Mrs. Rager
7th Literature
2 October 2014 The Revenge of Odysseus
Sing to me o calliope and through me tell the story of a man who fought a god. Boom! The sound of Poseidon’s trident shooting lightning at Odysseus’s shield almost deafened both of them. It all started when Odysseus sought revenge on Poseidon for his extensive unruly home and for the loss of his men and mother. In Odysseus’s fueling rage, he marched out to sea avenge his men and mother, and reek as much havoc upon Poseidon on as possible.
He was on this voyage for an extended time when he came to the realization that he was heading directly toward Scylla and Charybdis. He started to panic like a person who had just realized they have been cast into the underworld for eternity. Struggling to recapture his humanity he started to consider ways to get out of his predicament. Odysseus set his sails on low and turned his ship ninety degrees north. He was heading directly toward Charybdis.
Charybdis grabbed the ship like an octopus with 20 tentacles on steroids which made it look like giant, death loving, blood thirsty monster. Odysseus jumped directly into the very center of the whirl pool, and is swiftly sucked into the menacing monster’s stomach. Realizing his imminent death, Odysseus quickly pleads to the great and powerful Zeus and beseeches him to shoot a bolt of lightning so electrifying that it would gash a hole in Charybdis’ stomach. Answering the desperate Odysseus, Zeus shoots a bolt of lightning so electrifying that it could have ripped through all of the earth’s dense layers.
Thinking on his feet, Odysseus finds one of the previously wrecked ships in the belly of Charybdis. Then he sails his makeshift boat directly through the massive hole that was created by Zeus. In Odysseus’s maddening fury he cursed Poseidon, the god of sea. Poseidon does not take kindly to the malicious curse that Odysseus uttered against him. Poseidon erupts out of the sea in