No one but Odysseus survives the journey back to Ithaca. All his men on his ship and all men on the other ships die during the voyage.
Eurylochus convinces the rest of the crew that slaughtering the cattle of Helios is preferable to continuing to starve. He argues that the gods will forgive them if they sacrifice some of the cattle to them. Zeus destroys their ship and leaves the men to drown; only Odysseus survives.
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Elpenor is an Ithacan, and a member of Odysseus' crew.
Elpenor was encountered by Odysseus in the underworld.
Odysseus' crew lost six men when passing Scylla, one man for each head of Scylla.
Eurylochus convinces the rest of the crew that slaughtering the cattle of Helios is preferable to continuing to starve. He argues that the gods will forgive them if they sacrifice some of the cattle to them. Zeus destroys their ship and leaves the men to drown; only Odysseus survives.
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Odysseus' crew did. They believed Odysseus was hiding treasure from the rest of the crew.
The last of Odysseus' crew drown after Zeus splinters the boat with lightning.
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.
Elpenor is an Ithacan, and a member of Odysseus' crew.
While Odysseus is lured into sleep by Cronus, the crew eat the cattle of Helios, even though Odysseus specifically said not too.
Odysseus's crew faced various challenges and dangers during their journey in The Odyssey, including encounters with monsters, temptations, and natural disasters. Many of his crew members were killed by these threats, leaving only Odysseus alive by the end of the epic.
Odysseus does not take part in the killing of the cattle of the sun, only his crew members do. Therefore, while his ship is destroyed and his crew killed, as prophecised he survives by hanging on to a tree branch to avoid the whirlpool.
Elpenor was encountered by Odysseus in the underworld.