book 10

• Odysseus arrives on Aeolian and stays for a month
• the king's gift to him is a bag which contains all the hostile winds
• just as they are within sight of home, the crew open the bag, and the ships are blown back to Aeolus
• Aeolus sends them away - thinks its a bad omen
• they arrive at Telepylus
• the Laestrygonians destroy 11 of the 12 ships
• Odysseus' ship escapes and comes to Aeaea, home of Circe
• Circe turns his men into pigs
• Odysseus, with help from Hermes, resists Circe's magic
• the men are restored to human form
• Odysseus and his men spend a year with Circe
• Circe tells Odysseus that he must visit the Land of the Dead
• as they leave, Elenor falls off the roof and dies