we came to Aiaia, which is an island. "There lived Circe
of the lovely hair, the dread goddess, who talks with mortals."
She is a daughter of Helios, the sun god. For a number of reasons, I suggest he has reached one
of the Islands of the Hebrides, north of Ireland. From where they had beached their ship
Odysseus climbed to a lookout place and saw that they were indeed on an island:
"The endless sea lies all in a circle around it."
On his way back to the ship he kills a huge stag, and drags it back to the ship. Next he:
"counted off --- my companions into two divisions --- I myself
taking one, while--- Eurylochos had the other.
--- He then went on his way, and with him two-and-twenty companions ---."
You remember we referred to this description earlier as part of our calculation to show that
Odysseus' ship was a penteconter.
It seems that the first island he would reach that is an island of any substance going north from
Ireland, would be Barra.
I think it would have to be an island of some size to support such a goddess, a nymph goddess, as
Circe was -- quite a famous one.
Odysseus meets Hermes, an Immortal, who tells him how to deal with the goddess Circe,
pronounced Kirke -- which reminds us that the local word for church over a thousand years later
was kirk, and the principal town of the Orkneys, a little further north, is Kirkwall.
Odysseus and his men stayed a year. Although he was married to Penelope he had a son by Circe.
A year's stay meant they could 'careen' the ship on shore, that is, lay it on its side for repairs, and
stow the gear and supplies away in a cave. Both a beach used locally for this purpose and a
nearby cave were available and formerly so used on Barra, which has prehistoric remains dated to
well before the time of Odysseus.
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She is a daughter of Helios, the sun god. For a number of reasons, I suggest he has reached one
of the Islands of the Hebrides, north of Ireland. From where they had beached their ship
Odysseus climbed to a lookout place and saw that they were indeed on an island:
"The endless sea lies all in a circle around it."
On his way back to the ship he kills a huge stag, and drags it back to the ship. Next he:
"counted off --- my companions into two divisions --- I myself
taking one, while--- Eurylochos had the other.
--- He then went on his way, and with him two-and-twenty companions ---."
You remember we referred to this description earlier as part of our calculation to show that
Odysseus' ship was a penteconter.
It seems that the first island he would reach that is an island of any substance going north from
Ireland, would be Barra.
I think it would have to be an island of some size to support such a goddess, a nymph goddess, as
Circe was -- quite a famous one.
Odysseus meets Hermes, an Immortal, who tells him how to deal with the goddess Circe,
pronounced Kirke -- which reminds us that the local word for church over a thousand years later
was kirk, and the principal town of the Orkneys, a little further north, is Kirkwall.
Odysseus and his men stayed a year. Although he was married to Penelope he had a son by Circe.
A year's stay meant they could 'careen' the ship on shore, that is, lay it on its side for repairs, and
stow the gear and supplies away in a cave. Both a beach used locally for this purpose and a
nearby cave were available and formerly so used on Barra, which has prehistoric remains dated to
well before the time of Odysseus.
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On his way back to the ship he kills a huge stag, and drags it back to the ship. Next he:
"counted off --- my companions into two divisions --- I myself
taking one, while--- Eurylochos had the other.
--- He then went on his way, and with him two-and-twenty companions ---."
You remember we referred to this description earlier as part of our calculation to show that
Odysseus' ship was a penteconter.
It seems that the first island he would reach that is an island of any substance going north from
Ireland, would be Barra.
I think it would have to be an island of some size to support such a goddess, a nymph goddess, as
Circe was -- quite a famous one.
Odysseus meets Hermes, an Immortal, who tells him how to deal with the goddess Circe,
pronounced Kirke -- which reminds us that the local word for church over a thousand years later
was kirk, and the principal town of the Orkneys, a little further north, is Kirkwall.
Odysseus and his men stayed a year. Although he was married to Penelope he had a son by Circe.
A year's stay meant they could 'careen' the ship on shore, that is, lay it on its side for repairs, and
stow the gear and supplies away in a cave. Both a beach used locally for this purpose and a
nearby cave were available and formerly so used on Barra, which has prehistoric remains dated to
well before the time of Odysseus.
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taking one, while--- Eurylochos had the other.
--- He then went on his way, and with him two-and-twenty companions ---."
You remember we referred to this description earlier as part of our calculation to show that
Odysseus' ship was a penteconter.
It seems that the first island he would reach that is an island of any substance going north from
Ireland, would be Barra.
I think it would have to be an island of some size to support such a goddess, a nymph goddess, as
Circe was -- quite a famous one.
Odysseus meets Hermes, an Immortal, who tells him how to deal with the goddess Circe,
pronounced Kirke -- which reminds us that the local word for church over a thousand years later
was kirk, and the principal town of the Orkneys, a little further north, is Kirkwall.
Odysseus and his men stayed a year. Although he was married to Penelope he had a son by Circe.
A year's stay meant they could 'careen' the ship on shore, that is, lay it on its side for repairs, and
stow the gear and supplies away in a cave. Both a beach used locally for this purpose and a
nearby cave were available and formerly so used on Barra, which has prehistoric remains dated to
well before the time of Odysseus.
TO INDEX
You remember we referred to this description earlier as part of our calculation to show that
Odysseus' ship was a penteconter.
It seems that the first island he would reach that is an island of any substance going north from
Ireland, would be Barra.
I think it would have to be an island of some size to support such a goddess, a nymph goddess, as
Circe was -- quite a famous one.
Odysseus meets Hermes, an Immortal, who tells him how to deal with the goddess Circe,
pronounced Kirke -- which reminds us that the local word for church over a thousand years later
was kirk, and the principal town of the Orkneys, a little further north, is Kirkwall.
Odysseus and his men stayed a year. Although he was married to Penelope he had a son by Circe.
A year's stay meant they could 'careen' the ship on shore, that is, lay it on its side for repairs, and
stow the gear and supplies away in a cave. Both a beach used locally for this purpose and a
nearby cave were available and formerly so used on Barra, which has prehistoric remains dated to
well before the time of Odysseus.
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I think it would have to be an island of some size to support such a goddess, a nymph goddess, as
Circe was -- quite a famous one.
Odysseus meets Hermes, an Immortal, who tells him how to deal with the goddess Circe,
pronounced Kirke -- which reminds us that the local word for church over a thousand years later
was kirk, and the principal town of the Orkneys, a little further north, is Kirkwall.
Odysseus and his men stayed a year. Although he was married to Penelope he had a son by Circe.
A year's stay meant they could 'careen' the ship on shore, that is, lay it on its side for repairs, and
stow the gear and supplies away in a cave. Both a beach used locally for this purpose and a
nearby cave were available and formerly so used on Barra, which has prehistoric remains dated to
well before the time of Odysseus.
TO INDEX
Odysseus meets Hermes, an Immortal, who tells him how to deal with the goddess Circe,
pronounced Kirke -- which reminds us that the local word for church over a thousand years later
was kirk, and the principal town of the Orkneys, a little further north, is Kirkwall.
Odysseus and his men stayed a year. Although he was married to Penelope he had a son by Circe.
A year's stay meant they could 'careen' the ship on shore, that is, lay it on its side for repairs, and
stow the gear and supplies away in a cave. Both a beach used locally for this purpose and a
nearby cave were available and formerly so used on Barra, which has prehistoric remains dated to
well before the time of Odysseus.
TO INDEX
A year's stay meant they could 'careen' the ship on shore, that is, lay it on its side for repairs, and
stow the gear and supplies away in a cave. Both a beach used locally for this purpose and a
nearby cave were available and formerly so used on Barra, which has prehistoric remains dated to
well before the time of Odysseus.
TO INDEX