Odysseus's crew
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
my comrades · my men · the crew · the men · the sailors of Ithaca
spoken of as
1 expressionsailors of Ithaca“Odysseus's crew”1 mention
Orations (Greek)
But surely we shall seem altogether ridiculous and antiquated for these words, in asserting that such understanding is nearer to the beasts and the trees than is inexperience and ignorance to us — when certain men, having become wiser than all wisdom, not by pouring wax into their ears, as they say the sailors of Ithaca did so as not to hear the song of the Sirens, but having interposed a kind of …
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Orations
Odysseus's crew, who blocked their ears against the Sirens, invoked as a point of contrast.
But surely we shall seem altogether ridiculous and antiquated for these words, in asserting that such understanding is nearer to the beasts and the trees than is inexperience and ignorance to us — when certain men, having become wiser than all wisdom, not by pouring wax into their ears, as they say the sailors of Ithaca did so as not to hear the song of the Sirens, but having interposed a kind of …
Odyssey
The body of sailors under Odysseus's command who undergo the trials of the Sirens, Scylla, and the Thrinacian cattle, ultimately perishing for breaking their oath.
As long as grain and wine held out the men did not touch the cattle when they were hungry;
"Then Zeus let fly with his thunderbolts, and the ship went round and round, and was filled with fire and brimstone as the lightning struck it.
the men, therefore drove in the best of them, and they all stood round them saying their prayers, and using young oak-shoots instead of barley-meal, for there was no barley left.