The real literary question is whether or not Odysseus actually went to any of these places or did any of these things.
The ‘travels’ portion of the Odyssey is only four books out of twenty-four. Odysseus, a known liar, is telling this story to the gullible Phaiakians, who aren’t really the brightest bulbs in Greece. None is this journey stuff is narrated in third person.
Odysseus is like “Well I’m about to get home; I’ve got to get my story straight about how I left Ithaca with all its best men and ten warships, and yet they’re all dead, and I, their commander, am the only one left alive.”
There is a major movie that is scheduled to be released this summer or next. I am curious as two of my Malinois are named Charybdis, and Scylla. I couldn’t bring myself to name the third Polyphemus so I named her Cerberus. I am looking forward to the movie. I read the book in HS and an English Lit class in college.
Gwjack