Odyssey 9-12 Odysseus

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Odyssey 9-12 Odysseus tells the Phaeacians tales
of his travels
Cave of Polyphemus the Cyclops
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Book IXcovers

• Cicones in Thrace
• Lotus Eaters
• Cyclopes

Blinding of Polyphemus the Cyclops
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Lotus- Eaters
Odysseus men ate the lotus and no longer thought
of homeor anything else but eating more lotus.
Odysseus had to drag them to the ships.
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Land of the Cyclopes - lawless
The episode highlights Odysseus cleverness. He
gives Polyphemus a fake name, No-one
(??de??). But as his ships make their escape, he
shouts his real name to the Cyclops and
Polyphemus calls on his father, Poseidon, to
curse him.
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Book X

• Aeolus, Keeper of the Winds
• Laestrygonians
• Circe, the witch

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Aeolos, keeper of the winds
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Shore of Laestrygonians
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Circe
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Odysseus overcomes Circe with Hermes
help. He stays with her as her lover for one
year. Circe advises him to travel to the
underworld to talk with Tiresias for help getting
home.
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Book XI

• Visit to Hades to
• Speak with Tiresias

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Approach of the dead to the pool of blood.
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Ghosts drink from the blood of Odysseus
sacrifice.
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Book XII

• Back to Circe
• Sirens
• Scylla Charybdis
• Cattle of the Sun
• Scylla Charybdis
• Isle of Calypso

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Sirens
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Sirens
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Odysseus and the Sirens, Herbert James Draper
1909
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Scylla and Charybdis
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Stealing cattle of the sun
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• Legend1 Troy 9 Underworld2 Cicones 10 Sirens3
  Lotus Eaters 11 Scylla and Charybdis4 Cyclopes 12
  Helios5 King Aiolos 13 Calypso6 King Aiolos
  (again) 14 Phaeacians7 Laistryonians 15 Ithaca8
  Circe     

Map of Odysseus travels in the Mediterranean
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