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The Death Of Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey
When Odysseus finished his story,everyone was dumbfounded.Alcinos thought that the Phaeacians should get gifts for Odysseus to bring back home.Everyone agreed with this idea.Alcinous himself put the gifts in the boat himself while everyone else was preparing for a good-bye dinner for Odysseus.After eating Odysseus thanked Alicions for his generosity and prayed to the gods to bless the royal family with success and greatness.Odysseus walked to the shore where the boat was waiting to take him home.the crew had set up a bed for Odysseus so that he could sleep.The ship sailed quickly and smoothly to Ithaca.The crew got the boat into Phorcy,the Old Man of the sea which was in Ithaca.Poseidon saw this and was angry.Poseidon asked Zeus was he really going to let Odysseus off the hook so easily.Zeus then said …show more content…
Odysseus and Athena moved his treasures into a cave where they were hidden.After Athena told Odysseus more about the men who are living in his house.She helped him make a plan.Athena then disguised Odysseus as a old man and told him to visit his faithful servant that raises Odysseus’s pigs.While Odysseus listened to the men talk,Athena was going to help Telemachus get home.With that the two went their separate

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