Zeus strikes their ship with a lightning bolt because Helios threatened to pull the sun to the underworld unless Odysseus and his men atone for their crime.
Cattle of the Sun God
They ate the sun god's cattle
Cattle of the Sun God
Odysseus and his men ended up in Hades after a series of misadventures during their journey home from the Trojan War. After leaving the island of Thrinacia, where they angered the sun god Helios by eating his sacred cattle, Zeus punished them by destroying their ship with a storm. Most of Odysseus's crew drowned, while he was cast ashore on Ogygia, eventually leading him to visit the Underworld to seek guidance from the prophet Tiresias.
Odysseus hurt the Cyclopes, son of Posiedon. Polyphemus cursed Odysseus upon hisexit from the island. Posiedon then proceeded to punish Odysseus for his hurting of his son.
They die because they did not listen to Odysseus when he told them to not eat the sun god's cattle. They however did not listen to him and some of the cows, so the sun god punished them and killed them.
Zeus did not throw a thunderbolt at Odysseus. In the Odyssey, Zeus actually sends a storm to disrupt Odysseus' journey home as punishment for his men eating the cattle of the sun god Helios. Odysseus himself avoids direct retribution from Zeus.
Zeus destroys their ship because the sun god asked Zeus to punish Odysseus man for eating his sacred cattle and Zeus destroys their ship with a thunder bolt and only Odysseus survived
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They ate the sun god's cattle
Zeus destroys their ship because the sun god asked Zeus to punish Odysseus man for eating his sacred cattle and Zeus destroys their ship with a thunder bolt and only Odysseus survived
To not kill any cattle
Odysseus is sleeping when the cattle are slaughtered.
In Greek mythology, the men killed on the Island of the Sun were the crew of Odysseus' ship. They disobeyed his orders not to harm the sacred cattle of the sun god, Helios, and were punished by being struck down by Zeus with a thunderbolt.
I guess you mean what is the cattle of the sun IN the Odyssey. It was the cattle of the sun god. It was cattle sacred to Helios, the sun god. Odysseus's' sailors hinted down this cattle while they were stranded on an island. Helios demanded that Zeus punish the men for the sacrilege. They were shipwrecked. Everyone died except for Odysseus,
Odysseus exhaustion is demonstrated by his failure to wake up and prevent his men from slaughtering the sun god cattle. It was a squall that forced them to land were the cattle were.