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Jessi's Odyssey: Books 11 and 12 (Book 11 (Plot (Odysseus goes to the…
Jessi's Odyssey: Books 11 and 12
Book 11
Plot
Odysseus goes to the River of Oceans in the Cimmerian's land. He then pours libations for the dead and does what Circe tells him to do to attract the spirits. He dug a ditch and put blood in it ot attract spirits.
The dead spirits go around him and wait for blood.
The first to appear is Elpenor, the man who died in the house of Circe. He asks for a proper burial.
Then comes the prophet Tiresias. He gives Odysseus a telling of his fate. He tells that Poseidon is angry with Odysseus blinding his son. Fate: He will return home to his wife and clear the suitors from the palace, then travel to a far off land to appease Poseidon. He warns him to not touch the flocks in the land of the Sun, or he will loose his crew and face many hardships.
Odysseus spoke to his mother. She tells him about what is happening back at his home. She then reveals that his father is at a rough time and the reason for her death was grieving over his death.
Then mythical women came that were associated with more famous men (see gender) (see characters for more specifics) Coming in this order:
Odysseus stops his story and asks to sleep, but the kind and queen urge him to keep going and ask if he encountered any of the fallen in Troy.
Odysseus says he saw the ghost of Agamemnon and how he recounted his murder.
Achilles regretted trading life for honor.
Ajax won't talk to Odysseus.
Odysseus then sees the souls of the tortured even after death and grows frightened and runs away.
Characters
Tyro: The wife of Aeolus. She was seduced by Zeus and gave brith to two children. Then gave birth to some of Cretheus's children.
Antiope: Gave birth to two of Zeus's children who were the first settlers in Thebes.
Alcmene: Gave birth to Heracles. AKA Hercules
Megara: Heracles's wife and Creon's child
Epicaste: Married her son then killed herself
Chloris: Gave birth to Nestor
Ledia: Mother of Castor and Polydeuces. And Helen and Clymestra (though not depicted in the story)
Themes
Men and Women: In this chapter, each female character is described based on their male counterparts and their relationship to them.
Agamemnon advised that Odysseus should secretly land on his island and come back in disguise.
Book 12
Plot
Odysseus returns to Circe to bury Elpenor.
Circe describes the obstacles he will encounter going home and how to face them. (the same way that the man in Hades described) This is strange, as she told him to go to Hades to learn, but tells the same stuff.
The men approach the Sirens and they clog their ears with wax as Odysseus was instructed by Circe. He ties himself to the ship and upon hearing the music and the promise of telling his future, he begs his men to let him free, but they just tie him tighter.
They choose not to sail through the crashing rocks. The men sail between Scylla and Charybdis. He holds his course nearby Scylla's rock and 6 of his men get eaten.
He goes to Thrinacia next. The island of the Sun. He wants to skip it, but Eurylochus beg for a rest.
The men survive on provisions, but they eventually run out. While Odysseus sleeps/prays the men slaughter the cows and eat them.
Furious with their actions Zeus sends a storm and kills all the men, except Odysseus who survives and drifts to Calypso.
Zeus punishes them since he was threatened to have the sun shining in the underworld.
Characters
Eurylochus is a very self asserted and controlling member of Odysseus's crew.
Scylla a creature with 6 heads who eats 6 of Odysseus's strongest men.
Charybdis is a sea monster that is rationalized as a whirlpool.
Themes
Men and Women: The sirens are shown to tempt men as women. The other monsters: Scylla and Charybdis are also portrayed as women. The MEN touch the cattle, that they are warned not to.
The monsters are an explanation of a narrow straight in Italy