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Once he drank the blood of the slaughtered animals, he told Odysseus that his journey home would be full of trouble: Odysseus had angered Poseidon by blinding Poseidon's son, the Cyclops Polyphemus. The men will reach home, said Tiresias, if they leave the Cattle of the Sun unharmed.
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- Summary: Book 10
- Summary: Book 11
- Analysis: Books 10–11
The Achaeans sail from the land of the Cyclops to the home of Aeolus, ruler of the winds. Aeolus presents Odysseuswith a bag containing all of the winds, and he stirs up a westerly wind to guide Odysseus and his crew home. Within ten days, they are in sight of Ithaca, but Odysseus’s shipmates, who think that Aeolus has secretly given Odysseus a for...
Odysseus travels to the River of Ocean in the land of the Cimmerians. There he pours libations and performs sacrifices as Circe earlier instructs him to do to attract the souls of the dead. The first to appear is that of Elpenor, the crewman who broke his neck falling from Circe’s roof. He begs Odysseus to return to Circe’s island and give his body...
The mortal tendency to succumb to temptation manifests itself throughout Book 10. Just as Odysseus taunts the blinded Polyphemus in book 9 by boasting about his defeat of the Cyclops, the members of his crew prove unable to resist looking into Aeolus’s bag, and their greed ends up complicating their nostos, or homeward voyage. As important and illu...
Odysseus follows Circe's instructions, digging a trench at the site prescribed and pouring libations of milk, honey, mellow wine, and pure water. He ceremoniously sprinkles barley and then sacrifices a ram and a ewe, the dark blood flowing into the trench to attract the dead.
His ship will take him to the proper place, and, there, Odysseus must secure it and go, on foot, into the Underworld. He must cross the rivers that border it and run through Hades until he...
Nov 21, 2023 · Odysseus is stuck on the island of Ogygia, trapped by the Greek goddess Calypso. Some of the Olympian gods take pity on Odysseus and decide to help him escape. After leaving Ogygia, he ends...
- Book 11 is important because Odysseus gets several warnings. He is told to watch out for Poseidon who is angry with him. He also is warned not to d...
- Odysseus summons the spirits of the dead. He does this so that he can speak to the Theban prophet Teiresias.
- Odysseus feels many emotions in the land of the dead. Naturally, he is frightened by all the ghosts that appear. He also is sad when he meets his m...
She became enamoured of the river, divine Enipeus, who is far the fairest of rivers that send forth their streams upon the earth, and she was wont to resort to the fair waters of Enipeus. But the Enfolder and Shaker of the earth took his form, and lay with her at the mouths of the eddying river.
Book 11. Odysseus and his men reach the entrance to the Land of the Dead. Following Circe’s instructions, Odysseus sacrifices an animal in order to summon the spirits of the dead.
