rachel, joseph, leo, ethan
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- THE LOTUS EATERS
- Eat the lotus and you'll feel never-ending happiness
- THE CYCLOPS
- You will not get through this cave, you are too weak and tiny
- THE LAND OF THE DEAD
- Mom.. is that you? Oh my god...
- In the Lotus Eaters, Odysseus’s men are found eating the Lotus flower which makes them lose their will to return home. Odysseus loses a few men who caved and ate the Lotus flower. Odysseus manages to move on after he dragged the men who ate the Lotus flower by force and tied them up to the ship. 
- THE SIRENS
- In the Cyclops section of the story, Odysseus battles with a Cyclops, Polyphemus, after getting trapped in a cave together. Because of Odysseus’s action, he ends up losing a big portion of the men he brought with him to the Cyclops’ Island. He successfully frees himself when he and his strongest men blind the Cyclops by stabbing him in the eye. 
- SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS
- Odysseus enters the Underworld, as instructed to by Circe. In the underworld, he is told to meet Tiresias, the prophet. He sacrifices ewe blood to attract the dead souls, and he sees his deceased crewmates, mother, and Tiresias. He leaves when Tiresias instructs him on how to get home. He loses no men. 
- CATTLE OF THE SUN GOD
- Odysseus meets the Sirens, as it was foretold. He loses no men from this adventure. He manages to move on when he instructs his crewmates to tie him to the mast and not to listen to anything he says while he is under the trance of the Siren’s singing. He cried and whaled for them to free him, but his crewmates didn’t listen and steer the boat away. 
- Sorry, no.
- *singing
- LET ME GO SO I CAN BE WITH THEM
- In Scylla and Charybdis, Odysseus meets Scylla, a six-headed monster, and Charybdis, a whirlpool. They are both on opposite ends of a rock. Because of their encounter, Odysseus loses 6 of his good men. Odysseus was able to survive Scylla and Charybdis because of the advice from Circe, which was to steer closer to Scylla. Circe said it was better to lose 6 good men rather than his whole crew, so Odysseus listened to Circe and was able to escape. 
- Im so sorry to have had to sacrifice you men.
- The 6 dead men 
- Odysseus discovered the cattle of the god Helios. Odysseus lets it be known that there will be consequences upon them if they eat the cattle. Although they were warned, his men still proceed to eat the cattle. Because of this, Helios calls upon Zeus and he throws lighting at their ship, destroying it. All his men died. He was knocked unconscious and washed up on an island he’s never seen before. 
- Oh Holy Zeus, please rid my men of their bad thoughts
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