Book 10 Flashcards
Where does Odysseus get to at the start of book 10?
Aeolus’ floating island. God of the wind
What is the Aeolus’ island surrounded by? (2)
- Bronze walls
2. Sheer Cliffs
Who does Aeolus live with? (2)
- 6 Sons
2. 6 Daughters
What is odd about Aeolus’ family?
They are all married to each other.
What do the family do all day?
Feast
What does Aeolus do when Odysseus enters?
Hospitably entertains him
How long is Odysseus entertained for?
A whole month
What does Aeolus ask Odysseus whilst being entertained?
His tales
What does Odysseus ask for after at the end of this month?
Asks to leave
What does Aeolus offer Odysseus when he asks to leave? (2)
- Storm-winds in an ox-skin
2. A favourable wind from the west
What happens when Odysseus leaves Aeolus island?
He sets sail
How long is Odysseus sailing for from Aeolus’ island?
9 days
What’s special about these 9 days of sailing?
Odysseus does it all by himself
What happens on the 10th day?
Odysseus falls asleep, due to being exhausted
How are Odysseus crew feeling after he falls asleep? (2)
- Curious
2. Jealous
Why are the crew feeling this?
Odysseus hasn’t told them what’s in the bag
What do the crew think is in the bag?
Riches (gold, silver)
What do the crew do in response to their curiosity and jealousy?
They open the bag
What happens as they open the bag?
They release the stormy winds
What does Odysseus do as the winds are released?
He deliberates whether to drown himself or endure.
Where do they come to after the winds have been released?
Aeolus’ island
How does Aeolus feel on Odysseus’ return?
Incredulous at Odysseus’ bad luck.
What does Aeolus do after seeing his bad luck?
He refuses to help him on the grounds
What happens after Odysseus and his men leave Aeolus’ island for the second time?
They sail for 6 days
Where does Odysseus get to after 6 days?
Telepylos
Who lives at Telepylos?
The Laestrygonians
What is Telepylos?
A stronghold
What happens after they reach the island? (2)
- The crew moor in a well protected harbour
2. Odysseus moors outside
What does Odysseus do once they moor?
Odysseus sends a party to explore.
Who does the party meet?
A strong girl
What does the strong girl do once she meets the party?
She guides them to her father’s palace.
Who happens after they reach the palace?
Her father come home
Where does her father come from?
An assembly
What does the father do once he sees the party?
He cannibalises one man
What do the other members of the party do in response the man being eaten?
They run back to the ships in the harbour.
What does Antiphates (the King/Father) do as the men start running?
He raises a mighty cry
What do the Laestrygonians do in response to the cry? (2)
- They hurled boulders at the ship
2. Speared the men
What are the speared men described as?
Fish and the Laestrygonians make a meal of them
What happens to the crew after the attack?
The men on all the ships apart from Odysseus’ die
Who are the only ones left after the Laestrygonians attack?
Odysseus with his own ship and crew for that ship.
Why didn’t any of the other men escape?
They were stuck in the protected harbour
Why were they stuck in the harbour?
The wind was going against them
What happened to the men stuck in the harbour?
They are left to die
Where do the men sail to after the Laestrygonians?
Aenea
Who lives on Aenea?
Circe
What do the men do once on Aenea?
They rest exhausted and grieving for 2 days
What happened on the third day on Aenea?
Odysseus sets out for a vantage point
What does Odysseus see when searching for a vantage point?
Smoke rising from a clearing among the woods
What does Odysseus deliberate after seeing the smoke?
Whether to press on, looking around
What does Odysseus do after deliberating?
He returns back to the ship
After returning to the ship what does Odysseus do?
He sends out an exploring party
After sending out a party what does Odysseus do?
He goes out to find food
What does Odysseus find?
A stag
How does Odysseus get the stag back to camp? (2)
- He kills it
2. He makes a rope and pulls it back to the camp
What does Odysseus to for his men once he gets the stag back?
He encourages their grieving individually
After the encouragement what do the men do all day?
Feast
What happens on the next day (after feasting)?
He divides his men up into two parties.
Who is put in charge of the second party?
Eurylochus
How are the parties sorted?
By Eurylochus and Odysseus drawing lots.
What happens after the parties have been decided?
Eurylochus’ party sets out and reaches the palace of Circe.
What come to them as they get closer to the palace?
Tame wolves and lions
What is Circe doing as the animals fawn on Eurylochus and his men?
Singing and weaving inside
What did Polites, an authoritative man in the party, suggest?
