book 12
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- Created on: 01-06-13 12:12
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- book 12
- elpenor is drunk and on the roof he forgets to use the ladder falls and dies
- indulging himself with wine is to appealing to his mental strength
- not heroic
- provides a way to the underworld
- they must go to the underworld and consult tenesias
- they come back and hold a funeral for elpenor
- Circe invites the men to stay for a day eating and drinking
- Circe tells Odysseus of how to get home safely
- sirens will try and bewitch them with their voice
- they must put ear wax in their ears
- if he wants to hear the song then he must get his men to tie him to the mast
- they must put ear wax in their ears
- then he will have a choice of two routes
- past the wandering rocks
- sink his boat
- only the argon has ever got past
- past two dangerous rocks
- home a Scylla
- bark like a god, 12 feet, 6 long necks with 6 heads,and each head has 8 rows of fangs
- she will eat six men
- charybdis
- is a large whirlpool
- everyone will die
- home a Scylla
- past the wandering rocks
- they will then reach thrinacie
- he must not eat the sun gods cattle
- sirens will try and bewitch them with their voice
- Odysseus tells his men every detail about the sirens so no one is killed
- he doesn't tell his men what's going to happen with Scylla, if he does they will worry, slow down and risk more than six men being killed
- they reach the island of the sun god where Hyperion keeps his cattle and sheep
- Odysseus tells his men that they will continue sailing
- eurylochus voices the men opinion saying that they are tired and hungry and at risk at being hit by winds from the south and west
- Odysseus gives in but makes his men promise not to eat and cattle
- Zeus caused winds from the south and the west so they cant leave the island
- they started to run out of good and drink
- Odysseus goes to pray to the immortal god that they will make the winds die down
- Odysseus is sent into a deep sleep
- erylochus starts scheming
- better to die at sea than a slow painful death
- when they return home they will make a temple in honour of Hyperion
- they butcher the cattle and help a cermony
- Called Thrinacie
- Hyperion is extremely angry and threatens to go shine in the underworld
- on the seventh day the winds die down so they set sail
- hit by winds from the west zeus also hits the ship with a thunder and lightening
- ships sinks all men die
- Odysseus is swept back on two timbers to the dreaded charybdis
- he grabs onto a branch off a fig tree and avoids the whirlpool
- he then grabs onto a piece of timber and paddles
- luckily not scene by Scylla
- after ten days he comes to the island of ogygia home of Calpso
- he grabs onto a branch off a fig tree and avoids the whirlpool
- elpenor is drunk and on the roof he forgets to use the ladder falls and dies
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