The Odyssey, Book One

To read Book One of the Odyessey, click here.
I was so happy because I could follow it. Being a Percy Jackson fan, in the winter/spring months of 2010 I stole my mother's Mythology book and became an avid reader of Greek and Roman myths. I read about Agamemnon and Orestes and how that guy Aegithus convinced Clymnestra to cheat on her husband-it was really weird and inconsistent between sources because of the back stories. I read of Hector and Achillies and how wimpy Aphrodite- or in this case, Venus- was in the Trojan War. So wimpy, in fact, that she went crying to Zeus when she got hurt trying to protect her son (a demigod). But that's not reallly relevant to The Odyssey, so I think I'll start talking about something a little more on topic. So anyways, things weren't looking so great for Ulysses's wife, Penelope, for Calypso was holding Ulysses captive on her island and wanted to marry him, Neptune didn't want Ulysses to get home, and Penelope couldn't decide wether she wanted to remarry or not.
 Minerva, who's supposed to be smart, didn't really make much sense when she decided to come down and talk to Telemachus in disguise, because he figured out who she was pretty fast. Or maybe he was just a really smart guy- which would't make much sense either, because he couldn't think about the option of kicking out his mother's suitors.
At least I could follow it. Kind of.

-Jenni