THE GODS IN COUNCIL—MIVERVA’S VISIT TO
ITHACA—THE CHALLENGE FROM TELEMACHUS
TO THE SUITORS.
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled
far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with
whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover
he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life
and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he
could not save his men, for they perished through their
own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god
Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching
home. Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of
Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.
So now all who escaped death in battle or by
shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he,
though he was longing to return to his wife and country,
was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him
into a large cave and wanted to marry him.
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