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The kind Phaeacians(Book 13)
The Phaeacians help Odysseus home from Scheria after his long wanderings have ended, and after narrowly escaping the Charybdis. They load the ship with gifts and put Odysseus on board with them, and set sail. This quote supports the following, "Mighty Alcinous
dispatched a herald to conduct him to the sea
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The Phaeacians get punished by Poseidon.(Book 13)
The Phaeacians drop Odysseus off as he still sleeps from the long sail, as seen in this quote "first they took Odysseus out,
lifting him from the hollow ship still wrapped up
in the linen sheet and splendid blanket," from book 13,lines 137-139. They pack back up and sail back for their home. As they pull into the doc to bay their ship turns to stone and sinks because they helped Odysseus: Poseidon's nemesis, this is supported by lines 196-197. "Earthshaker came up
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Odysseus wakes up to Athena's mist over his mind.(Book 13)
Odysseus wakes up in a country he thinks hes never been before, (Which is actually Ithaca) he curses the Phaeacians for dropping him on another country than Ithaca. Though he does not know that this is Athena's mist over his mind, because his work is not done. This quote supports this by saying " He didn’t recognize just where he was.
He’d been away so long, and Pallas Athena,Zeus’ daughter, had shed a mist around him," book 13, lines 238-230. -
Odysseus faces the Aeusa
As Odysseus leaves the Swineherds house the next morning, he sees something in the woods. He goes to inspect, and as he gets closer the feared Aeusa grabs him by the feet; 12 feet off the ground. Odysseus bashes the monster with his staff in the only eye it has. Odysseus falls to the ground, and out of breath he pulls himself back up using the staff, and plunges the sharp end of his staff into the Aesua's foot making it fall forward on to the top end of his staff. -
Aeusa's body.
(continuation of the last entry) The staff plunges into the monsters brain though its eye. He lets go of the staff and the monster falls back, turning into water;This monster was sent by Poseidon. -
Odysseus meets the swineherd Athena wanted him to meet. (Book 14)
As Odysseus goes through his home, he meets his Swineherd servant, he invites Odysseus in after being attacked by the dogs;to dine with him, and the Swineherd sees a beggar not Odysseus. They exchange stories, and the Swineherd believes his master is dead, and Odysseus assures him he will see his master again very soon, as supported by this quote,"I won’t just tell you Odysseus will be back—
no, I’ll take an oath on it.", book 14 lines 197-198.
