Odyssey: A Daily Odyssey through Homer’s The Odyssey
Jun 19, 2026 · 8 min · 7 segments
Fear speaks plainly at last, but duty speaks louder. When retreat offers safety, resolve chooses danger. In *The Odyssey*, Book 10, Eurylochus recounts how Circe lured the men into her halls and…
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We found within the forest glades the fair halls, builded of polished stone, in a place with wide prospect.
and there was one that fared before a mighty web, and sang a clear song, a goddess she was, or a woman.
And they cried aloud and called to her, and straightway she came forth, and opened the shining doors and bade them in.
So spake ye, whereon I cast about my shoulder my silver-studded sword." a great blade of bronze and slung my bow about me and bade me lead me again by the way that he came but he caught me with both hands and by my knees he besought me and bewailing him spake to me winged words lead me not thither against my will o fosterling of zeus but leave me here for well i know that thou shalt return thyself no more nor bring any one of all thy fellowship Nay, let us flee the swifter of those that be here, for even yet we may escape the evil day.
On this wise he spake, but I answered him, saying, Eurylochus, abide for thy part here in this place, eating and drinking by the black hollow ship, but I will go forth, for a strong constraint is laid on me.
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We found within the forest glades the fair halls, builded of polished stone, in a place with wide prospect.
and there was one that fared before a mighty web, and sang a clear song, a goddess she was, or a woman.
And they cried aloud and called to her, and straightway she came forth, and opened the shining doors and bade them in.
So spake ye, whereon I cast about my shoulder my silver-studded sword." a great blade of bronze and slung my bow about me and bade me lead me again by the way that he came but he caught me with both hands and by my knees he besought me and bewailing him spake to me winged words lead me not thither against my will o fosterling of zeus but leave me here for well i know that thou shalt return thyself no more nor bring any one of all thy fellowship Nay, let us flee the swifter of those that be here, for even yet we may escape the evil day.
On this wise he spake, but I answered him, saying, Eurylochus, abide for thy part here in this place, eating and drinking by the black hollow ship, but I will go forth, for a strong constraint is laid on me.
