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	Laestrygonians: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Laestrygonians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Laestrygonians (or Laestrygones, Laistrygones, Laistrygonians) were a mythological tribe of gigantic cannibals encountered by Odysseus in the Odyssey.
		The land was ruled by Lamos and Antiphates.
		The city of the Laestrygonians was Telepylos, a rocky stronghold of Lamos.
	www.encyclopedian.com /la/Laestrygonians.html (328 words)

	Laestrygonians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Laestrygonians (or Laestrygones, Laistrygones, Laistrygonians,"Lestrygonians) were a mythological tribe of gigantic cannibals.
		In the Odyssey (book 10), Odysseus and his company, with a dozen ships, arives at "the rocky stronghold of Lamos: Telepylus, the city of the Laestrygonians.' Lamos is not mentioned again, perhaps being understood as the founder of the city.
		The other two men ran away, but Antiphates raised a hue-and-cry, so that they were pursued by thousands of Laestrygonians, cyclopes, not men.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laestrygonians (339 words)

	Laestrygonians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Laestrygonians (or Laestrygones, Laistrygones, Laistrygonians) were a mythological tribe of gigantic cannibals.
		In the Odyssey (book 9), Odysseus and his company, with a dozen ships, arives at "the rocky stronghold of Lamos: Telepylus, the city of the Laestrygonians.' Lamos is not mentioned again, perhaps being understood as the founder of the city.
		Later Greeks located the land of the Laestrygones in the plains of Leontini on the east coast of Sicily which were therefore called Laestrygonii Campi.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Laestrygonians (699 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Laestrygonians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Laestrygonians (or Laestrygones, Laistrygones, Laistrygonians) were a mythological tribe of gigantic cannibal (A person who eats human flesh) s.
		In the Odyssey (A long wandering and eventful journey) (book 9), Odysseus and his company, with a dozen ships, arives at "the rocky stronghold of Lamos: Telepylus, the city of the Laestrygonians.' Lamos is not mentioned again, perhaps being understood as the founder of the city.
		The other two men ran away, but Antiphates raised a hue-and-cry, so that they were pursued by thousands of Laestrygonians, cyclopes (Only the silky anteater), not men.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/laestrygonians.htm (330 words)

	Encyclopedia: Laestrygonians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Laestrygones or Laestrygonians were called the cannibal people living in the region of Mount Aetna in Sicily.
		By the time Odysseus arrived to the land of the Laestrygonians he had already lost quite a few of his men; for in the battle against the Ciconians over seventy soldiers were killed, and later half a dozen were devoured by the Cyclops Polyphemus 2.
		Odysseus then, seeing that hope was only in a hasty escape, cut the hawser of his ship, and having ordered the crew to dash in with the oars, came out to the open sea, leaving behind the cliffs and the massacre that agitated the otherwise calm waters.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Laestrygonians (641 words)

	Laestrygonians, Greek Mythology Link.
		It was in the seventh day that the fleet arrived to Telepylus in the land of the Laestrygonians, a cannibal people ruled by Antiphates 2.
		In this land nightfall and morning are so close to each other that shepherds bringing in their flocks at night are met by other shepherds driving out their flocks at dawn.
		Thence the Laestrygonians began pelting the fleet with huge rocks, and harpooning the men, whom they carried off to make their meals.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Laestrygonians.html (751 words)

	Learn more about Odyssey in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Then to Telepylos, a city of the cannibal Laestrygonians.
		However he also came to the conclusion that the sequence of adventures from Circe onwards derived from a separate voyage to those that ended with the Laestrygonians, possibly coming via the stories of the Argonauts.
		He placed many of the later adventures on the north west Greek coast, near to the river Acheron.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /o/od/odyssey.html (2066 words)

	Metro Pulse/Cover/Art Town
		In the old days, playwrights founded their own companies to produce their works, and each script was tediously copied by hand.
		Laestrygonians is one of the Pendragon plays and the title refers to a tidbit of Homer's Odyssey.
		Laestrygonians fit quite nicely into this category; the play does touch on some sensitive issues about sex.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2000/1041/t_cover3.html (2487 words)

	Stories told (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He had a grin on him that was almost like the grins of the Laestrygonians.
		He looked like-well, he had always been the ugliest of the crewmen, now he was nearly as ugly as the Laestrygonians themselves -- he looked like one of the giants, that same happy insane look in the eyes.
		Watch for their moves." But all the giant Laestrygonians were whooping with laughter.
	www.mulle-kybernetik.com /RAL/chantey.html (266 words)

