His men insist on landing because they are so exhausted. First the greeks must get past the sirens whose irresistible songs lure sailors into their island s coastal reefs.
As soon as they were out at sea zeus sent down a storm that destroyed the ship and killed everyone aboard except odysseus who hung on to some pieces of wood.
Cattle of the sun god odyssey summary. Odysseus woke up to find that the men had broken their oaths and killed some cattle the roles of odysseus and eurylochus are reversed. They bellowed and moved. The sun god helios angrily asked zeus and the other gods to punish odysseus s crew for killing his cattle and zeus complied.
Circe is helpful once more providing supplies and warnings about the journey to begin the next dawn. Cattle of sun god. Book 12 the cattle of the sun.
He complies but odysseus makes them promise to not make any contact with the livestock. Odysseus urges his exhausted crew to pass the island of the sun god thrinakia. Strange things began to happen to the cattle that had been killed.
True to his word odysseus returns to aeaea for elpenor s funeral rites. It s better to die at sea from the wrath of the gods he said than to die of hunger. The cattle of the sun god was a story from the odyssey where odysseus s men get in trouble because the eat the cattle that happen to be sacred to helios the ancient greek god of the sun.
But the men continue to feast for six more days before sailing away. One day odysseus fell asleep and eurylochus convinced the men to eat the cattle of the sun.
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