The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy

s, be driven from thy homeward way. To-morrow we will give thee a ship and an escort, and we will land thee in Ithaka, thine own country.' The Princes, Captains and Councillors,

l of wine as an offering to the gods. Then Odysseus rose up and placed in the Queen's hands a two-handled cup, and he said, 'Far

htway the mariners took to their oars, and hoisted their sails, and the ship sped on like a strong sea-bird. Odysseus slept. And lightly the ship sped on, bearing that man who

ugs, and still sleeping. They left him on the sandy shore of his own land. Then they took the gifts which the King and Queen, the Princes, Captains and Councillors of the Ph?acians had given him, and they set

land he had come to. He thought that the Ph?acians had left him forsaken on a strange shore.

f look like a young man. Odysseus arose, and questioned her as to the land he had come to. The goddess

know me, Pallas Athene, the daughter of Zeus, who has always helped thee?' the goddess said. 'I would have been more often by thy

in Ithaka, his own country-he knew the harbour and the cave, and the hill Neriton all covered w

and the woven raiment that the Ph?acians had given him. She made him sit beside her u

l treatment at the hands of men.' She told him about the wooers of his wife, who filled his halls all day, and wasted his substance, and who would slay him, lest he should punish them f

e his yellow hair grey and scanty. Then she changed his raiment to a beggar's wrap, torn and stained with smoke. Over his shoulder she cast the hide of a deer, and she put in

he went with Peisistratus, the son of Nestor, and came to his own ship. His ship was hailed by a man who was flying from those who would

ed at the daring act of the youth. 'He has gone to Sparta for help,' Antinous said, 'and if he finds that there are those who will help him we will not be able to stand against his pride. He will make us s

nt over the sea. There is a little isle between Ithaka and Samos-Asteris it is