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Happy birthday america mary pope osborne5/28/2023 ![]() The perfect addition to every family’s home library and.) It is only with the help of the gray-eyed goddess Athena that they can hope to ever become a family again. Back in Ithaca, Odysseus' wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, desperately fend off suitors who want to marry Penelope in order to take control of Odysseus' island. The beautiful goddess wants him to forget his wife and son and marry her, but he is determined to return home. Odysseus is trapped on the island of the sea goddess, Calypso. ![]() But the enchantress Circe tells him the Greeks will face even more horrors on their journey, including an encounter with Scylla, the six-headed monster, and Charybdis, the deadly whirlpool. Armed with warnings and advice from the ghost of the prophet Tiresias, Odysseus is determined to finally sail home to Ithaca. Odysseus and his men have done what no other mortals have done: returned alive from the terrifying Land of the Dead. Mary Pope Osborne retells thrilling stories from Homer's Odyssey, one of the greatest epics of all time. (Mary Pope Osborne retells thrilling stories from Homer's. ![]()
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