Odyssey Timeline
Group Project
Directions:
Include the following events on your timeline:
- In groups of 2-3, create a timeline of events from the Odyssey on a piece of A3 paper.
- The events in your timeline must go in chronological order (not the order they happen in the book!)
- Your timeline should show approximately how long events lasted: for example, how long was Odysseus on Calypso's island?
- Don't forget: some events are taking place at the same time! You must find a way to represent this on your timeline.
- Draw a symbol/icon to represent each event on your timeline.
Include the following events on your timeline:
- Odysseus is trapped on Calypso's Island
- The Greeks conquer Troy
- Telemachus sails to find information about Odysseus
- Odysseus and crew travel to the underworld
- Telemachus is born
- Odysseus and crew encounter Scylla and Caraybdis
- Odysseus sails to Troy
- All but one of Odysseus' ships are sunk by the Laestrygonians
- Odysseus and crew land on Helios' Island, the crew eats cattle
- Odysseus and Telemachus are reunited
- Odysseus and Penelope are reunited
- Odysseus and crew stay with Circe
- Odysseus and crew escape the Lotus Eaters
- Odysseus and crew escape the Cyclops
- Odysseus stays with King Alcinous in the land of the Phaeacians
- Telemachus returns to Ithaca from his travels
- Odysseus fights in the Trojan War
- The Phaeacians bring Odysseus home to Ithaca
- The suitors arrive in Ithaca
- Odysseus and crew receive a bag of winds from King Aeolus
- Odysseus and crew avoid the sirens
- The last of Odysseus' crew is destroyed; he is now alone
- Odysseus' crew loot the city of the Cicones, and the Cicones attack them back
- Odysseus kills all the suitors