The Odyssey, day-by-day (from W.B. Stanford edition)
1. 1st day.
Assembly of gods; Athena visits Telemachus in Ithaca (Book 1)
2. 2nd day.
Assembly of Ithacans; Telemachus prepares for his journey (2,1-
398). He sails away that night (2, 399 to ed).
3. 3rd day.
He arrives at Pylos and hears Nestor's story (3, 1-403)
4. 4th day.
He leaves Pylos for Pherai (3, 404-90)
5. 5th day.
His journey to Sparta and reception at Menelaus' palace (3, 491-
4, 305)
6. 6th day.
He stays at Sparta and hears Menelaus' story (4, 306-624). In
Ithaca: discovery of Telemachus' departure. Conspiracy of
suitors
to ambush and kill him (4, 625-786). In the night Penelope
dreams; the conspirators set out (4, 787 to end)
7. 7th day.
Second assembly of gods. Hermes tells Calypso to send Odysseus
home (5, 1-227).
8. 8th to 11th days.
Odysseus builds an improvised boat (5, 228-62).
9. 12th to 28th days.
Odysseus voyages safely (5, 263-78).
10. 29th day.
Poseidon wrecks him with a storm. (5, 279-387).
11. 30th and 31st days.
Odysseus drifts on a spar and reaches Scherie (5, 398 to end).
12. 32nd day.
Athena sends Nausicaa to near where Odysseus sleeps. They meet.
Odysseus is received hospitably at Alcinous' palace (6 and 7).
13. 33rd day.
Entertainment by the Phaeacias with feast, song, dance,
athletics
(8). That evening Odysseus recounts his previous adventures
between Troy and Scherie: the Cicones, Lotus-Eaters, Cyclops,
Aeolus, Laestrygones, Circe, Land of Ghosts, Seirens, Scylla and
Charybdis, the Cattle of the Sun, the storm, Calypso's island
(8-
13, 18-92).
14. 34th day.
Odysseus voyages home from Phaeacia and arrives in Ithaca (13,
18-
92).
15. 35th day.
Odysseus lands and stays with the Swineherd (13, 93 to end of
14). Telemachus travels from Sparta and Pherai (15, 1-188). Note
the chronology is uncertain here; Butcher and Lang add an extra
day for Telemachus' journey.
16. 36th day.
Telemachus reaches Pylos and sails home (15, 189-300). Odysseus
stays with the Swineherd (15, 301-494).
17. 37th day.
Telemachus, having evaded the ambush, lands on Ithaca and joins
Odysseus and the Swineherd (15, 495 to end of 16).
18. 38th day.
Odyseus disguised as a beggar goes among the Suitors in his
palace. He fights a rival beggar, talks with Penelope, is
recognized by his old Nurse (17-19).
19. 39th day.
The contest with the bow. The killing of the Suitors (20-23,
240). That night Penelope at last accepts Odysseus as being
truly
her husbnd (23, 241-346).
20. 40th day.
The souls of the suitors go to Hades; Odysseus visits his
father;
Athena makes peace between Odysseus and the Suitors'kinsmen (2,
347 to end of poem).
-- Jim Terral South Slocan, BCaka Boris... http://www.netidea.com/~cyberhut/proposal.htm