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Laestrygonians in the Odyssey Laestrygonians in the odyssey Continue '... we have come to the high citadel of Lamus, even to Telepilus Laestraigonia, where the shepherd calls the shepherd when he leads in his flock, and other answers as he leads him forward. Odyssey 10.81ff. (online text: Eng., Grk.) Here and below the quotes are selective; Follow the links for the full excerpts Boreads Haunting Harpies About the steep mount of Fawn and the rugged Etne on the island of Ortigia and people sprang from Lastrationon, who was the son of the widely ruling Poseidon. (online text: Eng. »fr. 40a on this site) Thucydides, The history of the Peloponnese War 6.2.1 It (Sicily) was inhabited in the old time, thus, and it was the peoples who held it: The oldest inhabitants in its part are said to have been cyclops and laestrigones, from which the reserves and from where they came from or where they were removed I can not say anything . (online text: Eng., Grk.) Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautics 4.964ff. ... the heroes caught the wind and sped forward; and quickly they passed mid Trinasia, where kin Helios fed. (online text: Eng., Grk.) Mullus crates, fr. 50 Broggiato Crates Mallus thought that the Lystragons lived in the north, based on the Gomorese reference to the long days in Telepylus. Horace, Oda 3.16.34ff., 3.17.1ff. 3.16: While it is true, Calabrian bees do not bring me/their honey, and no laestrygonian wine-jar/mellows for me... Latin: nec Laestrygonia Bacchus in amphora / languescit mihi (online text: Eng., Lat.) 3.17: Aelius, the ancient name of Lamus..../No doubt you trace your line from it,/Who stretch'd his power o'er Formiae (online text: Eng., Lat.) Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.13.2 When you come to Estrigony's distant gate - I mean Formiae - what a loud noise! what evil souls! what an unpopularity for our friend Magnus! (online text: Eng., Lat.) Ovid, Metamorphosis 14.233-234, Fasti 4.69 Met.: (Makarei, the surviving companion of the Odyssey, found in Cumae): From there, he said, we swam until we reached the ancient city of Lamus, Laestrygon. (online text: Eng. Lat.) Fasti: The Neritian chief (Odysseus) also came: witness Laestrygones and the shore, which still bears the name Circe. (online text: Eng., Lat.) Strabo, Geography 1.2.9 Homer tells us that King Aolus ruled the Lipari Islands, that around Mount Etna and Leontini lived Cyclope, and some lestrions are inhospitable to strangers. (online text: Eng., Grk.) Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3.9, 3.14 3.9: Next is the place of the Grotto, Lake Fantanus, the port of Kayeta, and then the city of Formiae, formerly called Hormiae, the ancient site of Laestrygones, it must. (online text: Eng., Lat.) 3.14: Then we adjoin the three cliffs of Cyclops, the port of Ulysses, the colony of Katina and the rivers and Terias (quote on Polyphemus's page); while the more inland lie the Lestrigon plains. (online text: Eng., Lat.) Silius Italicus, Punica 7.410 Carthage ships have been seen plowing their sea beaks on the shores of Kayet and the Bay of Laestrygonians. (online text: Eng., Lat.) The Dictys, The Chronicle of the Trojan War 6.5 Then they went to the island of Sicily, where the brothers Cyclops and Laestrygon treated them with every humiliation and where polyphes and antifats, who were sons of the first, killed many of them. (online text: Eng. , Lat.) This article needs additional quotes to verify. Please help improve this article by adding quotes to reliable sources. Non-sources of materials can be challenged and removed. Find sources: Laestrygonians - News newspaper book scientist JSTOR (January 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article is about the creatures of Greek mythology. For an episode in the novel by James Joyce Ulysses, see Ulysses (novel) For the kind of spiders, see Laestrygones (Spider). The fourth panel of the so-called Odyssey Wall Painting Landscapes from the Vatican Museums in Rome, 60-40 BC Laestigona /ˌlɛstrɪˈɡoʊniənz/ or Laestrygones /lɛˈstrɪɡəˌniːz/ (Greek: Λαιστρυγόνες) were a tribe of giant-humans from ancient Greek mythology. They are said to have originated from Lastrion, Poseidon's son. According to The Fukididam (6.2.1.) and Polybia (1.2.9) Laestrygones inhabited southeastern Sicily. The name is akin to the name Lestricini, a branch of the Corsican people on the northeastern coast of Sardinia (now Gallura). The mythology of Odysseus, the protagonist of Homer's Odyssey, visited them during his journey home to Ithaca. The giants ate many of the odyssey's men and destroyed eleven of its twelve ships by launching stones from high cliffs. The Odyssey ship was not destroyed because it was hidden