Odysseus urges his exhausted crew to ignore, Thrinakia, the island of the sun god, Helios, but the men insisting on landing. But Odysseus makes them swear not to touch the sun god’s cattle. Storms rages for a month and their food supply is now cut short. One shipmate, Eurylochus, convinces the others that eating the cattle is preferable to starvation. Odysseus wakes up to discover that his men have feasted on the cattle. He curses the gods for letting him sleep during the feast so that he was not able to restrain or stop his men. When Helios discovers what the men have done, he besseches Zeus to punish Odysseus and his men.
When Odysseus and his men set sail again, they are punished by death – a thunderbolt from Zeus destroys their boat and all of the men drown. Only Odysseus survives. Exhausted and nearly drowned, he makes his way to Calypso’s island, where we originally met him.
When Odysseus and his men set sail again, they are punished by death – a thunderbolt from Zeus destroys their boat and all of the men drown. Only Odysseus survives. Exhausted and nearly drowned, he makes his way to Calypso’s island, where we originally met him.