The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy

rom Zeus a pledge that Odysseus would now be permitted to return to his own land. On that day she went to Ithaka, and, appearing to Telemachus, moved him, as has been told, to go on the voyage in s

lcons and owls and chattering sea-crows. Before the cave was a soft meadow in which thousands of violets bloomed, and with four fountains that gushed out of the ground and made clear stream

to see him on her Island, but as soon as he spoke of Odysseus and how it was the will of Zeus that

e. I do not hold him here because I hate Odysseus, but because I love him greatly, and would have him dwell with

return to his own land and to live with his dear wife, Penelope, and his son, Telem

Calypso, 'and I have no company o

and cross the sea-Zeus c

sea if it must be so,' Calypso said. Then

to the sea. By the shore Odysseus stayed, look

dysseus. The time has come when thou mayst depart from my I

to him at the dawn of the next day; she brought augers for boring and he made the beams fast. He built a raft, making it very broad, and set a mast upon it and fixed a rudder to guide it. To make it more secure, he wove out of osier rods a fence that went from stem to stern

n of water; corn and many dainties. She showed Odysseus how to guide his course by the star that some call the Bear and others the Wain, and she bade farew

the middle; the sail and the arm-yard fell into the deep. Then Odysseus was flung down on the bottom of the raft. For a long time he lay there overwhelmed by the w

nd who had pity upon him. Ino was her name. She rose from the waves in the like

there would be no hope for thee. But do what I bid thee and thou shalt yet escape. Strip off thy garments and take this veil from me and wind it around thy brea

sea and the waves closed over her. Odysseus took the veil and wound it around h

n a single beam as one holds himself on a horse, and then, with

e winds fell he saw land very near. He swam eagerly towards it. But when he drew nearer he heard the cras

towards a rock and to cling to it with both hands until the wave dashed by. Its backward drag took him and carried him back to the deep with the skin stripped fro

ed to the river. 'Hear me, O River,' was what he said, 'I am come to thee as a suppliant, fleeing from the anger of Poseidon, god of the sea. Ev

his mouth and nostrils. He lay on the ground without breath or speech, swooning with the terrible weariness that was upon him. But in a while his breath came back to him and his courage

not amongst what people I am come. And what shall I do with myself when night comes on? If I lie by the river in the frost and dew

t they made a shelter against the winds. He went and lay between them upon a bed of leaves, and with leaves he covered himself