in a bay near the shore. Everyone on the Odyssey ship survived the incident. Its soldiers, with a dozen ships, arrive at the rocky fortress of Lamos: Telepilus, the city of Laestrygonians. Lamos is no longer mentioned, perhaps it is understood as the founder of the city or the name of the island on which the city is located. In this country, a person who could do without sleep could receive double wages; once as a cattle shepherd and the other as a shepherd as they worked at night, as they did during the day. The ships entered the harbor, surrounded by steep cliffs, with one entrance between the two capes. The captains took their ships inside and made them quickly close together, where it was dead quietly. Odysseus kept his ship outside the harbor, moored to the rock. He climbed a high rock to give exploration, but could not see anything but smoke rising from the ground. He sent his company and the attendant to investigate the residents. The men went down the road and eventually met a young woman on the way to the Fountain of Artakia to fetch water, who said she was the daughter of Antifat or Antifat, the king, and directed them to his house. However, when they got there, they found a giant woman, the wife of antifats, who quickly called her, who immediately left the gathering of people and on arrival grabbed one of the men and killed him on the spot, presumably then eat him (as the Odyssey says, that he only met the men with the intention of eating them). Two other men, Eurylochus and Polites, ran away, but antifats raised a protest, so they persecuted thousands of laestrygonians who are either giants or very big men and women. They threw huge rocks from rocks, smashing ships, and spearing people like fish. Odysseus escaped with his ship because he was not trapped in the harbor; the rest of his company was lost. The surviving crew set off near Aeaea, Circe Island. According to historian Angelo Paratico, the estrions were the result of a legend that arose at the sight of Greek sailors of giants Monet Pram, recently excavated in Sardinia. Later, the Greeks believed that the estrions, like the cyclops, once inhabited Sicily. The Gallery Illustration by John Flaxman for Odyssey (1810) Notes - Also Lestrygonians or Lestrygones and Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 40a, as quoted in Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1358 fr. 2 - Homer translated by Samuel Butler. Odyssey in the Gutenberg Project. Book H. - John Cecess. Chiliades, 10.60 line 902 - mayor of Adrienne, first fossil hunters, p. 201, citing Thucydides. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnese War, book 6, section 2. Extracted from the Odysseus and his men came across the Lasrigon town of Telepilus. The Lasrigons were a race of powerful cannibal giants ruled by their king, the Antifats. Odysseus sent several scouts to see which nations lived there. Antifats and his unnamed queen forced these scouts to dine. As soon as Odysseus and his crew see this, they run back to their ships, but the Lasrigons throw stones and boulders at them and sink all the boats except the Odyssey boat. Hello again, ladies and gentlemen, it's nice to see you this morning. I hope you had a good night's sleep after our stay in Ikaria. This is the second day of our trip and we are getting deeper into the Greek islands. Does anyone know what mythical monsters Odysseus and his people face next? No, I'll give you a hint; they are similar to the cyclops of the last story. And you to meet Odysseus with the Estrationones? In fact, I was referring to the story of Odysseus and Estrigony. The Laestigons were a race of giants who lived on the island of Andros. We will be sailing to telepylus harbour, where sheer cliffs will provide excellent photo opportunities. The island is rumored to be deserted, but I suggest you keep an eye on the rocks. We do not want to live the same fate as many people of Odysseus. With the beginning of this story Odysseus and his people have been swimming for almost a week. They are relieved when they catch on the distant shore of Andros. After another twenty minutes or so paddling they finally reach the shore. Odysseus at first a little timid, because their ships moored in a very narrow and steep harbor. For this reason he, and he alone, decides to leave his ship outside the harbor; a decision that would save him from a certain death later in history. After leaving the ships, Odysseus sends three people to the nearby town of Lamus to find out what creatures lived on the island. After walking for a while, the three men came across the girl, scooping water from the creek. They asked her who the people who lived on this earth were and who the ruler was.
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