North Wind

South-facing hill near Eumaios house

He went off to sleep with the white-tusked pigs beneath a hollow rock, a shelter against North Wind.

Odyssey Book 14 line 524-525 Barry B Powell
Odyssey Book 14 line 5-25 A.T. Murray

As we learned previously the pig sties don't appear to be near the hut, but they're beneath a hollow rock, which has to be facing south if it's any use as a shelter from a northern wind. If we want to find the pig sties, therefore, we need to find a south-facing hillside first. Let's see if there are any other clues about the location.

With huge stones had he built it, and set on it a coping of thorn. Without he had driven stakes the whole length, this way and that, huge stakes, set close together, which he had made by splitting an oak to the black core; and within the court he had made twelve sties close by one another, as beds for the swine, ....

Eumaios hut

South facing hill

Arethousa

Ok, not incredibly helpful, so we'll start by trying to find that south-facing hill, for which we'll first descend the hill south-east from Eumaios' hut where there's a path leading down. Let's take a look!

Eumaios doesn't spent the night in his hut, instead he sleeps near his pigs: