summary of journeys
نص القصة المصورة
- The Lotus Eaters
- Eat the lotus, forget about home
- Cyclops
- nobody blinded me
- The Land of the Dead
- i have an offering, but you must let us pass
- After drifting for almost ten days, Odysseus and his crew arrive in the coastline of the Lotus-eaters. Here he encounters the Lotus-eaters who live upon that flower. The people who eat the flower become careless about their own life and only think about eating the Lotus flower. The text explains that three of his men fell victim to the flower and had to drag them back into the ship by force. After this, they continued onto their sailing.
- The Sirens
- be careful with the sirens#160;
- Odysseus and his men stumble upon the cavern of a cyclops, and eventually get trapped in there by the cyclops. It hinders his journey because he cannot move the boulder at the entrance of the cave placed by the cyclops without its help. Six men were killed and ate by the cyclops. Odysseus moves on by getting the cyclops drunk and tricking it, stabbing it in the eye and the next morning escaping on the underside of the cyclops' sheep. "nobody blinded me"
- Scylla and Charybdis
- my 6 sailors!!
- Odysseus and his men arrive to the#160;underworld in order to consult the blind#160;prophet Tiresias. To pass through,#160;Odysseus gave an offering to the gods.#160;As it finished, they encountered the soul#160;of one of their dead shipmates, Elpenor.#160;He asks for a proper burial and#160;Odysseus accepts it. After this,#160;Odysseus's mother's soul appears, and#160;he grieves over her. Tiresias finally#160;appears and prophesizes over#160;Odysseus's life, which informs him of#160;his upcoming journeys, troubles, things#160;to avoid, what to do to move forward,#160;and his death.
- Cattle of the Sun God
- please god....
- Before Odysseus and his men continuetheir journey back home, Circe warns#160;him about the sirens. As Odysseus andhis men continue their journey, he tells#160;them about the sirens and instructs them#160;to bind him onto the mast of the ship so#160;he can listen to them without#160; dying. He#160;also tells them to block their ears with#160;beeswax so that they are protected.#160;When they finally pass the sirens, the crew keeps rowing#160; without hearing#160;anything, but Odysseus gets enchanted#160;by one of the siren's songs. The sirens#160;sing to him saying that they can tell him#160;all the secrets about the Trojan war if he#160;just comes closer. Odysseus begs his#160;men to let him go, but they don't let#160;him.Once they are way past the sirens,#160;his men set him free and continue their#160;journey.
- Once they have passed the Sirens' island, Odysseus and his men must navigate the straits between Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla is a six-headed monster who, when ships pass, swallows one sailor for each head. Charybdis is an enormous whirlpool that threatens to swallow the entire ship. As instructed by Circe, Odysseus holds his course tight against the cliffs of Scylla's lair. As he and his men stare at#160;Charybdis on the other side of the strait. The heads of Scylla swoop down and gobble up six of the sailors. Odysseus next comes to Thrinacia, the island of the Sun. He wants to avoid it entirely, but the outspoken Eurylochus#160;persuades him to let his beleaguered crew rest there. A storm keeps them beached for a month. and at first the crew is content to survive on its#160;provisions in the ship. When these run out, however, Eurylochus persuades the other crew members to disobey Odysseus and slaughter the cattle of the Sun. They do so one afternoon as Odysseus sleeps; when the Sun finds out, he asks Zeus to punish Odysseus and his men. Shortly after the Achaeans set sail from Thrinacia, Zeus kicks up another storm, which destroys the ship and sends the entire crew to its death beneath the waves. As had been#160;predicted, only Odysseus survives, and he just barely. The storm sweeps him all the way back to Charybdis, which he narrowly escapes for the second time. Afloat on the broken timbers of his ship, he eventually reaches Ogygia, Calypso's island. Odysseus here breaks#160;from his story, stating to the Phaeacians that he sees no reason to repeat to them his account of his experience on Ogygia
- In this adventure, Odysseus and his men are all out of food and are starting to starve on the island they’re on. While praying to the Gods, Odysseus end up falling asleep, and while he is sleeping, Eurylochus makes his men eat Lord Helios’ cattle. When he finds out, he is furious, and tells Zeus to punish them once they are at sea again. Zeus strikes a lightning bolt against the ship, hitting them directly. Everyone falls out into the ocean, and Odysseus must hold onto a fig tree to survive, and after nine days, he made it to shore.
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