Sailed from Troy on his way home after a raid on Ismarus,
Odysseus' crew members are soldiers he fought with at the Siege of Troy.
odysseus crew perishes
By Putting Wax In Their Ears.
putting wax in their ears
Those of Odysseus' crew who survived Troy all died on the voyage back to Ithaca.
Right after they left Troy, Odysseus and his crew raided the capital of the Kikones tribe
he made his crew put wax earplugs in their ears. he himself wanted to hear the sirens beautiful music, so he asked his crew to tie him to the mast, the foundation of a sail. Odysseus's crew ties Odysseus very tightly to the mast, and disarmed him. When the were going past the sirens, Odysseus was screaming and yelling at his crew to let him go to the sirens. The crew obviously did not hear him because they had the wax ear plugs. That is how Odysseus saved his crew from the sirens.
All the crew except Odysseus fill their ears with wax, and Odysseus is tied to the mast so he can't try to steer the ship or jump overboard.
Both of them threaten to kill both Odysseus and his crew. However, there is no way past except to sail past at least one of them. Charybdis is the bigger danger, as it threatens to destroy the entire ship.
After Odysseus' triumph at the battle of Troy, on his way home to Ithaca, Poseidon punished Odysseus for his cruel selfishness by banishing him on the island of the Cicones where him and his crew slaughtered many men and raped the women there.
He is trying to sail from Troy (west coast of Turkey) to his home on the island of Ithaca, off the west coast of Greece.
Eurylochus was part of Odysseus' returning crew after the destruction of Troy. He convinced the crew to eat some of Helius' sacred cattle; this caused a lot of problems.