Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca / Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece

itied him, and bade the winds become quiet. Two days and two nights Odysseus

he cried out: "O, luckless one! In vain have I braved the dangers of the sea to escape death. Now all hope has abandoned me, since there is no way for me to get out of the water. I fear that when I try to approach the land the

lay exhausted until the wave returned, when he was hurled again with great force back into the sea. Now the unfo

d he rose and untied the veil that Ino had given him and cast it back into the sea. Then he knelt down and kissed the earth, and moved to a sheltered sp

f up as one does an ember, lest it should go out. Athena came and poured s