He suggested they call Circe out
What does Circe do in response to Polites suggestion?
She calls the men inside
What do the crew do after being called in to the palace?
They all innocently follow, except Eurylochus
Why doesn’t Eurylochus go into the palace?
He suspects a trap
What does Circe give the men who entered the palace?
He offers them food and drink
What does Circe give the men after food and drink?
Drugs
What are the effects of the drugs?
They forget their homeland
What does Circe do to the men after giving them the drug? (3)
- She drives them out with her wand
- Turns them into pigs with human brains
- Pens them in pigsties
What does Eurylochus do after seeing the men turn into pigs?
He reports back to the ship in anguish
What does Odysseus do in response to Eurylochus’ report?
He arms himself and resolves to go to the men’s rescue
What does Eurylochus do when he hears Odysseus is going to get the men back?
He supplicates him
Why does Eurylochus supplicate Odysseus?
He doesn’t want to go and help
What does Odysseus do due to the supplication?
Concedes
What does Odysseus do after conceding?
He sets off alone
Who does Odysseus meet after setting off alone?
He meets Hermes in disguise
What does Hermes instruct Odysseus?
How to deal with Circe
What does Hermes give Odysseus?
The antidote, Moly
Where does Odysseus reach after receiving the moly?
Circe’s palace
What does Odysseus feel about the palace?
He thinks it is full of misgivings
What does Circe offer Odysseus as he enters the palace? (2)
- A silver studded chair
2. Drugged food and drink
What does she do after offering him the food?
She is about to strike him with her wand
What does Odysseus do in response to the wand?
He draws his sword as if about to kill her
As Odysseus in prepared to kill Circe what does she do? (3)
- She shrinks in fear
- Claps his knees
- Demands to know who he is
What does she guess after demanding his name? (3)
- She guesses he is Odysseus
- Immune to her drugs
- Forewarned by Hermes
What does she do after guessing his name?
Invites him to bed
What does Odysseus demand before going to bed?
He demands an oath from her
What does the oath state?
That she will not harm him further
What does Circe do after hearing the oath?
She duly complies
What do they do after Circe complies with the oath?
They sleep together
What does Circe do after they sleep together?
She extends her full hospitality to Odysseus
What does Odysseus feel in response to the hospitality? Why? (2)
- He cannot enjoy it
2. Till his men are freed
What does Circe do after hearing Odysseus’ feelings? (‘full hospitality’)
She turns his men back
What else changes about the men once they are changed back?
They look younger and handsomer than before
What do the men do after being turned back?
They weep from joy
What does Circe instruct Odysseus after she turns his men back?
To beach the ship and return with all his men
How do the rest of the crew feel after Odysseus returns to the ship?
They feel overjoyed as Odysseus is alive
What are the crew likened to after seeing Odysseus is a live?
Calves receiving their mothers after pasture and weep as if they had seen their native Ithaca once more
What do Odysseus do after he returns to the beach?
He persuades the men to return to Circe’s
Who isn’t allowed to go back to Circe’s?
Eurlylochus
Why isn’t Eurylochus allowed back to Circe’s?
He objects and blames Odysseus for the Cyclops losses.
What does Odysseus do after he tells Eurylochus he can’t go to Circe’s?
He loses his temper with him and considers slaughtering him
Why doesn’t Odysseus kill Eurylochus?
His men restrain him
What does Eurylochus do after the fight?
He ends until following Odysseus in the fear of his rebuke.
What happens after they go back to Circe’s?
They are entertained for a whole year
Why don’t they stay at Circe’s longer?
His men beseech Odysseus to remember home.
What does Odysseus do after he remembers home?
He duplicates Circe to honor her promise
What is Circe’s response to this supplication?
She says she will not detain him unwillingly
What must Odysseus do first before leaving Circe?
He must make another journey to Hades
Why must Odysseus go to Hades?
That’s where Tiresias will give him directions home
What does Circe do after telling him to do to Circe?
She gives him detailed instructions about how to sacrifice and call on the dead.
After Circe tells them about the sacrifice what happens?
Elpenor the youngest of the party neither too rave nor too clever slips from the roof where he had slept after having too much to drink and breaks his neck.
After Elpenor’s death what happens?
Odysseus breaks the news about the forthcoming trip to Hades to his crew
What is the men’s response to hearing they have to travel Hades?
They weep in despair
What does Circe do as the men are weeping?
She overtakes them undetected, she boards a ram and black ewe into the ship for sacrifices
