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The First Wanderings of Odysseus

editor — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 21:33:00 +0000

Following the sack of Troy, Odysseus sailed with twelve ships to the land of the Cicones. Here he sacked the city and enslaved its women, but, not for the last time, his crew disobeyed him, raucously partying instead of making a swift escape. Cicones from the country’s heartland launched a dawn raid, inflicting heavy losses before the Greeks could flee. Sailing south, a storm which wrecked so many other Greek ships forced them ashore; and later, trying to round Cape Malea, the wind and currents drove them off course. When they next made landfall, they had put the real world

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Odysseus’ Wandering Continues

editor — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 21:48:00 +0000

The voyage became a nightmare of increasingly surreal encounters. Visiting Aeolus, King of the Winds, Odysseus was given a leather bag in which were confined every wind except the benign westerly that would waft him safely home. But close to Ithaca – so close they could see the islanders tending their fires – his men opened the bag while Odysseus slept, unleashing a squall which swept them back out to sea. Bound to his ship’s mast, Odysseus alone hears the song of the Sirens and survives. They next came to the island of the Laestrygonians, a land of midnight sun

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