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Odyssey 9-12 Odysseus’ tells the Phaeacians tales of his travels

Odyssey 9-12 Odysseus’ tells the Phaeacians tales of his travels. Cave of Polyphemus the Cyclops. Book IX covers. Cicones in Thrace Lotus Eaters Cyclopes. Blinding of Polyphemus the Cyclops. Lotus- Eaters.

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Odyssey 9-12 Odysseus’ tells the Phaeacians tales of his travels

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  1. Odyssey 9-12 Odysseus’ tells the Phaeacians tales of his travels Cave of Polyphemus the Cyclops

  2. Book IXcovers • Cicones in Thrace • Lotus Eaters • Cyclopes Blinding of Polyphemus the Cyclops

  3. Lotus- Eaters Odysseus’ men ate the lotus and no longer thought of home—or anything else but eating more lotus. Odysseus had to drag them to the ships.

  4. Land of the Cyclopes - lawless The episode highlights Odysseus’ cleverness. He gives Polyphemus a fake name, “No-one” (Ουδεις). 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.

  5. Book X • Aeolus, Keeper of the Winds • Laestrygonians • Circe, the witch

  6. Aeolos, keeper of the winds

  7. Shore of Laestrygonians

  8. Circe

  9. 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.

  10. Book XI • Visit to Hades to Speak with Tiresias

  11. Approach of the dead to the pool of blood.

  12. Ghosts drink from the blood of Odysseus’ sacrifice.

  13. Book XII • Back to Circe • Sirens • Scylla & Charybdis • Cattle of the Sun • Scylla & Charybdis • Isle of Calypso

  14. Sirens

  15. Sirens

  16. Odysseus and the Sirens, Herbert James Draper 1909

  17. Scylla and Charybdis

  18. Stealing cattle of the sun

  19. Legend:1 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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