Circe
- Circe warns: “The Sirens are in your path
- The Sirens will sing your mind away
- There are bones around them on the rocks
- Plug your men’s ears with beeswax, but
- If you want to hear the Sirens’ singing, have your men tie you to the mast”
- Circe also warns about Scylla – 12 legs, 6 heads, 3 rows of teeth in each head – a serpent-like monster
- She’ll take one man for each mouth
- Charybdis is next, a giant whirlpool
- Circe says: go closer to Scylla – less risk
- Circe also warns of Helio’s cattle: don’t kill and eat them (the cattle are immortal) and it’ll upset Helios
- Circe says: your men will probably kill the cattle
- O doesn’t tell men about what Circe said
Sirens
- Sirens are ½ bird, ½ woman
- O stuffed his men’s ears with beeswax
- The men tied O to the mast
- When O hears the sirens, he asks to be released but his men do not release him
Scylla and Charybdis
- Scylla stole 6 of O’s men; Charybdis tried to eat the ship, but the ship wasn’t close enough
Land of the Sun God
- O wants to pass by this island, but men want to stop
- O says: “don’t eat the cattle”
- It stormed for a month; they ran out of food
- O leaves men alone to pray to gods
- Eurylochus urges men: “let’s kill cattle”
- “starvation is the worst way to die”
- So, the men kill the cattle
- O returns and is upset at his men
- Helios prayed to Zeus for help: “they killed my cattle”
- Zeus punishes O’s men with a thunderbolt striking the ship
- Only O survives
- He washes up on Calpyso’s shore
Calypso
- O spent 7 years as Calypso’s prisoner
- Athena begs Zeus to let O go home
- Calypso is bad b/c she keeps O from his home
- Hermes arrives and likes Calypso’s house
- Hermes tells Zeus’s decree: “release him”
- Calypso tells O: “I thought it over. I’ll let you go.”
- Calypso wants to know why O still wants his wife when she’s not as pretty as Calypso is
- Calypso also offers O immortality if he stays
- O still says he wants to go home
- Calypso helps O build a raft
- Poseidon is still angry; crashes O’s raft
Phaecia, King Alcinous
- O washes up on the Phaecian shore
- O is found by King Alcinous’s daughter
- O is taken to King’s palace; treated very well
- He tells the whole story to the kingdom
- King Alcinous gives O a ship to go home
Please make your comment something meaningful or add something you noted in Book 12 as you read. First or last names only.
22 comments:
I am the first!! Yeah! go me!! oh yeah... i read the notes!
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i read the notes. they made the book more clear. i was really confused while i was reading it but now it's clear as crystal!
your notes really help!
odysseus really needs to learn some leadership abilities.
-sadie
im getting how the book and "o brother where art thou" are alike!
~hannah
THE NOTES ARE READ AND IT HELPS ME TO UNDERSTAND THE BOOK A LOT MORE.
uhm...i read the notes. the book is really just abunch of words to me, so the notes really help a buncho!
the book is hard to understand. it's just a bunch of words. the way they word things make it difficult to understand and it frustrates me. reading your notes help tons though.
the book is hard to understand. it's just a bunch of words. the way they word things make it difficult to understand and it frustrates me. reading your notes help tons though.
i guess we were suppose to read these.
your notes help a lot mrs feller! thanks for putting the time into helping us understand all of this.
Yeah these notes help alot in my pursuit of knowlege
tiiiiight. i just love these notes!
great. these notes are really helpful!
Hello this section is crazy!
ok i got the notes.
I read it. You wouldn't think Odysseus would deny immortality. Eh, whatever.
read dem notes; I've also notice the similarities betwwen "O, brother, where art thou" and this book. a lotta lost people
i like when you post the notes on the website. it makes the book SO much more clear. but why is Odysseus the only one that has to be tied to the mast?
They Help
Its Josh. Easy notes.
these notes help a lot
alexa
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