The simplifying skills I developed in my earlier Jane Austen exercise are proving very useful here, and will do when I come to condensing the whole Odyssey as I plan to eventually.
In Book 10 Odysseus' companions betray him by opening a bag of winds which propels them to a land of cannibal giants. They escape after some of them are eaten and split up to explore the new island, but half are turned into swine and Odysseus has to sleep with a sorceress to get them turned back. She then helps him travel to the underworld.
In Book 12 Odysseus is back from Hades so they leave the island, avoiding sea monsters. They reach a new place and the men vow not to eat the cows but a storm traps them there so they eat some. Unfortunately he cows belong to the gods and Zeus sends a storm which kills all of them except our hero, who manages to avoid the monsters a 2nd time and wash up on a beach.
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