~*Book 10 notes and quotes*~

Quotes--
"Take yourself out of this island, creeping thing-...Your voyage here was cursed by heaven!"-The king asked them why they had returned and when Odysseus explained requesting more help, he responded by that.
"Odysseus then you are, o great contender, of whom the glittering god with the golden wand spoke to me ever, and fore told the black swift ship would carry you from Troy. Put up your weapon in the sheath. We two shall mingle and make love upon our bed. So mutual trust may come of play and love."-When he drank her potion it did not affect him and she was impressed and assumed that he was a god or a great man. When she found out who he was, she said that.
"Captain, shake off this trance, and think of home-if home indeed awaits us..."-After a year on the island, one of the shipmates spoke to Odysseus saying that
"Homeward you think we must be sailing to our own land; no elsewhere is the voyage Kirk has laid upon me. We must go to the cold homes of death and pale Persephone to hear Teiresias tell of time to come."-As they prepare to leave, Elpenor who had fallen asleep in drunkenness on the roof, fell and died. No one noticed as Odysseus instructed his men whiling saying that quote.

Notes-
The next stop for O is the island of Aoelus, where he stays for a month.
Before he leaves Aoelus gives him a bag of all the winds sealed up in it, except for the gentle western one. The western wind will carry him home.
on the 10th day of sailys O's home town Ithica is in sight. but then he falls into a deep sleep. His crewman thinks the bag of winds is actually filled with treasures and gems. So they get really jelouse. so when O is sleeping they open the bag to take the treauses from him, but they actually find out that its the wind. the winds then send him all the way back. O askes for Aoelus help again but she refuses because she thinks that he is now cursed by the gods.
Since they have no wind to help them, the men and O are forced to row.
After a week of rowing, they reach the land of Laestrygonians. All the ships then anchor in the harbor except for O's.
O then sends out 3 men to find out what the people are like. But one of the Laestrygonians eats one of the men. this Laestrygonian is named, Antiphates. After that all the Laestrygonians attack O's men. Most of them die except for O's ship and men.
They then reach the island of Circes.
At circe's island they spend a few days on the shore and then they finally go to shore. He sends the men to her, but then she turns them into pigs (swine). O is forced to go see her by himself, without any back up. While he is on his way there he is stopped by Hermes who gives him a special herb that prevents circes from doing special magic on O.
O then gets her to turn back his men to humans again.
They stay with circes for a year, but finally O's crew expresses that they want to leave and go home, Circes finally lets them too, but before they get to they have to go to Hades, the land of the dead. They have to speak to Tiresias. Before they leave Circes gives O a ram and some wine, honey, and milk to use as a sacrifice at hades, for Elpenor.