Odysseus and his men leave the island of the Cyclopes and go to the home of Aeolus, the ruler of winds. Upon Odysseus’ visit Aeolus gives him a ox-skin pouch that contains westerly winds in it that well bring him back to Ithaca. After about 10 days they can literally see Ithaca ahead of them, but while they are that close to Ithaca Odysseus decides to fall asleep. While Odysseus is asleep his crew members open the ox-skin pouch with the winds from Aeolus because they thought that he actually gave him gold or riches. When they open the pouch all of the wind comes out so now they have no wind to get back to Ithaca and now they are further away from Ithaca. When Odysseus gets back to Aeolus he asks for more wind but Aeolus doesn’t give him any
