Muse please HELP ME!!

You should be wondering who Muse is. I read in a book that it is a Greek god which inspire people. And right now I need inspiration to write something.

Perhaps My Muse went to help someone. He is ignoring me.

Anyway, I could still remember last year when Mdm Chng taught us about the Ancient Civilisation and I did some sort of research on my own.

Duing the research, I found a website about the greek mythology. One of them was about the Odyssey.

You know what? The whole thing was damn complicated.

Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled farand wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit,and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.

This is an extracted from The Odyssey, it is the first paragraph of Book one. And there are 24 books altogether.

Already, I don't understand the whole thing. What does sacked the famous city means? Does he fired them? Or does he kill everyone in there? And is the daughter of Jove? Who is Jove?

The whole thing was translated by this person called Samuel Butler. I don't think I would even understand the whole thing if it was not translated.

Well, my favourite story in the Greek Mythology was about the Pandora thing.

So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.

That is the second paragraph of The Odyssey. It has no connection with the first one. So who is Ulysses? Who is Calyspo? Why she wanted to marry Ulysses? Where is Ithaca?

I just don't understand the whole paragraphs because IT IS SO WEIRD!

from:http://www.greekmythology.com/Books/Odyssey/odyssey.html