Odysseus returns to Aeaea, where he spends a single night with Circe. She tells him about the obstacles he will face on his journey, and how to get through them. She shows him how to prepare and what he will need.
They approach an island filled with Sirens. Odysseus remembers the instructions Circe gave him, and she told him to plug all the crew's ears with beeswax. Odysseus decided that he wanted to be tied at the sail post with his ears-unplugged so he could hear the sirens voice.
The sirens sing their seductive song. Odysseus begs his men to let him go, but they only tie the knots tighter. They eventually sail out of reach, so they cannot hear the sirens voice.
Once they sailed past the Sirens's island, Odysseus and his crew must encounter the channel between Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla is a six-headed monster who eats a person for each head. As Circe told him, he sails very closely towards the cliff, but Scylla still eats six of Odysseus men.
The crew next encounters Thracian, the island of the sun. He wants to avoid the island entirely, but Eurylochus says that Odysseus and his crew should go rest there. While there, a storm beaches them for a month, they survive off of some food from the ship. When the food they had runs out Erylochus and some of the crew slaughter the cattle of the sun. When the sun finds that they killed his sheep he got angry, and he prays that Zeus will kick up another storm.
As soon as the set sail Zeus kicks up a storm. The storm destroys the ship and kills every single one of Odysseus's crew mates. The only one left who survived was Odysseus. After he floated on pieces of the ship he finally reached the island of Ogygia.