The Rest Is History · 2026-07-15 · 67 min · 11,534 words

688. The Odyssey: Return of the King (Part 2)

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Let us now speed Hermes the guide. The slayer of Argos toward Ogigar Island, so that he can speedily announce your steadfast decision to the nymph of the beautiful braids. That a dacius Whose mind stands fast shall make his journey home. For my part.

I will embark for Ithaca, there to breathe purpose into his son, that I might instill a man's courage within his heart, and to make him call an assembly of the long haired Ithacans and tell all the suitors to go. Those men who never leave off slaughtering throngs of his sheep and his lumbering twisty horned cattle. To Sparta I shall send him and to Sandy Pylos, too, to learn whatever he can of his dear father's journey home, and to help him as well, to earn a noble renown among men. So that was Dame Edna Reverge. Uh Playing the goddess Athena.

And Athena is talking to her father Zeus, king of the gods. And this is in the first of the twenty four books that constitute Homer's great epic, The Odyssey. And as we were saying in our first episode. There is something very Australian. about the expedition of Odysseus and his men across the Aegean, barbecuing

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