Gods -- Odysseus : his looks and transformations -- Odysseus : his nature -- Heroes -- Odysseus at Troy -- Ajax the silent -- Brief Achilles and enduring Odysseus -- Hephaestus' world : the shield -- Patroclus the friend -- Achilles the unwitting liar -- Hector the holder -- The plan of Zeus -- Achilles as Hades and Achilles in Hades -- Beginnings and endings -- The returns -- The poet of the Odyssey -- Naïveté and insight -- Beauty and craft -- Visibility and visuality -- Simile : the double vision -- Name tags and speaking names -- Telemachus and his telemachy -- Nestor at home -- Helen at Troy and Helen at home -- The stations and sightings of Odysseus' odyssey -- Asleep on the watch -- The poet of the Odyssey -- The fame of men and women -- Odysseus' odyssey I : first through sixth adventure -- Odysseus in Hades : seventh adventure -- The wooers in Hades -- The treasure house of the Greeks -- Odysseus' odyssey II : eighth through tenth adventure -- Calypso who conceals : eleventh adventure -- Phaeacia the artists' colony : twelfth adventure -- The locales and settings of Homer's Odyssey -- The liar's goddess -- The Cretan liar -- Lying tales versus fairy tales -- Telemachus returns -- Odysseus and Telemachus : convergence -- Penelope the kingly queen -- Suitors and servants -- Crisis -- At first sight -- Testing -- Time chasms -- Twice told, thrice dead.