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The Odyssey /Book Critique. After ten years, Odysseus still has not returned
to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large and destructive mob ...
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After ten years, Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca. A large
and destructive mob of suitors who have taken over Odysseus’s palace and his land
continue to court his wife, Penelope. She has remained faithful to Odysseus though she
has no way of knowing weather he is dead of alive. Prince Telemachus, Odysseus’s son,
wants desperately to throw them out but does not have the confidence or experience to
fight them. The suitor Antinous plans to assassinate the young prince, to eliminate the
only thing keeping them from complete control over the palace.
Unknown to everyone, Odysseus is still alive. Calypso has Odysseus imprisoned
on her island, Ogygia, because she loves him. He longs to return to his wife and son, but
he has no ship or crew to help him escape. The gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus
debate Odysseus’s future. Athena, Odysseus’s strongest supporter among the gods,
resolves to help Telemachus and later Odysseus. Athena in disguise convinces the prince
to call a meeting of the assembly at which he reproaches the suitors. Athena also prepares
him for a journey to Pylos and Sparta, where he is informed that Odysseus is alive and
trapped on Calypso’s island. Telemachus makes plans to return home, while back in
Ithaca, the suitors prepare a plan to kill him when he reaches port.
On Mount Olympus, Zeus sends Hermes to rescue Odysseus from Calypso.
Hermes persuades Calypso to let Odysseus build a ship and leave. He finally sets sail, but
when Poseidon (god of the sea) sends a storm to wreck Odysseus’s ship. Poseidon has
had a grudge against Odysseus since the hero blinded his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus,
earlier in his travels....
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