Odyssey+10

=Chapter 10 - Circe=

Summary: (Julia)
Odysseus and his comrades appear on the island of Aeolia. This is home to Aeolus the favourite of the immortal gods. Aeolus entertained Odysseus and asked him questions and stories for a whole month. Odysseus asked Aeolus if he could count at him for his help returning home. Aeolus agreed and supplied him with a leather bag and a breeze to blow his ship West, across the sea. The crew sailed for nine days and nine nights when they came across their homeland. Odysseus's comrades we're upset that along their journey Odysseus was being supplied with gifts and they were not although they were all doing the same work. In efforts to go back to Aeolus's home, Odysseus was rejected an sent back by Aeolus's father. The comrades and Odysseus sailed for six days and six nights until they came to the Laestrygonian land, where giants ate several of Odysseus' s comrades. The rest of the crew was very distraught. Then they came about the island of Aeaea, where Odysseus sent out an exploring party. Then men went into the palace of Circe. She used a drug that turned them into pigs however, Eurylochus had instinct that there was a trap so he never entered. He was able to go back and tell the rest of the crew. When they went back Odysseus got a drug that allowed him to fight the power of Circe's drug. She swore that she was not going to play anymore tricks on him or his comrades. Then she turned the comrades back into even handsomer humans, and Odysseus and his comrades stayed with Circe for a year. Then Odysseus expressed his want to leave and Circe provided him with another journey to the Halls of Hades.

Major Themes (and page numbers): (Sarah)
Hospitality: 125 traveling: 126-127

Locations Traveled and Mentioned: (Maddy)
== Aeolia- pg 125 = Troy - pg 125 Laestrygonian- pg. 127 Aeaea- pg. 128 Ithaca - pg 135 Hades- pg. 137

Study Guide Questions:===
 * Where are the men in this chapter? (Xiao) **

Aeolia


 * What gift does Aeolus give to Odysseus? ( **** Xiao **** ) **

Calfskin bag


 * Why do the men open the bag? ( **** Xiao **** ) **

These men think Odysseus get some money from the others


 * Why does Aeolus refuse to help Odysseus again? ( **** Xiao **** ) **

Because his friends don't believe him


 * Where do the men arrive next? ( **** Xiao **** ) **

Telepylus


 * Who is in charge of the land? (Meghan) **

Antipahtes is in charge of the land.


 * How do the giants treat Odysseus? ( **** Meghan **** ) **

The giants do not treat Odysseus all that well. The giants start to throw big rock's at Odysseus's men.


 * Where do they arrive next? ( **** Meghan **** ) **

They arrive to the island of Aeaea.


 * What does Circe do to the men who go to inspect the island? ( **** Meghan **** ) **

The Circe invited the men into her house and she turned them all into pigs.


 * What does Hermes tell Odysseus to do to save his friends? ( **** Meghan **** ) **

Hermes tells him that he must take this drug that will make him immune to her evil and then go into her house. Then Odysseus must charge her with his sword and get the men turned back.

 * What does Odysseus convince Circe to do? (Annie) **
 * He forces her to change his men which were pigs back into men. After that he asks Circe how to get back to Ithaca.**


 * How long do they stay with Circe? ( **** Annie **** ) **
 * 1 year. **


 * Where does Odysseus have to go next? ( **** Annie **** ) **
 * Hades. **


 * What must Odysseus do once he arrives there? ( **** Annie **** ) **
 * He must go speak to the spirit of Theban Teireesias. **


 * What happened to Elpenor? ( **** Annie **** ) **
 * He got drunk and went to bed on the roof without his friends and then in the morning he forgot to take the ladder down and fell off the roof and broke his neck. **