	Book 9 & 10 - The Odyssey.
		The 3 men came across a strong girl drawing water outside of the town, the daughter of Antiphate, the Laestrygonians chief.
		The men asked her who the ruler of the country was, she pointed to the high roof of her father's house.
		They soon entered Antiphate's place where they were confronted by Antiphate's wife, she called her husband, who promptly made his murderous intentions clear, pouncing on one of the men to eat him for supper, the other two men managed to escape and make their way back to the ships.
	www.coursework.info /i/29777.html (562 words)

	The Laestrygonians
		The next adventure was with the barbarous tribe of Laestrygonians.
		As soon as the Laestrygonians found the ships completely in their power they attacked them, having huge stones which broke and overturned them, and with their spears dispatched the seamen as they struggled in the water.
		All the vessels with their crews were destroyed, except Ulysses' own ship which had remained outside, and finding no safety but in flight, he exhorted his men to ply their oars vigorously, and they escaped.
	www.rickwalton.com /authtale/bmyth091.htm (821 words)

	The Odyssey - Book Ten - Detailed Version
		A shore patrol was dispatched to scout the countryside.
		As the men scrambled to cast off, they were bombarded by boulders pelted from the heights.
		I'd had the presence of mind to cut away the hawser with my sword, and I urged my men to row for their lives.
	www.mythweb.com /odyssey/book10.html (880 words)

	Lamos of the Laestrygonians - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lamos of the Laestrygonians - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Lamos of the Laestrygonians contains research on
		Lamos of the Laestrygonians and Greek mythological people.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Lamos_of_the_Laestrygonians (99 words)

	8: Davy Byrne's
		From its first words, a catalogue of kinds of candy, to its last, this chapter of Ulysses invokes the episode in Book X of the Odyssey in which most of the Achaeans are slaughtered by the cannibalistic Laestrygonians.
		Boylan and his impending visit to Molly plague Bloom most after he decides to eat lunch because the references in the chapter to food, eating, and the rest are the vehicle for an analogy between the predatory ferocity of the ancient Laestrygonians and that of Bloom's anxieties.
		Finally, in Bloom's memory of an incident involving Malaga raisins for Molly and leftover codfish that explicitly occurred before Rudy birth, it suggests the connection between the Laestrygonian correspondence and the true principal subject of the chapter, which that correspondence illuminates.
	www.octc.kctcs.edu /crunyon/CE/Joyce/8_davy_byrnes.htm (2900 words)

	Giants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the Odyssey, the Laestrygonians were giants living in the city of Telepylus.
		Their leader was Antiphates, king of the Laestrygonians.
		Antiphates and his wife were of giant size, but their daughter wasn't so tall, that the men of Odysseus didn't suspect anything unusual until they met the girl's parents.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/giants.html (2387 words)

	Odyssey
		The Laestrygonians were giants, ruled by their king Antiphates.
		Thousands of Laestrygonians chased them to the harbour, surrounding the harbour, all around the cliff.
		The Laestrygonians hurled large rocks at the Ithacan fleet, destroying and sinking eleven ships that entered their harbour, killing and eating Odysseus' men.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/odyssey.html (5340 words)

	Duh^knees and her evil alter-ego
		The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes, angry Poseldon - do not fear them.
		The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes and the fierce Poseldon you will not meet, unless you carry them in your heart, unless your heart sets them in your path.
		Pray that your journey be long; that there may be many summer mornings when with what joy, what delight, you will enter harbours you have not seen before; and will stop at Phoenician trading-ports, acquire beautiful merchandise, mother-of-pearl and coral, sensuous perfumes of all kinds - as many sensuous perfumes as you can.
	duh-knees.diaryland.com /011018_92.html (334 words)

	ActionQuest -- odysseus -- odysseus home
		He lost all his ships as the Laestrygonians hurled boulders from atop the cliffs onto his boats while they lay at rest in a perfect harbor.
		The Laestrygonians are far more hospitable now, but Calypso beckons, so we take halyard and tiller in hand to answer her call.
		We’ll strike the Moors head (the flag of Corsica) and replace it with the green, red and white of Italy as we sail out of the deceptively foreboding port entrance into the Straits of Bonifacio.
	www.actionquest.com /mediterranean.php (1109 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Odyssey by Homer
		He snatched up one of them, and began to make his dinner off him then and there, whereon the other two ran back to the ships as fast as ever they could.
		We are certainly on an island, for I went as high as I could this morning, and saw the sea reaching all round it to the horizon; it lies low, but towards the middle I saw smoke rising from out of a thick forest of trees.'
		They wept bitterly in their dismay, but there was nothing to be got by crying, so I divided them into two companies and set a captain over each; I gave one company to Eurylochus, while I took command of the other myself.
	classics.mit.edu /Homer/odyssey.10.x.html (4456 words)

