If you have watched or read the Odyssey then you are aware that – SPOILER (do you need spoiler warnings on a 2,700-2,800 year-old poem?) – all of Odysseus’s crew die, some in strange and horrible ways.
In this chart, I have tracked the decline in the crew over time, as well as the causes of death, until only one man is left.
The casualties include the most well known of deaths, such as the men who are eaten by the Cyclops Polyphemus: “He ripped them limb by limb to make his meal, then ate them like a lion on the mountains, devouring flesh, entrails, and marrow bones, and leaving nothing”.
