The Odyssey Book Xi Summary

When he and his men reached the entrance to the world of the dead they did exactly as circe said.

The odyssey book xi summary. 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. Odysseus sailed forth to the river ocean which encircles the earth and offered the proper sacrifice on the shore. Within ten days they are in sight of ithaca but odysseus s shipmates who think that aeolus has secretly.

Find a summary of this and each chapter of the odyssey. Before odysseus and his men depart circe told odysseus that he must pass the island of the sirens who will try to lure the men to their deaths with their songs. Ten years after the fall of troy the victorious greek hero odysseus has still not returned to his native ithaca.

Chapter summary for homer s the odyssey book 11 summary. The spirits clustered round the blood. 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.

Odysseus continues telling his tale to alcinous and the phaeacians. They dug a trench offered libations and sacrificed a ewe and a ram. In book 11 of homer s the odyssey odysseus continues to share the story of his difficult journey with alkinoos and the phaiakians.

Odysseus and his remaining men leave kirke and sail toward the. The achaeans sail from the land of the cyclopes to the home of aeolus ruler of the winds. Odysseus promises him a proper sailor s burial back on circe s island.

The men returned to aeaea performed all the proper funeral rites for elpenor and buried his body. While waiting for tiresias odysseus cuts down the other phantoms that emerge including elpenor who had fallen from circe s roof. First elpenor spoke requesting cremation and burial.