Odyssey Book 10 Flashcards
Who was Aeolus and what job has Zeus given to him?
- king of the winds
What was unusual about this island?
- floats
- has bronze walls (usually made of stone)
What is unusual about his family?
- married to each other
- no need to work, feasting all day
How did Aeolus help Odysseus?
- hosted him for a month
- gave him bag of winds filled with the bad ones so that only the good ones remained to let him sail home
Why did Odysseus’ men disobey his command and what did they do?
- opened the bag of winds while Odysseus was asleep
- curious about what Aeolus gave to him
- thinks he is hiding gold and silver for himself (unfounded- shared sheep and loot)
Why did Odysseus fall asleep?
- wanted to get home quicker
- stayed up and handled sheets instead of letting crew
How does Aelous react when they return and why?
- rejects helping them
- wasted first gift = gods hating him
- doesn’t want to anger Zeus/ more important gods
What were two strengths and weaknesses of Odysseus’ leadership with dealing with Aeolus?
- was a good guest
- stuck with his men
- didn’t tell crew what was in the bag (lack of trust)
- impatient, wanted to reach home faster but extends journey instead
Where did Odysseus and his crew moor their ships?
- Odysseus = outside of harbour near cliffs
- others = inside u shaped harbour
Who did the 3 men meet once they went onto the Laestrygonians’ island?
- Antiphates’ daughter
- giant
- pointed to father’s house, doesn’t say anything
What happened once the men reach Antiphates’ house?
- finds his wife
- wife call Antiphates
- eats one of the men
- calls the rest of the Laestrygonians
- kills rest of men + ships at harbour
- Odysseus’ ship is only survivor
What was the name of Circe’s island?
Aeaea
Who is Circe’s father?
Helios
What does Odysseus do for his men on Circe’s island?
Circe
- hunted a stag
- thirsty, went to stream
- kills it with spear, ties its legs onto spear and carry on back to ship for crew to eat
Why does Odysseus want to visit the mysterious house?
- need directions
- recieve xenia + directions
Why are the men so distraught at the idea of going to the mysterious house?
- thinks about what happened with the Laestrygonians
Why does Odysseus only send half of his crew to investigate?
who was the leader?
- prevents entire crew from being wiped out
- Eurylochus
What is outside of Circe’s house?
- wolves and mountain lions
- possible previous humans
- enchanted to stand on hind legs, wag tails
drugged humans?
What was Circe doing inside of the house?
- singing and weaving
What happened to the men once they were led inside by Circe?
- fed them
- food and wine mixed with drugs
- tapped them with wand, turned into pigs
- kept in pigsty
Why did Eurylochus stay behind and what did he do?
- suspicious of Circe
- went back to Odysseus and crew once he saw what happened
What did Eurylochus want Odysseus to do?
- leave before they lose more men
What does Odysseus decide to do once Eurylochus tells him what happened?
- save the men
Who helped Odysseus and what instructions did he give?
- Hermes
1. take moly as antidote
2. intimidate her by running at her with sword
3. agree to sleep with her
4. make her swear an oath to not hurt him before they do the deed
How does Circe show good xenia to Odysseus?
- agreed to free his men and turn them back
- bathed him, fed him and crew
- gave him and men new clothes
- doesn’t keep him there against his will, unlimited stay
- gave him directions (go to underworld and see Teiresias)
- gave him sacrifice to make to Teiresias (ram + black ewe)
Who was Teiresias?
- prophet in underworld
- blind
- can see into future
What happens to Elpenor?
- gets drunk
- falls asleep on roof
- wakes up with hangover, falls off roof
- nobody notices
