. uld consent, andforget Ithaca. But his love of home was toostrong. Athene, who had always protectedhim, induced Zeus to promise that her favouritehero, notwithstanding the anger of Poseidon,should one day return to his native island, andtake vengeance on the suitors of carried to Calypso the command ofZeus to dismiss Odysseus. The nymphobeyed, and taught him how to build a raft[Diet, of Ant. art. Batis], on which, after re-maining eight years with her, he left theisland. In eighteen days he came in sight ofScheria,
. uld consent, andforget Ithaca. But his love of home was toostrong. Athene, who had always protectedhim, induced Zeus to promise that her favouritehero, notwithstanding the anger of Poseidon,should one day return to his native island, andtake vengeance on the suitors of carried to Calypso the command ofZeus to dismiss Odysseus. The nymphobeyed, and taught him how to build a raft[Diet, of Ant. art. Batis], on which, after re-maining eight years with her, he left theisland. In eighteen days he came in sight ofScheria, the island of the Phaeacians, whenPoseidon sent a storm which cast him off theraft. By the assistance of Leucothea andAthene he reached Scheria by swimming. Herehe slept on the shore, until he was awoke bythe voices of maidens. He found Nausicaa,the daughter of king Alcinous, who conductedthe hero to her fathers court. He was therehonoured with feasts, and the minstrel Demo-docus sang of the fall of Troy, which movedOdysseus to tears, and, being asked why he. Odysseus and the Sirens. (From a vase in the British Museum.) wept, he related his whole history. At lengthhe was sent home in a ship. One night as hehad fallen asleep in his ship, it reached thecoast of Ithaca; the Phaeacians who hadaccompanied him carried him on shore, andleft him. He had now been away from Ithacafor twenty years. During his absence hisfather Laertes, bowed down by grief and oldage, had withdrawn into the country; hismother, Anticlea, had died of sorrow ; his son,Telemachus, had grown up to manhood, and hiswife, Penelope, had rejected all the offers thathad been made to her by the importunatesuitors from the neighbouring islands. Forthe last few yeais more than a hundred noblesof Ithaca, Same, Dulichium, and Zacynthushad been suing for the hand of Penelope, andin their visits to her house had treated all thatit contained as if it had been their own. ThatOdysseus might be able to take vengeance uponthem,
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