Book Xi Odyssey Summary

Odysseus follows circe s instructions digging a trench at the site prescribed and pouring libations of milk honey mellow wine and pure water.

Book xi odyssey summary. Book 1 book 2 book 3 book 4 book 5 book 6 book 7 book 8 book 9 book 10 book 11 book 12 book 13 book 14 book 15 book 16 book 17 book 18 book 19 book 20 book 21 book 22 book 23 book 24 themes all themes fate the gods and free will piety customs and justice cunning disguise and self restraint memory and grief glory and honor. Odysseus continues telling his tale to alcinous and the phaeacians. They dug a trench offered libations and sacrificed a ewe and a ram.

The land of the dead is near the homes of the cimmerians who live shrouded in mist and cloud 11 17 never seeing the sun. Aeolus presents odysseus with a bag containing all of the winds and he stirs up a westerly wind to guide odysseus and his crew home. Within ten days they are in sight of ithaca but odysseus s shipmates who think that aeolus has secretly.

When odysseus and his men reached the shore they set sail. Odysseus made a pit in the ground and prepared the sacrifice just as circe instructed him to do with honey milk wine water barley and blood from a black ewe and a. Odysseus sailed forth to the river ocean which encircles the earth and offered the proper sacrifice on the shore.

Ten years after the fall of troy the victorious greek hero odysseus has still not returned to his native ithaca. A band of rowdy suitors believing odysseus to be dead has overrun his palace courting his faithful though weakening wife penelope and going through his stock of food with permission from zeus the goddess athena odysseus greatest immortal ally appears in disguise and. Thousands of ghosts appeared when the blood started flowing.

The spirits clustered round the blood. First elpenor spoke requesting cremation and burial. The achaeans sail from the land of the cyclopes to the home of aeolus ruler of the winds.

After a long time they reached the river of oceanos which was the boundary of the world. Find a summary of this and each chapter of the odyssey. When he and his men reached the entrance to the world of the dead they did exactly as circe said.