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The Land of Helios Cattle
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The Land of Helios Cattle
in The Odyssey
Where Odysseus landed his ship
Myth Explanation
Helios riding in his chariot across the sky is the sunrise until the sunset
In The Odyssey
People/things met:
The cattle
Lampetie, a guardian of the cattle, ran to tell Helios what had happened to his sacred cattle. Helios went into a rage, begging Zeus to punish them or else he would stop shining over Earth.
Helios has 350 cattle, which represent the days of the lunar year
Thrinacia
People/things met:
Odysseus' interactions with Helios took place on the island of Thrinacia. Today it is better known as Sicily, the small island off the southern tip of Italy.
Zeus killed all the men except Odysseus with the thundrbolt he sent to their ship a week later.
People/things met:
Lampetie & Phaetousa
People/things met:
In The Odyssey
The crew was starving for a month when Eurylochus convinced the men to just eat the cattle now, and build a tribute to Helios when they returned to Ithaca. They did this while Odysseus was asleep after praying to the gods.
Teiresias
Helios
After Odysseus is warned by both
Teiresias and Circe to keep the hunger of himself
and his crew under control and refrain from
eating Helios' cattle, they land their ship on
the island of Thrinacia. Odysseus instructs
his men not to eat the cattle, to only
eat what they had on
the ship.
People/things met:
Zeus