Aeolus gives Odysseus a bag containing all of the winds, and he stirs up a westerly wind to guide Odysseus and his crew home.
Odysseus’s crew, who thought that Aeolus secretly gave Odysseus a fortune in gold and silver, tore the bag open. The winds escaped and conjured up a storm that brought Odysseus and his men back to Aeolia
This time, however, Aeolus refuses to help them, certain that the gods hate Odysseus and wish to do him harm.
From there, Odysseus and his men travel to Aeaea, home of the beautiful witch-goddess Circe. Circe drugs a band of Odysseus’s men and turns them into pigs
When Odysseus goes to rescue them, Hermes approaches him in the form of a young man. He tells Odysseus to eat an herb called moly to protect himself from Circe’s drug and then lunge at her when she tries to strike him with her sword.
Odysseus follows Hermes’ instructions, overpowering Circe and forcing her to change his men back to their human forms. Odysseus soon becomes Circe’s lover, and he and his men live with her in luxury for a year.