus is thought to be dead, Penelope has 108 suitors gather around her kingdom to dine and party, harass her servants, slaves, and even her son Telemachus all the while strong-arming her to find a new husband.
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The Odyssey / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
The Odyssey / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Odysseus finds that having a nymph wanting to sex you up 24/7 gets old after seven years. Calypso, however, has no intention of letting go until she's ordered to by Zeus himself.
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The Odyssey / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Odyssey / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Inverted in the last skirmish in the epilogue; only the leader of the mob of suitors' parents (appropriately, Antinous's father) dies before Athena stops the fighting.
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The Odyssey / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Odyssey / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The Phaeacians help Odysseus reach Ithaca, but, on their way back, Poseidon discovers it and sinks their boat by turning it to stone.
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The Odyssey / int_ee637bc2	type	You Have Waited Long Enough
The Odyssey / int_ee637bc2	comment	You Have Waited Long Enough: The suitors want to convince Penelope of this. She's not buying it. Correctly, as Odysseus isn't actually dead.
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The Odyssey / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
The Odyssey / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Odysseus's dog predates the trope namer, waiting faithfully for his master before dying shortly after his return. Any of the loyal people in Odysseus's household. His swineherd, cowherd, and Penelope are all pointed out as being exceptional in their devotion to him after many decades.
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The Odyssey / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Odyssey / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: The descriptions of grilling meat are mouth-watering.
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The Odyssey / int_f3894c02	type	Underside Ride
The Odyssey / int_f3894c02	comment	Underside Ride: Odysseus and his crew are trapped within a cave by Polyphemus, a man-eating shepherd cyclops. Odysseus and his crew escape by clinging to the underside of Polyphemus's sheep.
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The Odyssey / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
The Odyssey / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: When Nausicaa realizes that walking through town with a strange man might have unfortunate consequences for her reputation, she tells Odysseus to wait up a while out of sight of the city before following her to the city gate. When Odysseus explains this to the king, he claims that it was his idea. In Odysessus's defense, it's implied that he was covering for Nausicaa, as the king was upset that she didn't bring Odysseus with her to the palace, reputation be damned.
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The Odyssey / int_f4fe270	type	Villainous Glutton
The Odyssey / int_f4fe270	comment	Villainous Glutton: Charybdis, an unspeakably horrifying monster who devours everything that passes her.
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The Odyssey / int_f5420f5	type	Siren Song
The Odyssey / int_f5420f5	comment	Siren Song: The Trope Maker. In Book 12, the sirens try to lure Odysseus by promising to sing of his glorious deeds in the Trojan War. It's impossible to resist the song; he has to be lashed firmly to the mast to prevent him from giving in.
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The Odyssey / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Odyssey / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Possibly the Ur-Example. After 20 years of suffering, Odysseus makes it home, reclaims his throne, and reunites with his family. We are not mentioning the Telegony.
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The Odyssey / int_f77cadc2	type	Mass Transformation
The Odyssey / int_f77cadc2	comment	Mass Transformation: On landing at Circe's island several of Odysseus' crew are invited to a feast hosted by the sorceress, who transforms them into pigs afterwards. Odysseus himself only escapes this fate thanks to Hermes giving him a flower that counteracts the curse.
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The Odyssey / int_f8e1ddb6	type	Trickster Girlfriend
The Odyssey / int_f8e1ddb6	comment	Trickster Girlfriend: Penelope, of all characters. She is revealed to be pretty sharp herself (Odysseus must have married her for a reason), as she keeps the suitors under her thumb with various tricks...and then she plays a mind game with her husband, the King of Tricksters when he shows up in disguise, ordering a slave to drag Odysseus's bed from their chamber -causing Odysseus to demand who dared to cut the bed from the living olive tree he carved it from. It's something only the two of them knew, thus tricking him into proving his identity while she proved her fidelity to him in a single move.
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The Odyssey / int_f8fe0279	type	Impossibly Delicious Food
The Odyssey / int_f8fe0279	comment	Impossibly Delicious Food: We know, never refuse free food, but it's probably not a good idea to accept handouts from the Lotus-Eaters.
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The Odyssey / int_fba50b70	type	Perpetual Storm
The Odyssey / int_fba50b70	comment	Perpetual Storm: Odysseus's ship lands on the island of Thrinacia, where lives the cattle of the sun god, Helios. Zeus then causes a storm lasting for forty days, which prevents them from leaving the island. After depleting their food stocks, the ship's crew hunts down the cattle, angering the god. When the storm finally ends, they leave the island, only to have their ship crushed by another of Zeus's storms, which leaves Odysseus (the only one who did not partake of the cattle) as the sole survivor.
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The Odyssey / int_fbc18509	type	Oral Tradition
The Odyssey / int_fbc18509	comment	Oral Tradition: Until it was written down, at least.
