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Aeolus receives Odysseus and gives him a bag containing all the winds except the one that will carry him home. Within sight of Ithaca, the crew opens the bag, and the ship is blown back.
The Laestrygonians destroy eleven of the twelve ships. Odysseus and his remaining crew reach Circe’s island. She turns the men into pigs, but Hermes gives Odysseus the herb moly, which protects him. He forces Circe to restore his men and stays with her for a year.
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“Then to the Aeolian isle we came, where dwelt Aeolus, son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods, in a floating island, and all around it is a wall of unbreakable bronze, and the cliff runs up sheer. — Homer, Odyssey X.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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