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...humb|300px|Charybdis as portrayed in ''The Odyssey (1997)'' TV miniseries; Odysseus's ship can be seen falling into its maw.]] ...th dangers because they were guided by [[Thetis]], one of the [[Nereids]]. Odysseus was not so fortunate; he chose to risk Scylla at the cost of some of his cr

''Odysseus and the Sirens. An 1891 painting by John William Waterhouse.'' ...rs to untie him but they ignored him. When they had passed out of earshot, Odysseus stopped thrashing about and calmed down, and was released (Odyssey XII, 39)

* According to Homer (XIX, 180), the pseudonym Odysseus assumed during his interview with Penelope upon his return to Ithaca.

...them; in one of the most famous passages of Homer's ''Odyssey'', the hero Odysseus encounters the Cyclops [[Polyphemus]], the son of [[Poseidon]] and [[Thoosa ...s and traps them in his cave. He proceeds to eat several crew members, but Odysseus devised a cunning plan for escape.

...ylla, thus loosing the entire crew to Charybdis. It was a cruel choice for Odysseus but it got worse. ...elp but he stood helpless on the deck with the rest of the terrified crew. Odysseus said it was the most pitiful scene his long-suffering eyes had ever seen.

[[Image:Ulysses-Draper.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''Odysseus and the Sirens''. A painting by Herbert James Draper]] ...rs to untie him but they ignored him. When they had passed out of earshot, Odysseus stopped thrashing about and calmed down, and was released (''[[Odyssey]]''

...ntrolling the wind by tying it goes back to the legends of ancient Greece; Odysseus received a bag of wind from Aeolus to help him on his journey.

When Odysseus and Ajax walk together along the shore of the sounding sea (''Iliad'' vi) t

...he realm of the dead. In particular, the Greek war hero [[Achilles]], whom Odysseus met in Hades (although some believe that Achilles dwells in the [[Isles of :"Do not speak soothingly to me of death, glorious Odysseus. I should choose to serve as the hireling of another, rather than to be lo

*Last but no least, Alastor was friend of Serpedon, who was killed by Odysseus.

In the Odyssey (XI, Nekyia), Odysseus makes a voyage to [[Hades]], the [[Underworld]], and raises the spirits of ...particular for discussion of necromancy in the encounter between Circe and Odysseus.

#Laertes, son of Arcesius, Odysseus' father '''O'''

...hese, which emerged from the swarm of lesser ills, were Old Age and Death. Odysseus says, "Death and the Ker avoiding, we escape" (''Odyssey'' xii.158), where

...ent claims that Satan's role as the hero, mimics Achilles's injured merit, Odysseus's wiles and craft, and Aeneas's journey to find a new homeland.

...ures the ''cyclopes'' (κύκλωπες) —well remembered for their encounter with Odysseus in Homer's ''Odyssey''—giants (though not gigantes) with only one eye. Th

...actually dies in his place. His blindness is iconotropy from a picture of Odysseus blinding the Cyclops, mixed with a purely Hellenic solar legend: the Sun-he

...nderworld]] are lured to the blood of freshly sacrificed rams, a fact that Odysseus uses to his advantage to summon the shade of Tiresias. Roman tales describe

In ''Odyssey'', [[Odysseus]] travels to Hades and sees the shades of his former colleagues, including

...8: Fraudulent advisors are encased in individual flames. Dante includes [[Odysseus|Ulysses]] and [[Diomedes]] together here for their role in the Trojan War.