Odysseus part 1B

what did aeolus give Odysseus when he left the island?

a sack containing all the winds except for the west wind.

while odysseus’ slept, his men..

opened the sack and drove them back to aeolus’ island

what happened to the men and their ship?

all killed except for odysseus’ ship with his men on the island of cannibals.

circe

a sorceress-goddess. lived on aeaea.

why does Odysseus go to the land of the dead?

To talk to the blind prophet tiresias for instructions of what will happen later on in his journey. he tells him to not eat the cattle on helio’s island, that he will have to go through the strait of scylla, pass through the sirens and learn information, win back his nation, and sacrifice to poseidon because of what he did to the cyclopes.

elpenor

a deceased sailor that was killed by circe. Odysseus finds him wandering the underworld because he was unburied. Odysseus promises to return to the island and bury him so he can be at peace.

how does Tiresias explain the problem?

explains zeus will punish him because of helios’s cattle

what is tiresias’ warning?

odysseus will loose all his men on his way home. he tells him how to navigate obstacles on his journey

sirens

½ woman, ½ bird. sing their songs to lure sailors into their waters and kill them.

odysseus protects his men from the sirens by..

covering their ears with beeswax

odysseus protects himself from sirens by..

having his men tie him to the mast of the boat, and cover his mouth if he screams. he hears the songs to get the info as advised by Circe.

scylla

6-headed sea monster

charybdis

underwater sea monster - creates a whirlpool to drag sailors in

what did the men do while Odysseus slept on helios’ island?

kill helios’s cattle. they were starving after being there for a month and had no food, and believed the gods would understand.

how did Helios react?

very angrily. goes to Zeus and threatens to leave to the underworld forever if he does not punish odysseus.

who intervenes for Helios?

Zeus intervenes by agreeing to strike his boat one time with a lightning bolt, and does so while they are at sea.

what happens to Odysseus and his men after killing the cattle?

their ship breaks apart and the men all drown. Odysseus drifts on wood for 9 days before reaching scylla and charybdis and hanging from a branch, before being guided by Zeus to an island inhabited by calypso,  a nymph.