Book XII · Episode 5 of 5
Shipwreck and Survival
Bolt sinks ship, Odysseus survives
Scenes
- The Fatal Tempest — Zeus’ bolt drowns entire crew
- Odysseus returns to chide his men
- Cattle skins creep, roasting flesh lows
- Crew feasts on the herd six days
- The falling mast kills the pilot
- Sulfurous smoke fills the ship
- Adrift to Calypso — Odysseus escapes Charybdis, drifts to Calypso
- A south wind sweeps him toward Charybdis
- He clings to the overhanging fig tree
- Whirlpool spews up his mast and keel
- Zeus spares his second brush with Scylla
- After nine days, Calypso welcomes him