Book XI · Episode 6 of 6
Judgment and Departure
Minos judges, Odysseus flees Gorgon
Scenes
- Judges and the Damned — Minos judges, damned suffer
- Minos holds a golden scepter
- Orion drives beasts with his mace
- Vultures tear Tityus for assaulting Leto
- Water recedes when Tantalus bends to drink
- Sisyphus’ boulder rolls back down each time
- Heracles and the Flight — Heracles recalls hound, Odysseus flees
- His true self feasts among the gods
- His baldric bears beasts and battle scenes
- Hermes and Athena helped him once
- He hopes to glimpse Theseus and Pirithous
- He fears Persephone’s Gorgon head