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The Odyssey ch. 10-12
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01/23/2013

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Ch. 10 Where he goes after land of Cyclops
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Aeo-lia, home of Aeo-lus, ruler of the winds
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Ch. 10 Why they don't make it back with Ithica in sight
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the crew think the bag of winds has treasure
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Ch. 10 Where they go after Aelous
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land of the Lae-stry-gon-ians
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Ch. 10 The king and queen of Lae-stry-gon-ians
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King Anti-pha-tes and unnamed queen
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Ch. 10 What the Laestrygonians do to Od's ships
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pelt the ships with boulders
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Ch. 10 Where they go after Laestrygonia
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Ae-ae-a, land of witch goddess Circe
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Ch. 10 What Circe does to the men
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turns them to pigs
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Ch. 10 God who helps Od and his disguise
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Hermes, young man
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Ch. 10 Drug Od takes to out-drug Circe
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Moly
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Ch. 10 How Circes tells them to get home
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Travel to Hades and speak with Tire-si-as, a blind prophet
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Ch. 10 Who gets drunk and what happens
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Elp-en-or, he breaks his neck
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Ch. 11 Where Od goes to attract the souls of the dead
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The River of Ocean in the land of Cimm-er-ians
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Ch. 11 Souls that visit Od
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1. Epenor, begging to be buried 2. Tiresias, foretelling his fate 3. His mother, who died of grief waiting for his return 4. Agamemmnon 5. Achilles, who asks about his son 6. Tries to talk to Ajax who killed himself but he won't 7. Herc
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Ch. 11 What Tiresias warns him about
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Do not touch the flocks of the Sun when he reaches Thrinacia
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Ch. 11 The 2 punished he sees
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Sisyphus pushing his boulder and Tantalus with grapes and water just out of reach
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Ch. 12 How Od and men resist the Sirens
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Plugs their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast
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Ch. 12 Narrow straight
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Scy-lla, 6 headed monster and Cha-ry-bd-is, a whirlpool
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Ch. 12 Who persuades them to get off at Thrinacia
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Eu-ry-lo-chus
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