ODYSSEY MAP · STOP 11/14
Where Is Thrinacia?
A herd not to be touched, a fleet becalmed, an oath broken
Tiresias and Circe both said the same thing: do not touch the cattle of the sun god Helios. Contrary winds pin the ship on the island for a month; provisions run out, hunger sets in. The moment Odysseus walks off to pray, Eurylochus talks the men round: the finest cattle are slaughtered. The meat bellows on the spits; the flayed hides crawl.
When they finally put to sea, Zeus’s thunderbolt shatters the ship. Everyone dies but Odysseus. That is the fate Homer tells — but it is also possible never to land on this island at all.
Where is it in the real world?
Thrinacia is identified with Trinacria — “the three-caped” — the ancient name of Sicily. The three-cornered island still carries the legacy in the three-legged triskelion on its flag.
What awaits you in the game?
The crossroads of fate in the game: heed the prophecy and sail past, and you enter the “fate-breaker” path; land, and you face the hardest trial in the triangle of oath, hunger and storm. Your crew’s lives hang, quite literally, on this choice.
Quick facts
- Position on the route
- 11 / 14
- Previous stop
- Scylla and Charybdis · 60 nautical miles · ≈ 9 sail days
- Next stop
- Calypso’s Island (Ogygia) · 150 nautical miles · ≈ 3 months under sail
- Modern location
- Sicily (ancient name: Trinacria), Italy
- Region
- The largest island of the central Mediterranean
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