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Circe warns Odysseus about the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis. He stops his men’s ears with wax and has himself tied to the mast so that he can hear the Sirens’ song.
Scylla snatches six men from the ship. They reach Thrinacia, where Odysseus warns the crew not to touch the cattle of Helios. The men disobey while he sleeps. Zeus sends a thunderbolt, the ship breaks, and all the crew drown. Odysseus clings to the mast and is carried back to Calypso.
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“Now after our ship had left the stream of the river Oceanus and had come to the wave of the broad sea, and the Aeaean isle, where is the dwelling of early Dawn and her dancing-lawns, and the risings of the sun, [5] there on our coming we beached our ship on the sands, and ourselves went forth upon the shore of the sea — Homer, Odyssey XII.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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