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Zeus has decided that odysseus is to return.
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The plan is for Athena to help Odysseus and Hermes to announce Zeus' decision to Calypso.
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Athena is Disguised as Mentes, and begins to prepare Ithaca by convincing Telemachus to order the suitors out and to seek news of Odysseus in Pylos and Sparta.
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Telemachus involves the justice of Zeus to exhort the suitors to leave his house.
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Telemachus informs them on his plan to seek news.
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With the Aid of Athena (disguised as Mentor) he embarks for Pylos.
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Menelaus is blown off course towards Egypt.
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When Agamemnon eventually returns home, he is killed by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra, and they are killed in turn by Agamemnon's son Orestes.
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Athena (disguised as Mentor), departs, assuming the form of an osprey and Nestor knows he has been visited by her.
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Nestor’s son Peisistratus takes Telemachus to Sparta.
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they find a wedding feast in progress, celebrating the double wedding of Menelaus and Helen’s son and daughter
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Menelaus tells the story of how Proteus,the Old Man of the Sea revealed to Menelaus in Pharos that Ajax was dead.
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Helen drugs the wine to wash away their sadness.
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Menelaus relates how it was Odysseus alone that made the
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Telemachus tells Menelaus of the suitors and asks for news of Odysseus.
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Hermes announced to Calypso that Zeus has decided Odysseus is to return home.
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Odysseus builds a raft.
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Odysseus sails east towards Scheria.
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Poseidon realizes what is happening and brings a violent storm that wrecks the raft
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Odysseus and Calypso make love one last time.
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Odysseus drifts.
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The queen is being pleed to.
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A ship is commanded to be readied the next day.
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The guest is tiered so everyone goes to bed so they are rested for the next day
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Everyone wants to prove that they are good at more than just shipbuilding.
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Everyone starts throwing rocks
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King Alcinoos bragged of his young man's dancing
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They asked a rich city for plunder.
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The men are commanded to board the ship.
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They started to attack with a lot of force.
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They mourned the loss of their comrades.
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They found a land with a good harbor and fresh water.
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They were forced to leave because the land was so nice that he feared the men would never want to leave.
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The next morning they realized they had food so they all had a big feast.
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They discovered an Aeolia.
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King Aeolus had twelve perfect sons and daughters, whom he married to each other.
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King Aeolus was lord of the winds.
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They arrive at a black shore.
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The leader was told that he could only reach his home if he started disciplining himself and his men.
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A man was told to plant an oar to sacrifice to poseidon.
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King Minos wa spotted sitting in judgement over the damned.
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They returned to Aeaea, and burned the body of Elpenor.
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Circe sent them on their way, with good provisions and a following breeze.
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She also warned them about the dangers that lay on their route.
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When Poseidon spots Odysseus in Ithaca, he becomes enraged at the Phaeacians for assisting his nemesis.
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Athena announces that it is time for Odysseus to use his wits to punish the suitors
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Athena informs him that Telemachus has gone in search of news of him and gives him the appearance of an old vagabond so that no one will recognize him.
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Odysseus looks forward to leaving Scheria.
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Odysseus arrives at the swineherd's home in the forest.
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Odysseus almost gets attacked by dogs.
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Athena travels to Sparta.
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Telemachus announces his departure and accepts gifts from Menelaus and Helen.
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Odysseus's son Telemachus returns
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People begin to fight and start killing each other.
