CLCV 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Laestrygonians, Scheria, Odysseus
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Books 9 and 10 of the odyssey: odysseus is telling his story to the phaeacians. He talks about how he got to there from. Troy: these are the books of the wanderings, the beginning of book 9, odysseus announces who he is then launches into his story. Odysseus, with his men, come to the ciconians. After that, they arrive at the land of the lotus eaters. Once you eat the lotus, you forget home and want to stay forever. Next is the cyclopes, tradition places them in sicily. In book 10, it starts with aeolus giving odysseus a bag of winds. His men want to know what is in the bag, so they open it and all of the winds fly out. They then find the laistrygonian cannibals, who destroy all of. Circe is a witch who turns odysseus" men to swine. In book 11, it is the journey to the underworld, and is also called the nekuia.
