Book X · Episode 2 of 6
Landfall at Aeaea
Crew lands at Aeaea, feasts on stag
Scenes
- Landing at Aeaea — Survivors land, Odysseus kills stag
- Grief follows the loss of comrades
- Aeaea is home to fair-haired Circè
- He climbs a height on day three
- Smoke rises from a woodland palace
- A god sends the stag his way
- A Feast on the Shore — Odysseus urges despairing men to feast
- He warns against Hades’ realm too soon
- Food and wine still remain aboard
- Men marvel at the huge stag’s size
- They feast from morning until sunset
- At dawn he calls a council
- Smoke in the Woods — Odysseus spots smoke, men weep
- He cannot tell east from west here
- Smoke rose from a thicket he scouted
- Their courage collapses at the news
- Men recall Antiphates and the Cyclops
- Tears bring them no real help
- Drawing Lots — Lots send Eurylochus forward in tears
- Men split into two companies
- Eurylochus leads the second company
- They shake lots in a bronze helmet
- Twenty-two men follow him out
- Odysseus and the rest stay behind