Book 12 - Scylla and Charybdis

• ‘I sent off a party to


  Circe’s house to fetch the dead body of Elpenor’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘What audcaity… to descend


  alive into the house of Hades! Other men die once; you will now die twice‘ [ Circe ]
• ‘I myself will give you


  your route and make everything clear, to save you from the disasters you may suffer as a result of evil scheming on land or sea’ [ Circe ]
• ‘Your next encounter


  will be with the Sirens’ [ Circe ]
• ‘This will allow you


  to listen with enjoyment to the Siren’s voices’ [ Circe ]
• ‘Though I cannot give you precise


  advice - you must choose for yourself - I will tell you about both’ [ Circe ]
• Odysseus I epithet?

  Illustrious Odysseus
• ‘It is the home of Scylla,


  the creature with the dreadful bark’ [ Circe ]
• ‘No crew can boast they ever


  sailed their ship past Scylla unscathed, for from every blue-prowed vessel she snatches and carries off a man with each of her heads’ [ Circe ]
• ‘Heaven keep you from


  the spot when she does this because not even the Earthshaker could save you from the destruction’ [ Circe ]
• Charybdis D epithet?

  Deadly Charybdis
• ‘Now if you leave them 


  untouched and fix your mind on getting home, there is some chance that all of you may yet reach Itacha’ [ Circe ]
• ‘But if you hurt them,


  then I predict the destruction of your ship and your company’ [ Circe ]
• ‘Then Circe, that formidable 


  goddess with the beautiful hair and a woman’s voice, sent us the friendly escort of a favourable wind’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘It is not right that only one


  or two of us should know the prophecies that divine Circe has made to me, and I am going to pass them on to you’ [ Odysseus ]
• Odysseus I epithet?

  Illustrious Odysseus
• ‘No seaman ever sailed his black ship


  past this spot without listening to the honey-sweet tones that flow from our lips‘ [ Siren ]
• ‘We are men who have met trouble before.


  And this trouble is no worse than when the Cyclops used his brutal strength to imprison us in his cave’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘Yet my courage, strategy and 


  intelligence found a way out for us even from there; and I am sure that this too will be a memory for us one day’ [ Odysseus ]
• ’The crew obeyed


  me immediately’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘But I allowed myself to forget

  Circe’s irksome instruction not to arm myself’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘My men turned

  Pale with terror’ [ Odysseus ]
• ’”Odysseus” they called


  out to me in their anguish’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘In all I have gone through as

  I explored the pathways of the seas, I have never had to witness a more pitiable sight than that’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘And there came into my mind


  the words of Tiresias, the blind Theban prophet, and of Circe of Aeaea, who had each been so insistent in warning me to avoid this Island’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘They warned me


  insistently to keep clear of the Island‘ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘You must be made of iron


  through and through to forbid your men…‘ [ Eurylochus ]
• ‘This speech of Eurylochus


  was greeted by applause from all the rest’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘I call on every man of you to


  Give his solemn promise that if we come across a herd of cattle of a large flock of sheep, he will not kill a single ox or sheep in a wanton fit of recklessness‘ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘the crew agreed and gave


  the promise I had asked for’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘I ordered all my men

  to gather round, and gave them a warning’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘My strong-willed 


  company accepted this’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘I went inland to pray to the 


  Gods in the hope that one of them might show me a way of escape‘ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘In the meantime Eurylochus


  Was broaching a wicked scheme to his mates’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘All forms of death are


  abominable, but death by starving is the most miserable way to meet one’s doom’ [ Eurylochus ]
• ‘I would sooner drown instantly 


  in a watery grave than waste away by slow degrees on a desert island‘ [ Eurylochus ]
• ‘Their prayers done, they slit


  the cows’ throats and flayed them…’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘I exclaimed in horror and


  called out to the immortal gods’ [ Odysseus ]
• ‘As for the culprits, I will


  soon strike their ship with a blinding bolt out on the wine-dark sea and smash it to pieces’ [ Zeus ]
• ‘Before she had run very far, a howling


  wind suddenly sprang up from the West and hit us with hurricane force’ [ Odysseus ]