Thrinacia

So drive past with all thy force, and call on Crataiis, mother of Scylla, which bore her for a bane to mortals; and she will then let her from darting forth thereafter.

Then thou shalt come unto the isle Thrinacia.

There are many kine of Helios and his brave flocks feeding: seven herds of kine, and as many goodly flocks of sheep, and fifty in each flock.

They have no part in birth or in corruption; and there are goddesses to shepherd them, nymphs with fair tresses, Phaëthusa and Lampetie, whom bright Neæra bare to Helios Hyperion.

Now when the lady their mother had borne and nursed them, she carried them to the isle Thrinacia, to dwell afar, that they should guard their father's flocks and his kine with shambling gait.

If thou dost these no hurt, being heedful of thy return, truly ye may even yet reach Ithaca, albeit in evil case.

But if thou hurtest them, I foreshow ruin for thy ship and for thy men; and even though thou shouldest thyself escape, late shalt thou return in evil plight with the loss of all thy company.' Folks, there are just some days I cannot get a passage out of my mouth.

We already talked about Scylla and Charybdis here essentially saying, uh, "They are not mortal.

They pass Scylla and Charybdis.

They pass Thrinacia, where the Ithacans will eat the sun's cows to their great cost.

They arrive at the f- land of the Phaeacians, where Odysseus will, and Arete, their queen, asks her husband, Alcinous, not to hand Medea over to the chasing Colchians.

Alcinous says if they've already spent the night together, he won't, but otherwise, he will.

Odysseus, his passage by the Sirens and by Scylla and Charybdis.

The sacrilege committed by his men in the isle of Thrinacia.

The destruction of his ships and men.

How he swam on a plank nine days together, and came to Ogygia, where he stayed seven years with Calypso.

Let's just go down the list of what he has told Odysseus, uh, as I'm certain it's going to come into play for the rest of this book.

Um, essentially confirms that Poseidon is persecuting him for blinding Polyphemus, that once they leave the underworld here, Odysseus and his crew have to control themselves on, uh, Thrinacia.

I believe I pronounced that incorrectly, but deal with me.

Um, where they're going to encounter some sacred cattle of Helios.