Odyssey Book 10 Mr. McCloskey

Book 10

100 points

http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/Odyssey.pdf

http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/Odyssey.pdf 

 McCloskey Dec 17, 2019

1. Who is Aeolous? What does he give Odysseus to help get him home?
Keeper of the winds. 

A sack containing all the winds except the favorable west wind.

this ends up pushing him back because his men open the bag when finally in sight of Ithaca.

2. Who is Circe? What "spell" does she cast on the rest of Odysseus's men?
Forgetfulness and drunken revelry. The men were changed into animals after being spellbound.

3. At the end of the chapter, Odysseus must "detour to the land of the dead". What character will he encounter there?

Odysseus goes to the Land of the Dead because Circe told him that to get home, he would have to speak to the prophet Tiresias.

When he reaches his destination, he sacrifices a ram and speaks to his dead comrade, Elpenor, who tells him that he wants to be buried properly. After that, he speaks to Tiresias. Tiresias tells him that he will sail to the island of Helios; the sun god's island where he keeps his cows. Tiresias warns Odysseus not to touch the cows or else all of his men will die. When he gets home, he has to kill all of the suitors flirting with his wife. When that's done, Odysseus will live happily ever after and die of old age.

... Or so Tiresias says.