How To Let Odysseus Die
“Let Odysseus live.” is what I demanded from my father one day ago immediately before he banished me from coming back into Olympus until the discussion of Odysseus’ fate ended. I know that the longer the discussion goes on, the more Odysseus will suffer. I try to not let any of my people, soldiers, suffer but I can’t do anything right now because my father, the great lightning god, Zeus. I wander down here, where the mortal soul’s breath, in Ithaca, a small island off the Greek mainland in the Mediterranean Sea. Sitting here I am watching the town in jubilee as they have just heard that the war with Troy has ended. Thanking the gods and praying for a safe return for their families the people of Ithaca know not of what won the war, the Trojan