Book 10 - Circe

• Where is the first place Odysseus arrives?

  Aeolia
• ‘Countless delicacies are laid


  before them, and all day long the house is filled with the savoury smell of roasting meat’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘He made arrangements for


  my journey and presented me with a leather bag’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Zeus had put 


  him in charge of the winds’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘We who have gone every


  bit as far come home with empty hands’ [ Crew-mate ]
• ‘Come one: lets find out and


  see how much gold and silver is hidden in that bag’ [ Crew-mate ]
• ‘I debated within myself whether


  to jump overboard and drown or stay among the living and quietly endure’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘An untrustworthy crew and 


  a fatal sleep were my downfall’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘The world holds no one more 


  Damnable than you, and it is not right for me to entertain and equip a man detested by the gods’ [ Aeolus ]
• ’We left the island and 


  resumed our journey in a state of gloom’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Instead I brought my black

  ship to rest outside the harbour and made her fast with a cable to a rock’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘They were confronted by 


  Antiphates’ wife, a woman of mountainous proportions; the sight of her appalled them‘ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Who promptly made his murderous 


  intentions clear, pouncing on one of my men to eat him for supper’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘They began pelting my

  flotilla with lumps of rock such as an ordinary man could barely lift’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘My ship was 


  safe. But that was the end of all the rest’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Aeaea, the home of the beautiful


  Circe, a formidable goddess, with a mortal woman’s voice’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Some god 


  guided us in’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘After some thought I decided the better


  course would be to return first to my ship on the beach, give my men a meal, and send out an exploring party’ [ Odysseus ]
• ’Some god was moved to


  pity by my forlorn condition’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘They could not help remembering 


  what Antiphates the Laestrygonian had done’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Prowling about the place were

  mountain wolves and lions that Circe had bewitched with her magic drugs’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘They could hear Circe within, singing 


  in her beautiful voice as she went to and fro at her great and everlasting loom’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Eurylochus suspected a 


  trap and stayed outside’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘But into this dish she introduced 


  a noxious drug, to make them lose all memory of their native land’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Now they had pigs’ heads and 


  bristles, and they grunted like pigs; but their minds were as human as they had been before‘ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘He was in such

  anguish that he could not utter a single word’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘But I shall go.

  I have absolutely no choice’ [ Eurylochus ]
• ‘I was nearing the sorceress’s


  palace when I met Hermes’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘However, I will save you


  and deliver you from your trouble’ [ Hermes ]
• ’I will tell

  you exactly what to do’ [ Hermes ]
• ‘The gods call


  it Moly’ [ Hermes ]
• ‘For never before have I known


  a man who could resist that drug once he had taken it and swallowed it down’ [ Circe ]
• ‘I am sure you are


  Odysseus, that resourceful man’ [ Circe ]
• ‘Nothing, goddess, would induce me to


  come into your bed unless you can bring yourself to swear a solemn oath that you have no other mischief in store for me‘ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Could any honourable man bear


  to taste food and drink before he had freed his men and seen them face to face’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘They became men again and


  looked younger, and much more handsome and taller than before’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Eurylochus was against me


  and did his best to keep the whole company back’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘It was this man’s

  reckless folly that cost them their lives’ [ Eurylochus ]
• ‘I considered drawing the long


  sword from my sturdy side and lopping his head off to roll in the dust, even though he was a close kinsman of mine’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘We stayed on day after

  day for a whole year, feasting on lavish quantities of meat and mellow wine‘ [ Odysseus ]