the Odyssey

• Alcinous implies the world is changing, and the distinction between gods and mortals seems to be eroding
• everyone else, he says, should gather to feast and celebrate
• Laodamas invites Odysseus to join the competition, but Odysseus declines, citing his long suffering and exhaustion
• Just as Telemachus's tears reveal his identity to Menelaus, Odysseus's tears give him away to Alcinous.
• the Cyclops only lets the men pass because he takes them for rams. 
• The Laestrygonians ate most of Odysseus's crew, but one ship escaped.