What are the challenges that Odysseus had to face on his journey home?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

Odysseus faces a number of challenges on his way home, including:

• sailors captivated by the lotus-eaters
• a battle with Polyphemus,
  a cyclops
• a storm sent by Poseidon
• an encounter with a
  witch
• being captivated by the Sirens
• encounters with
  the monsters Scylla and Charybdis
• punishment by Zeus 

On the way home from war, Odysseus's soldiers are captivated by the
lotus-eaters, who try to feed the men fruit that will cause them to forget their desire to go
home.

Next, Odysseus and his men get trapped in the lair of Polyphemus, who
eats some of the men. Odysseus blinds Polyphemus, and the cyclops calls out to his father
Poseidon, who sends a storm to punish Odysseus. Later, Odysseus refers to the encounter
with...

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