Question

Circe describes for Odysseus what will happen when he encounters Scylla and Charybdis. He decides to withhold this information from his crew. What did Circe tell Odysseus, and was he justified in not telling his crew the entire story?

Answer 1

There was no way for Odysseus to get the men home without passing between the Scylla and Charybdis. Therefore, he is going to have to get his crew through that narrow passage. If he allows the ship to go down in the whirlpool, they all die. If he goes under Scylla, some will die but others will live.
What choice does Odysseus have? He has to take this course. If he had told the men...

Answer 2

Circe told Odysseus to pass first in Hades, before making his way to Itaca, and consult the shadow of the soothsayer Tiresias. Odysseus did not tell his men because the road to Hades was fraught with danger and Odysseus did not want his men to be discouraged by this.

Step-by-step explanation:

When they landed on the island of circe, part of Odysseus's crew was greeted with food and drink enchanted by a potion that turned them into pigs and ended up in the pigsty. One of them escaped and went to warn Odysseus, who was promptly heading for the castle to save them, when he met Hermes (protector of travelers), who offered him a plant that contained the antidote against the witch's spells and advised him to threaten her with firmness.

When Circe saw that her spell was no longer in effect, threatened by Odysseus's sword, she undid the spell and even hosted them all, even having a romance with Odysseus, where a son named Telegone was born.

Odysseus had lost Ithaca's direction, but still decided to leave. Circe advised him to go first to Hades and consult the shadow of the soothsayer Tiresias.

On the way the crew faced many dangers and challenges, but managed to escape thanks to the cunning and wisdom of Odysseus.