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The Odyssey / int_fd68019a	type	Our Sirens Are Different
The Odyssey / int_fd68019a	comment	Our Sirens Are Different: Odysseus runs into an island home to the sirens, who are bird-women who lure sailors with their enchanting voices and music. His men stuff their ears with wax, but, true to form, Odysseus just has them tie him to the mast because he wants to hear the songs and be able to say that he's the only man to have heard the song and lived. It's also noteworthy that in the original, their song tempts him with knowledge and fame rather than with sex.
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The Odyssey / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Odyssey / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Man-eating giant Polyphemus gets a sympathetic moment talking to his favourite ram when letting the flock out to pasture. Odysseus is forced to avert this when he passes by his dog Argos because he must hide who he is. Amphinomus's charitable treatment of the disguised Odysseus is enough for Odysseus to try to spare his life. Athena, however, isn't having it.
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The Odyssey / int_ff892c21	type	Guilt by Association Gag
The Odyssey / int_ff892c21	comment	Guilt by Association Gag: Played with in the slaughter of the suitors. Several otherwise good people (Amphinomous especially) were slaughtered with the rest, but a closer examination shows they were just as guilty of breaking xenia as the rest of them and were there of their own free will. The two that were spared had valid excuses: the bard Phemius had been forced (more or less at swordpoint) to perform for the suitors and was not there of his own free will, and the herald Medon was Penelope's spy.
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The Odyssey	hasFeature	I Know Your True Name / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Ideal Hero / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Impossible Task / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Impossibly Delicious Food / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	In Medias Res / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Keep the Home Fires Burning / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Kid Amid the Chaos / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	King Incognito / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Kraken and Leviathan / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Laser-Guided Karma / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Laughing Mad / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	"Leave Your Quest" Test / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Legend / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Libation for the Dead / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Lost at Sea / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Lotus-Eater Machine / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Made a Slave / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Manly Tears / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Marriage of Convenience / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Mass Transformation / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Master Archer / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Mega Maelstrom / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Mook Horror Show / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Muggle in Mage Custody / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	My Girl Back Home / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	My Name Is Inigo Montoya / int_4b187e74
NASA	seeAlso	The Odyssey
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Naked First Impression / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Narrative Poem / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Nay-Theist / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Necromancer / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	No "Arc" in "Archery" / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Noble Fugitive / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Not Good with Rejection / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Not Just a Tournament / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Now It's My Turn / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Ocean of Adventure / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Ocean Punk / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Oh, Crap! / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Old Beggar Test / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	One-Hit Polykill / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Only the Chosen May Wield / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Our Sirens Are Different / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Perpetual Storm / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Pet Positive Identification / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Prefers Raw Meat / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Pride / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Proper Lady / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Public Domain Character / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Quest to the West / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Questionable Consent / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Railroading / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Raising the Steaks / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Random Events Plot / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Random Species Offspring / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Rejected Marriage Proposal / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Road Trip Plot / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Roaring Rampage of Revenge / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Sacred Hospitality / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Sadly Mythcharacterized / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Scars are Forever / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Schmuck Banquet / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Scylla and Charybdis / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Secret Test / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Semi-Divine / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Sex Slave / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Siren Song / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Sirens Are Mermaids / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Slipping into Stink / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Small Role, Big Impact / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Solitary Sorceress / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Somebody Named "Nobody" / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Stealth Pun / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Stranger Safety / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Suicide by Sea / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Summoning Ritual / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Surrounded by Idiots / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Sword and Sandal / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Taking Advantage of Generosity / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Tell Me About My Father / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Textile Work Is Feminine / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	The Bard / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	The Drunken Sailor / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	The Epic / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	The High Queen / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	The Homeward Journey / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	The Jinx / int_4b187e74
TheMoonsOfSaturn	seeAlso	The Odyssey
The Odyssey	hasFeature	The Quest / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	The Thing That Would Not Leave / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	There's No Place Like Home / int_4b187e74
ThomasFaySyndicate	seeAlso	The Odyssey
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	To Hell and Back / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Tragic Intangibility / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Trauma Conga Line / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Trickster Girlfriend / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Twice-Told Tale / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Underside Ride / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Undignified Death / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Undying Loyalty / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Villains Want Mercy / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Wait for Your Date / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Warrior Prince / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	What Did You Expect When You Named It ____? / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Widow Mistreatment / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Year Outside, Hour Inside / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	You Have Waited Long Enough / int_4b187e74
Fate Stay Double (Roleplay)	seeAlso	The Odyssey
Alien Legacy / Videogame	seeAlso	The Odyssey
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Earn Your Happy Ending / int_4b187e74
The Odyssey	hasFeature	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome / int_4b187e74

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