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        <title><![CDATA[Well, this is an interesting question, but I don't think it can be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well, this is an interesting question, but I don't think it can be answered in the way you are thinking.  Odysseus was an old-school badass.  He fought the good fight at Troy and was victorious.  Had he gone home at that time to find his home infested with suitors he likely would have slaughtered them all out of hand, or he and his men would have dispatched with them.  You don't mess with a guy like Odysseus's wife.
An argument could be...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[If Odysseus had gone straight home from Troy and found his palace...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If Odysseus had gone straight home from Troy and found his palace infested by suitors, how would he have behaved? What would be the result?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:56:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The punishment of wandering was delivered in light of Odysseus'...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The punishment of wandering was delivered in light of Odysseus' actions.  For the Greeks, the soldier's honored return home was a representation of the highest of the blessings bestowed by the Gods.  Mortals entering battle prayed to the Olympians for a safe return home.  Odysseus' murder of Polympheus, and his hubris demonstrated at such an event incurs the wrath of Poseidon.  It is he, along with his brother Zeus, that determines that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2009 04:43:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is Odysseus made to wander in lands the range of human kind?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why is Odysseus made to wander in lands the range of human kind?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:01:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "Invocation," opens with the poet requesting help from his muse. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The "Invocation," opens with the poet requesting help from his muse.  He wants to discuss the story of Odysseus and the story opens in Mt. Olympias and the gods discussing the present affairs of man.  After the war (Troy) the soldiers all head home.  His men suffering from arrogance decide to steal the cattle of Apollo, the sun god and slaughter it and eat it.  This decision to eat the cattle of Helius (Apollo) angers the god and the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:42:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[He came to see many people's cities, where he learned their customs,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[He came to see many people's cities, where he learned their customs, while on the sea his spirit suffered many torments, as he fought to save his life and lead his comrades home. But though he wanted to, he could not rescue them— they all died from their own stupidity, the fools. They feasted on the cattle of Hyperion, god of the sun—that's why he snatched away their chance  10 of getting home someday. 
The first book of the Odyssey opens...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:29:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[According to the "Invocation" of "Book One" of "The Odyssey," Odysseus'...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[According to the "Invocation" of "Book One" of "The Odyssey," Odysseus' men do not reach home because?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:48:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What types of tones are being given in the Odyssey?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What types of tones are being given in the Odyssey?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:02:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Odysseus, with the help of Athena, Telemachus, and a couple of herdsmen,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Odysseus, with the help of Athena, Telemachus, and a couple of herdsmen, manages to kill all of the suitors. Then he must prove to Penelope that he really is her husband who has finally come home. She tests him by telling the maid to move a bed into the hall for him, but he points out that the bed cannot be moved because one of the posts is made of a live olive tree, a secret only the two of them and a maid know. The couple then is reunited...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:45:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What happens to Odysseus at the end of the story?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What happens to Odysseus at the end of the story?]]></description>
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