Athena goes back to Zeus and yells at him for not sending Odysseus home yet. So Zeus sends Hermes to tell the nymph Calypso to tell her to let Odysseus go back to Ithaca. However, Odysseus must sail on a raft. This dangerous task becomes even less safe when Poseidon learns that Odysseus is traveling home. Poseidon creates horrible weather and ultimately throws Odysseus off of the raft, but with the helpof Athena, Odysseus makes it safely back to shore.
Curse the gods! Am I never to return home to Ithaca? When I finally am allowed to return to my homeland by Calypso, it is on a raft. A raft I ask you. Have I not suffered enough? Twenty years is a long time to be away from home. And yet it has been decided that my journey has yet to come to an end. I have decided that I can no longer trust the gods. When I was floating helplessly in the water and the goddess told me to swim to shore, I could not help thinking “Not another treacherous god/scheming against me, ordering me to abandon my raft./ I will not obey”(Book V line 158-160). The gods are the beings that put me in this situation in the first place. I will take my own advice from now one, with the exception of Athena because her advice has never lead me to harm.
