Aeolus Circe and 3 tasks Odysseus Meets Aeolus

Aeolus, Circe, and 3 tasks

Odysseus Meets Aeolus God of Winds Gives Odysseus a gift of all favorable winds to guide him home Bad winds in a bag Don’t open the bag!

Odysseus and Another Boo-Boo Odysseus does not tell his men what is in the bag They will make it to Ithaca, but don’t open the bag His men lose their trust They open the bag when Odysseus falls asleep

How He Met Circe Aeolus refuses to help him They drift at sea until they reach land again Odysseus sends a group of men to explore Only one comes back There’s a witch! Turned the men into pigs!

Odysseus and Circe On his way to fight Circe, Ody meets Hermes gives him moly for protection against her powers Circe cannot harm Ody because of this She agrees to return the men to normal and let them be free if….

Uh-oh… Odysseus Eating, spends 12 days with Circe drinking. . . relaxing… When he tries to leave he finds his ship is buried in sand…. Each day with Circe is month in normal earth time…whoops!

Tiresias the dead Soothsayer Odysseus travels to the underworld to meet Tiresias He meets his mother – she committed suicide when she believed Ody would never come home Tiresias tells Ody that he will get home – but do not harm Apollo’s cattle!

3 Challenges Sirens Beautiful winged women who lure you to death with their voices Scylla A 6 -headed monster Charybdis A monster who lives at the bottom of a whirlpool