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Penelope In Odyssey's Odyssey
In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus took seven years to travel from Troy to Ithaca. Or was it eight years? Or more?
Odysseus must have wondered whether he would ever make it home?
“What man are you and whence,” asks Odysseus’s wife Penelope?
Why does Penelope ask, “Where is your city? Your family?”?
Penelope does not recognize Odysseus and asks who this stranger is?
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