【正文】 he should return home secretly, without warning his wife. Odysseus talked with other shadows, including Achilles（阿基里斯） who ruled that part of the Underworld, and the hero, Ajax the Greater, who was still angry and refused to talk to him. He saw Tantalus（坦塔羅斯） , tortured by food and drink always just out of reach, and Sisyphus（科林斯王） , perpetually pushing a boulder up a hill. After the sight of so many dead became unbearable to Odysseus, he fled to his ship and he and his men sailed out of the Underworld. The Trojan War: The Odyssey ? The wandering on the Sea Returning to Circe’s（賽斯） island, Circe gave further instructions to Odysseus about the Sirens（賽壬） , and Scylla（斯庫拉） and Charybdis（卡律布狄斯） . After burying Elphenor’s body properly, Odysseus and his men set sail once more. The Trojan War Saga: The Odyssey ? The Wandering on the Sea The first encounter they came to was the island of the Sirens（賽壬） . Here beautiful nymphs（寧芙） with the body of halfbird and halfwoman attracted seamen with their dazzling songs and lured them onto the reefs surrounding their island, where the ships were wrecked（失事的船） . Odysseus wisely plugged his men’s ears with wax so they could not hear the enchanting songs. However, he had himself tied up to the mast so he could listen to the dongs. When the voices became audible he unsuccessfully tried to free himself, but the ship sailed past the island unharmed. ? Odysseus and the Sirens ?奧德修斯和賽壬 The Trojan War Saga: The Odyssey ? The Wandering on the Sea Next, the men must sail between Scylla（斯庫拉） and Charybdis（卡律布狄斯） . Scylla was a ferocious（殘忍的） sixheaded monster who sat upon a cliff and devoured seamen passing by. Across the narrow straight was Charybdis（卡律布狄斯） , a fierce whirlpool（漩渦） . To pass between both unharmed was impossible. Odysseus and his men safely steered past Charybdis, but when they came to Scylla, the monster snatched six men from the ship. ? Odysseus and Scylla ?奧德修斯和斯庫拉 The Trojan War Saga: The Odyssey ? The Wandering on the Sea The crew passed by the dangers and reached the island of Helius（赫利烏斯，太陽神） , the SunTitan. Odysseus warned them not to kill and eat the cattle of the sun god Helius. Though they were stocked with plenty of supply from Circe’s island, after a month or more of bad weather, their food was gone. The Trojan War Saga: The Odyssey ? The Wandering on the Sea When Odysseus went to pray to gods for break in weather, his crew killed some of the cattle and ate them. Helius（赫利烏斯） appealed（呼吁） to Zeus that Odysseus’ men who ate his cattle must be punished. Zeus gave him a positive response. Returning to the ship, Odysseus discovered what his crew had done and reproached them. Soon the gods sent portents that the flayed hide crawled along the ground, and the roasted meat began to bellow, but these men still feasted for six days, for they would rather drown in the sea than starve to death. The Trojan War Saga: The Odyssey ? The Wandering on the Sea The next day, the weather calmed and favorable wind blew. They immediately departed from the island. However, a storm sent the crew between Scylla and the whirlpool of Charybdis（卡律布狄斯） , and only Odysseus survived. He drifted（偶然進入） in the sea for several days until he arrived at the island of Calypso（卡呂普索） . The Trojan War Saga: The Odyssey ? The Return and Reunion Odysseus ends his story here. The next day the generous Phaeacians（費阿克斯人） give Odysseus many valuable gifts and then transport him to one of their ships. Athena es to him in the form of a shepherd（牧師） and informs him he is to Ithaca（伊薩卡島） . Odysseus makes up a story about how he came to Ithaca. Athena goodnaturedly tells him she knows he is lying, and then reveals her identity. She disguises him as a beggar so he can learn the situation on the island and make his plans without being recognized. The Trojan War Saga: The Odyssey ? The Return and Reunion Odysseus then meets a swineherd Eumaeus（歐邁俄斯） . Eumaeus weles him and treats him kindly despite his look of an old, dirty beggar. Shortly afterward Telemachus（忒勒馬科斯） arrives from Sparta（斯巴達） and, foretold of an ambush set up by the suitors, he also goes to the swineherd’s hut. There, while Eumaeus quietly goes to inform the queen of her son’s return, Athena（雅典娜） makes Odysseus youthful and attractive again and instructs him to reveal his identity to his son. The father and son then begin their plan on how to revenge the suitors, and Odysseus warns his son not to let anyone, even Eumaeus or Penelope, know about his identity, as a test of loyalty. Odysseus and Telemachus 奧德修斯和忒勒馬科斯 The Trojan War Saga: The Odyssey ? The Return and Reunion Following Odysseus’ idea, the next day Telemachus（忒勒馬科斯） returns to the palace, telling Penelope what he has heard of his father, but not telling her Odysseus is back, and Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, joins him later with Eumaeus（歐邁爾斯） . On his way to the palace, Odysseus is insulted（侮辱） by an unfaithful servant of his. His hot temper is aroused, but Odysseus controls himself as he has a more important role to play. The Trojan War Saga: The Odyssey ? The Return and Reunion At the gateway, Odysseus’ faithful hound Argus（阿古斯） recognizes him before the old dog dies at his master’s feet. Odysseus enters after Eumaeus（歐邁俄斯） to beg amongst the suitors. They gave him bread, but Antinous（安提諾烏斯） , one of the most insolent（傲慢無禮的） suitors, soon begins to insult Odysseus and hits him with a footstool（腳蹬） . This makes even the other suitors nervous, for sometimes the gods disgu