Odyssey: A Daily Odyssey through Homer’s The Odyssey
Sep 3, 2026 · 9 min · 5 segments
They survive the monsters — only to face temptation disguised as rest. In *The Odyssey*, Book 12, Odysseus and his remaining crew escape Scylla and Charybdis and soon sight the island of Helios…
Landon SolanoHost
Then, while as yet I was in my black ship upon the deep, I heard the lowing of the cattle being stalled, and the bleeding of the sheep, and on my mind there fell the saying of the blind seer, Thebian Tiresias, and Circe of Ia.
who charged me very straitly to shun the Isle of Helios, the gladner of the world.
Hear my words, men, albeit in evil plight, that I may declare unto you the oracles of Tiresias and Circe of Aia, who very straitly charged me to shun the Isle of Helios, the gladner of the world.
So spake I, and their heart was broken within them, and Eurylochus straightway answered me sadly, saying, Hardy art thou, Odysseus, of mighty beyond measure, and thy limbs are never weary.
Verily thou art fashioned of all iron, that sufferest not thy fellows, for done with toil and drowsiness to set foot on shore, where we might presently prepare us a good supper in the sea-girt island.
But even as we are, thou biddest us there blindly through the sudden night and from the isle go wandering on the misty deep.
How could a man escape from utter doom if there chanced to come a sudden blast of the south wind or of the boisterous west, which mainly wreck ships beyond the will of the gods, the lords of all? How be it for this present? Let us yield to the black night and we will make ready our supper abiding by the swift ship.
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Then, while as yet I was in my black ship upon the deep, I heard the lowing of the cattle being stalled, and the bleeding of the sheep, and on my mind there fell the saying of the blind seer, Thebian Tiresias, and Circe of Ia.
who charged me very straitly to shun the Isle of Helios, the gladner of the world.
Hear my words, men, albeit in evil plight, that I may declare unto you the oracles of Tiresias and Circe of Aia, who very straitly charged me to shun the Isle of Helios, the gladner of the world.
So spake I, and their heart was broken within them, and Eurylochus straightway answered me sadly, saying, Hardy art thou, Odysseus, of mighty beyond measure, and thy limbs are never weary.
Verily thou art fashioned of all iron, that sufferest not thy fellows, for done with toil and drowsiness to set foot on shore, where we might presently prepare us a good supper in the sea-girt island.
But even as we are, thou biddest us there blindly through the sudden night and from the isle go wandering on the misty deep.
How could a man escape from utter doom if there chanced to come a sudden blast of the south wind or of the boisterous west, which mainly wreck ships beyond the will of the gods, the lords of all? How be it for this present? Let us yield to the black night and we will make ready our supper abiding by the swift ship.
