mapa historia

5.Circe

7.Scylla and Charybdis

6.Sirens

8.Calypso

9.Phaeacia

4.Laestrygonians

3. Cyclopes

1. Cicones

2.Lotus-eaters

Scylla and Charybdis are two sea monsters from Greek mythology located on opposite banks of a narrow water channel, so close that sailors trying to avoid Charybdis would end up passing very close to Scylla and vice versa.Odysseus managed to escape, risking Scylla at the cost of part of his crew rather than losing the entire ship to Charybdis.

SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS

The tribe of the Cicones lived in the town of Thrace, between the Axius and the Hebro rivers, which bordered the territory of the Petian Thracians. Ulysses, upon his return from Troy devastated the people of Thrace to punish them for the aid they brougth to Priam. His women tore apart Orpheus who had despised them.

CICONES

In Greek mythology, the lotus eaters were the people first named in the Odissey. During the return from the Trojan War, the ships of Odysseus and his men were diverted by the north wind and currents which carried them past the Cape of Malea and Cythera. From there, after sailing for nine days, they arrived on the tenth day to the land of the lotus eaters.Flowers and fruits were the main food of the island and were a narcotic, causing the inhabitants to sleep in peaceful apathy. Odysseus decided to got the crew back to the ships and continue to Ithaca.

LOTUS-EATERS

In greek mythology the Laestrygonians were anthropophagous giant people who live in Lestrygonia, located in the east part of Sicily or in the coast of Sardinia.

LAESTRYGONIANS

Odysseus has to cross on his travel through an island where the sirens live. Circe warned him about the sirens songs which were very dangerous. The sirens were beautiful women of the sea who sing songs that hypnotize men causing them to crash thier ships against the rocks.Odysseus decide to cover the ears of his men with bee wax in ordere to not listen to the siren´s songs.

SIRENS

According to Homer's Odyssey, he detained Odysseus for seven years. Calypso promised Odysseus immortality if he stayed with her, but Odysseus preferred to return home.

CALYPSO

In on of his travels, Odyseeus finds an island which belongs to Circe, an inmortal god. He wants to stop Odysseus and decides to turns some Odysseus´men into pigs and invited to stay in his island to feed them. Odysseus wastes his time on the island not returning to Ithaca until his men remind him his mission and he decided to abandom the island.

CIRCE

Odysseus is shipwrecked on a new island, Scheria, and is found by Nausicaa who takes him to her father, King Alcinous. He will pick you up, hear your story and help you return to your homeland by putting a boat with its entire crew at your disposal.

PHAEACIA

The Cyclopes were members of a race of giants with a single eye. Three types can be differenciated: Three cycloppes which made the lightning bolt to Zeus; Others that were wild and uncivilized or another group of seven cyclopes who built the walls of Tyrins an dthe caverns near Nafplion. There is another theoy in which the cyclopes could have been a guild of metal forgers in the bronze age and the light from the sun could be the source of its energy.

CYCLOPES