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Life Lesson- from Circe.

Circe the Enchantress & The Land of the Dead

Don't judge a book by its cover!

Circe was a beautiful, powerful sorcerer who fooled them with a delicious meal and a smile.

Many members of Odysseus' crew were entranced and did not think that she was malevolent and would turn them into pigs.

Literary devices throughout the story

Imagery

  • "Letting their black blood stream into the well pit"
  • "she wove ambrosial fabric sheer and bright"

Metaphor

  • "The honey lights of home"

Simile

  • Then, a seaborne death, soft as this hand of mist, will come upon you"....

By Tatum, Maddy, and Cecilia

And that's not all......

Tiresias tells Odysseus that there are

many men at home courting his wife!

AND HE WILL FIGHT THEM!!!

And, Odysseus is to go with an oar to a

land that's never seen the sea.. and to try to make amends with the Gods, specifically Poseidon, by sacrificing

a ram, a bull, and a great buck boar.

After these adventures, Odysseus supposed to die at sea.

Breaking news: Poseidon's still bitter!

Tiresias warns Odysseus that the

journey home will be fraught

with danger, as Poseidon is still

angry for his son, the Cyclops, having

died at Odysseys' hands.

Odysseus must pass through a narrow strip of land and avoid the sea. He is not to eat of the sun god Helios' catle.

Odysseus frees dead souls

Poseidon

Odysseus killed the Cyclops, one of Poseidon’s sons, which made Poseidon mad and he held a grudge towards Odysseus and made the sea very difficult for him to travel.

Odysseus fights off all of the dead that swarm him,

and eventually finds...... The blind prophet, Tiresias!

Tiresias

He is a famous blind prophet. He delivers news thoroughly, and doesn’t sum things up. He tells it as it is. He tells Odysseus that if he sacrifices to Lord Poseidon and brings the oar to the land that’s never seen the sea, then he will have an easy death at an old age and his country folk will have peace.

After the sacrifice, the souls gathered. Maidens feeling grief from a heartbreak and soldiers still dripping with blood from the battle and still wearing armor appeared.

The Land of the Dead

Odysseus promises to sacrifice the best heifer in Ithaca and a beautiful black lamb.

To "assuge the nations of the dead", he killed the lamb and ewe.

Eurylochus saves the day!

Circe has met her match!

Panicked Eurylochus runs to the ship, gasping with fear after witnessing his friends turn into pigs.

Odysseus runs off to Circe's glade.

The god Hermes stops him along the way and gives Odysseus an herb (called moly) which will keep him safe from Circe's charms.

Realizing that Odysseus is immune to her sorcery,

Circe falls in love with Odysseus.

She frees his men- and they stay for "several seasons" In the end, Odysseus and his men persuade her to let them go.

She parts with them, giving Odysseus the advice to go to the land of the dead, see the prophet Teiresias, and find his destiny.

Circe Island

Thank you!

Eurylochus

He goes with his gut. “He feared a snare” He knew that Circe wasn’t good and trusted his instincts.

It's a trap!!!!!

Odysseus’ men leave the ship to find a glade with wild, but passive animals (lions and wolves). In the center sits a beautiful woman named Circe who is weaving. All the men go after her but Eurylochus -He’s suspicious of a trap. Polites was the opposite, he trusted her.

Circe serves them a delicious dinner, complete with fine wine. However, she's added her own "vile pinch"..... which makes them forget their "fatherland".

They're turned into pigs, with human minds, and shut into a sty.

Circe:

Polites

  • She is two-faced!
  • She tricked Odysseus’s men into thinking she is nice and beautiful. Then she manipulates them with her evil ways and turns them into pigs.
  • She prepares them a meal of cheese and barley and wine which seems nice at first, but then she turns on them.
  • They definitely were not expecting that she would turn them into pigs.

Just as he sounds. He is polite and has good manners. He thought that Circe was nice and wanted to greet her. He convinced everyone that she is okay, except for Eurylochus.

Odysseus

Aeolia

Odysseus's men

Island of the Laestrygonians!

Odysseus is the brave hero. When he finds that his crew has been transformed into pigs, he gives no second thought to rushing off to save them. Circe realizes that she can’t trick him. He just wants to go home. He is not shaken from his path even with Circe. He is very brave and goes to save his crew that was turned to pigs. When he was in the land of the dead he swallowed his disgust about seeing all the dead people. He was very brave even with the harsh journey. He also keeps his promises, “vowing to slaughter my best heifer for them before she calved, at home in Ithaca, and burn the choice bits on the altar fire, as for Teiresias, I swore to sacrifice a black lamb, handsomest of all our flock.”

Odysseus's men are shown to have characteristics of curiosity. They act on impulse and think the bag is treasure.

Odysseus and his crew are blown to this island. Cannibal giants! They eat some of Odysseus' crew and destroy all ships but one.

Odysseus barely escapes.. and they go from there to Circe Island.

Odysseus lands here, land of the wind

god, Aeolus. Doing Odysseus a favor,

Aeolus puts all the evil winds in a bull-hide bag.

The suspicious sailors think it's treasure and open up.

All of these wild winds blow them back to Aeolia, where Aeolus blows them away again.

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