Odysseus's ten-year voyage home from Troy — the original adventure story.
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The oldest adventure story in Western literature — and still one of the best. Homer's Odyssey invented the journey home as a form of human meaning.
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THE GODS IN COUNCIL—MINERVA’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…
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