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The Fate Of Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey
Odysseus’ life is always getting messed up because of the gods. He makes Poseidon mad, which causes all of his crewmates to die. Next, he gets stranded on an island with Kalypso, a goddess, who loves him and wants him to live on her island. He is stuck there for seven years before the gods even consider letting him go home.
“Now Zeus tells you to send him on his way with all speed. It is not appointed for him to die here, away from his people. It is still his fate that he shall see his people and come back to his house with the high rook and to the land of his fathers.’ … So now, you gods, you resent it in me that I keep beside me a man, the one I saved when he clung astride of the keel board all alone, since Zeus with a cast of the shining

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