How many people have to tell you not to eat the Cattle of the Sun? We’ll find out in Book 12 of The Odyssey.
Discussion Prompts
- What would you do if you were Eurylokhos and the rest of Odysseus’s men? Starve? Or eat Helios’s cattle?
- Do you trust Odysseus? Why or why not?
- Why is there more glory in death at sea than death by starvation?
- AP Credit: What might the monsters Skylla and Kharybdis represent?
Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization 