![]() Now Poseidon had gone off to 23 the Ethiopians, who are divided in two, the most remote of men: 24 some where Hyperion sets, others where he rises. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca even then, however, when he was among his own people, his trials were not yet over nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Poseidon, who still persecuted godlike Odysseus without ceasing and would not let him get home. 13 But he, apart from the others, though he was longing for his homecoming and for his wife, 14 was detained by the queenly nymph Kalypsō, who has her own luminous place among all the goddesses who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. Starting from any single point of departure, O goddess, daughter of Zeus, tell me, as you have told those who came before me.ġ1 So now all those who escaped precipitous death 12 were safely home, having survived the war and the sea voyage. So the god deprived them of their day of homecoming. 7 For they perished through their own deeds of sheer recklessness, 8disconnected as they were, because of what they did to the cattle of the sun-god Helios. 6 But do what he might he could not save his comrades, even though he very much wanted to. 4 Many were the pains he suffered in his heart while crossing the sea struggling to merit the saving of his own life and his own homecoming as well as the homecoming of his comrades. 3 Many different cities of many different people did he see, getting to know different ways of thinking. ![]() That man, tell me O Muse the song of that man, that versatile man, who in very many ways 2 veered from his path and wandered off far and wide, after he had destroyed the sacred citadel of Troy. Revised by Soo-Young Kim, Kelly McCray, Gregory Nagy, and Timothy Power
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