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- The first time Odysseus returned to Ithaca, and how Poseidon tempted him to leave before showing himself to Penelope by giving him a prophetic dream about where the Sirens lived and sang.
- What Odysseus swindled the spirits of the dead out of, how, and why.
- The story of the son Odysseus fathered with Circe, of his long life and many names.
- Athena telling Odysseus that she killed the priests he had bribed to let the horse in, so that his wit, and hence her attributes, might be cast in a better light.
- Odysseus winning the Golden Apple at a dice game near the ruins of Troy and losing it on purpose (and in a hurry) when he realized what it was.
- When Minos cast Odysseus into his fiendishly complex dungeons at Poseidon's command, and how Odysseus tricked Minos' queen so there would be somebody else to take his place.
- That time Telemachus was rescued at sea by a ghost ship crewed by the spirits of sailors his father had murdered in their sleep to prevent a mutiny.
- What Odysseus found in the tombs in the land of the one river, and why the only oath he ever kept was his promise to never say anything about it.
- How the Atlanteans, having a religious terror of liars, gave him a map and a fast ship on the condition that he would leave the island without uttering another word.
- It wasn't Polyphemus who ate those men.
- Odysseus' non-apology for deliberately taunting Patroclus hoping for more or less what happened next.
- Penelope's long and expert lesson on discrete poisons to her increasingly uncomfortable husband.
- The year Odysseus spent singing made-up stories while pretending to be blind.