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Thrinacia - the Sun God's Island
This is it: you wanted to sail past Thrinacia, but Eurylochus protested, and you were outvoted. Teiresias and Circe both told you that if your men ate the cattle and fat sheep of the Sun-god on the Island of Thrinacia you would not return to Ithaca, or would return late, in wretched plight, in a foreign ship, unrecognised, to find trouble awaiting you. You tell the men you will stay one day only - and they must not harm the cattle. But you are kept for a month by south winds. Eurylochus persuades the men it would be better to take their chances than sit here and starve: while you are asleep they start the slaughter. You awake to the smell of roasting meat …For six days they eat the cattle - on the seventh the wind changes and you put out to sea. Hyperion has already asked Zeus to punish the culprits - or he'll go and shine in Hades. There is an almighty storm, the ship is wrecked and all your men drown. You alone, clinging to some wreckage are carried back to Charybdis. This time the whirlpool gets your raft while you cling to the fig-tree: eventually it is vomited up again. After nine days of drifting you reach land.