<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Helios, also known as the sun god, is said to have had seven herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head . In the Odyssey, Homer describes these immortal cattle as handsome (ἄριστος), wide - browed, fat (εúρυμέτωπος) and curved - horned (ὀρθόκραιρος). The cattle were guarded by Helios' daughters, Phaëthusa and Lampetië, and it was known by all that any harm to any single animal was sure to bring down the wrath of the god . </P> <P> Tiresias and Circe both warn Odysseus to shun the isle of Helios . When Eurylochus begs to be allowed to land to prepare supper, Odysseus grudgingly agrees on condition that the crew swear that if they come upon a herd of cattle or a great flock of sheep, no one will kill any of them . They are held on the isle for a month by an unfavorable storm sent by Poseidon . </P> <P> When Odysseus goes up the island to pray to the gods and ask for help, Eurylochus convinces the crew to drive off the best of the cattle of Helios and sacrifice them to the gods: "if he be somewhat wroth for his cattle with straight horns, and is fain to wreck our ship, and the other gods follow his desire, rather with one gulp at the wave would I cast my life away, than be slowly straitened to death in a desert isle ." When he returns to the ship, Odysseus rebukes his companions for disobeying his orders . But it is too late, the cattle are dead and gone . </P>

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