	Homer - The Odyssey - Page 36
		Now when they had gone ashore, they went along a level road whereby wains were wont to draw down wood from the high hills to the town.
		And without the town they fell in with a damsel drawing water, the noble daughter of Laestrygonian Antiphates.
		She had come down to the clear-flowing spring Artacia, for thence it was custom to draw water to the town.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu02/odyssey_page_36.htm (667 words)

	The Laestrygones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We gloomily traveled for six days until we came to Telepylus, Lamus's stronghold in the Laestrygonian land.
		We walked to land and met up with a strong beautiful girl, drawing water from outside the town.
		She was the daughter of Antiphates, the Laestrygonian chief.
	www.auburn.edu /~jfdrake/teachers/gainey/homer/laestrygones.html (160 words)

	The Odyssey - Study Guide
		IMPORTANT CHARACTERS: Odysseus, Aeolus, King of Aeolia and master of the winds, Antiphates, King of the Laestrygonians, Eurylochus, Circe, Hermes, and Elpenor.
		Odysseus and his crew are treated hospitably by Aeolus, King of Aeolia, who sends off the Ithacans with a gift of wind in a bag which is to ensure a swift voyage.
		They then make a disastrous journey to the land of the Laestrygonians, a race of giants who destroy all of Odysseus' ships but his which he had had cautiously anchored outside the small harbor.
	www.leasttern.com /HighSchool/odyssey/SG10.html (1081 words)

	Odysseus Homework Page
		In this way the careless captain and his greedy crew were driven back to the Aeolian Islands where Odysseus, in the course of an embarrassing interview with Aeolus, was denied the fair wind he asked for being immediately expelled from the island.
		So instead Odysseus came to the land of the Laestrygonians, who were cannibals and there he lost all the ships with their crews except his own.
		In this strange land nightfall and morning are so close to each other that shepherds bringing in their flocks at night are met by other shepherds driving out their flocks at dawn.
	thanasis.com /ody01.htm (3591 words)

	odyssey walkthrough
		But don't accept the deal to go to the laestrygonians' camp, they just lied to u.
		Your main bussines here is to get inside in to the Laestrygonian's place without being noticed by the Laestrygonians.
		The Laestrygonians will follow u and hitted by the bag.
	www.gameboomers.com /wtcheats/pcOo/odyssey.html (3624 words)

	Odyssey wrong answer 51 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is what the other 11 ships do: the Laestrygonians, more like giants than men, pelted them with massive rocks and massacred them in the cove, like fishermen harpooning tunnies.
		Your own ship, as it is outside the harbour, is safe - but two of your three explorers are lost.
		The Classics Pages are written and designed by Andrew Wilson.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/odyssey/od51.htm (60 words)

	BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY THE AGE OF FABLE : THE LAESTRYGONIANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY THE AGE OF FABLE : THE LAESTRYGONIANS
		Their next adventure was with the barbarous tribe of Laestrygonians.
		As soon as the Laestrygonians found the ships completely in their power they attacked them, heaving huge stones which broke and overturned them, and with their spears despatched the seamen as they struggled in the water.
	www.annourbis.com /AgeofFable/thgff10_the_laestrygonians.html (781 words)

	The Odyssey – Part I –“Aeolus,” “The Laestrygonians,” “Circe,” “The Land of the Dead,” and “The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Odyssey – Part I –“Aeolus,” “The Laestrygonians,” “Circe,” “The Land of the Dead,” and “The Sirens”
		What is the name of the island where Odysseus and his men next land?
		Locate the metaphor for the harbor where the Sirens live.
	www.nhvweb.net /nhhs/specialed/MStahl/lothian/Odyssey-pg%20617-620.htm (152 words)

	lamos of the laestrygonians
		Definition of Lamos of the Laestrygonians - wordIQ Dictionary andamp;...
		Definition of Laestrygonians - wordIQ Dictionary andamp; Encyclopedia
		Lamos of the Laestrygonians - ruv.net Encylopedia Information Portal
	www.fact-library.com /lamos_of_the_laestrygonians.html (98 words)

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