The ship then passes between Scylla and Charybdis, the dreaded rock-and-whirlpool duo that destroys many ships.

Blinded, Polyphemus cannot find the men and finally rolls back the boulder blocking the entrance and puts his arms in front of it, figuring he will catch the men as they try to run outside. Contains all the highlights that I remember from studying the full text but presented in an illustrated and simplified version.At their next stop, several men scout ahead and encounter the sorceress Circe, who turns them all into pigs except one man lucky enough to escape. We may even wonder how Odysseus, after ten years of the despair and triumphant ecstasy of war, can go back to his old married life. In the world of the dead, Odysseus and his men lure Teiresias’s spirit with blood—a favorite drink of the dead—and ask his help. im not able to give as detailed of a review as I would cause I just randomly remembered it today but yea.

His shrewdness, resourcefulness, and endurance enabled him to capture Troy (through the device of the Trojan horse) and endure nine years of wandering and adventures before reaching his home in Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, awaited him. So when I realized I wanted to know more about Odysseus (because greek mythology is really rad), i immediately went to the children's section of the library.

This aspect of Odysseus has led some of the epic’s interpreters to see him as thirsty for experience, regardless of the cost to himself or to those, like Penelope and Telemachus, to whom he owes allegiance. Eighth, Odysseus and his men sail past the Sirens, who sing songs to lure passing crews and ships to their deaths. They find the cave empty - apart from some of the shepherd's animals and cheeses - so they slaughter a lamb and enjoy a roast meal. When he gets there, he's got to fight a bunch of bad guys who are holding his wife captive and then convince her he really is her long-lost husband. In this book, kids learn more about the Ancient Greek culture through the fabulous illustrations and the enlightening text.